Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[FatAndFaithless]

Ah, the good ole 'Damn kids these days' canard.  And you do realize that it isn't only young people that want to move the statues...right?

And removing a statue is hardly 'genocide on a meme' or 'squashing free speech.'  Open a book, go to a museum, watching a documentary, and stop being so sloppily hyperbolic.

What has changed about the world in the past few years that merits the removal of statues that may have stood for a hundred?  Has the history become more immediate?  Has the issue of slavery become more critical?

What does the length of time they've stood have to do with anything?  If your primary concern is the age of a historical artifact, then stick it in a museum, not on a public pedestal (literally). Many, many of these statues were constructed during the civil rights movement as an explicit warning/threat to blacks.  As black people have gotten more voice/rights/capability in our society (which is still lacking, by the way), these issues have come up again several times recently (Charleston, maybe?), so yes, the issues behind these statues and the beliefs that both their constructors and honorees held have become more relevant lately.

And what rights are we giving up?  This isn't a Constitutional issue at all - it's up to the town.  You can agree or disagree with with their decisions either way, but calling people who want to move or remove the statues as 'morally weak' or 'committing genocide on ideas' or 'squashing free speech' is fucking ridiculous man.  What would you call the people that brandish nazi and confederate flags in support of keeping the statues up?  I don't know when you went off the deep end, Benny, but damn dude.