Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[Gawdzilla Sama]

People don't get their history from statues.

To an extent, we do. The first time I ever heard of the Holocaust was from seeing a statue on my local village green dedicated to the Holocaust and the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising, ultimately leading to an obsession I still study today. I honestly think it's possible that a statue can nudge someone in the right direction, especially, if it acknowledges both sides of the controversy on a plaque.

That said, I still think that statue on the village green could benefit from a mention of the 60 million Germans who just went along with Hitler as well as the 6 million who died.

Quibble. You got a clue and actually followed up on it. You are the exception, very much the exception. Most people thing Stalin and Genghis Kahn were classmates in school.

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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?

We have finally come to grips with the idea that the KKK paid for those statues with the intent of reminding the Negros where their place was in society. Should we continue that tradition?