Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America

[Rev. Rye]

And yet the people who built them are no longer around, and thanks to this, the meaning of said statues is free to be changed.

No, the South fought to keep slavery, that is not subject to change.

Did I say the reasons for the war change with time? Honestly, the ideology you've presented in these posts is a big example of the problem I despise: a Manichean view of history, the assumption of clear-cut villains and heroes fighting over good and evil. The problem is that the world doesn't work like that, especially when it comes to politics, and even though the Civil War was fought with the express purpose of keeping slavery alive, this doesn't necessarily mean everyone who fought was working for that express purpose (I've also mentioned a major disconnect between why many Confederate soldiers, up to and including Lee, fought and why the Confederacy split off in the first place), and the assumption that they must is ultimately one facet of a fundamentally dangerous understanding of the world, one that isn't really that different from those protesters who sent Charlottesville into a state of emergency. It's just that you see him as a villain, they see him as a hero, and I see someone whose legacy is very complicated and interesting to suss out.

Some historical person did something bad? Destroy them! Nothing of value can be gained from them! Honestly, if we worked from this example, ultimately, the past would be nothing but a series of evil people doing deeds for evil reasons.