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Old 06-13-2020, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by oldtimes View Post
No there aren't but they have not tried to completely eradicate it either.

Take a lesson: How Germany handles monuments from Nazi and communist eras
Per your link...

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- The overdue momentum to remove various Confederate symbols, especially about 1,500 statues, from their perches has picked up across the country

- Not out of concern for the preposterous right-wing lament about the erasure of history, but because the task at hand is to purge the imagery in a way that guards against amnesia, while also transforming the statues from celebratory monuments to objective evidence.

- Over the last 70 years, the country has accepted a simple truth: Out of sight hardly means out of mind. The removal of the relics of a hateful social order is not in itself cause for celebration. It is the aftermath that matters.
What decent American could argue...with ANY of that?


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