The Orwellian truth what the anti-American, statist, totalitarianism loving, communist Pogster is working on diligently:The statue removal and rewriting of history amounts to nothing more than revenge.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
George Orwell
A statue or monument is in no way "the past", retard. It represents a snapshot of some figure or event, in effect a community's opinion on who or what that community finds honorable or laudable. It may be a biased perspective, it may or may not be accurate. Take North Korea for instance --- monuments everywhere, not a whole lot of historical accuracy. Would it "erase history" to take down monuments that claim the US invaded Korea and the valiant Kim Il Sung fought them off?
As a snapshot it by definition cannot convey context. And context is crucial. That's where the history books come in, and why monuments can never hope to compete with them. A monument that actually presented the relevant context would take up the side of a building and take all day to read, so you might as well read it in a book.
As a monument represents a community's opinion of what's honorable, that community's descendants may decide, upon further historical review, that their opinion is different. And "upon further review" means, again, context. So today's community may decide what yesterday's community found honorable --- isn't.
Know what happened to the Dulles bust at the Dulles airport? Know what happened to the plaque marking the building where the Ku Klux Klan was founded? Covering, hiding or moving these things in no way declares or implies that John Foster Dulles or the Klan never existed. They imply the community associated with them doesn't find it an attractive spotlight.
And that's their business.
It's idiotic and ignorant to compare Robert E. Lee to the Nazis and the Baathists.
It might be, depending on the context. That's got nothing to do with anything I posted since I invoked zero of those entities.
What I DID put there are depictions of people removing monuments because they no longer represent what the locals believe in. Which is exactly what I just described.
See, I figure text is over some people's heads, so I used pictures. Apparently I was right.
The amazing part: neither of those actions "erased" Saddam Hussein or Nazi Germany from history.
Who knew.
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