I don't think it's right that they're being removed, but at least they have their councils voting on it, by people the citizens of the town have elected.
Instead of vigilante mobs just deciding to tear stuff down they don't like.
That's not me saying I agree with it but it makes it more palatable than the hate mobs of lefties taking the law into their own hands.
That's not to say that if the council votes the way they don't like they wouldn't rip the statues down anyway. I'd predict that 100% but that's a different debate when that happens.
Why shouldn't they be removed? Are you aware of their real history? It's not a battlefield history.
Most of those monuments were commissioned, mass produced, and put out well after the Civil War. States that did not even exist (or that were Union) were "gifted" with these monuments.
In our country at least, monuments to war dead are typically placed in cemataries or battlefield sites. These were not. Why...?
Most of these tributes weren't built until the era of Jim Crow, and they largely symbolize a romanticized version of Antebellum racism, not the Civil War dead.
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