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Originally Posted by blueash
Where are all those statues to Hitler and Stalin and Saddam here in the USA so we can remember our history?
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Statues are erected to commemorate people who did good, in the context of their time.
Times change; contexts change; but none of that is reason to expunge our history.
Most people are intelligent enough to appreciate that.
Take Alfred Nobel as an example. He made a lot of money and used it to fund a prize program that is benefiting science etc. over a century later. Yet the money was from his invention of dynamite, which has killed thousands of people, so some people want to remove all reminders of him. Will that bring those people back to life? Or should we appreciate that he continues to bring benefits to the World? I vote for the latter.