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I think it’s a terrible idea to destroy statues.

Remove them from positions of admiration, but build memorials, museums that can become a record of history, where these memorials can be placed in proper historical context and be a source of knowledge of the past.

How many times have we commiserated about the destruction of great artworks, because they depicted a time or person we want to forget. Priceless artefacts have been lost to civilization over the centuries. Is this not what archaeology is all about?  A search for remains of ancient civilizations?

When placed in a museum the civilizations these artefacts represent can still be a source of connection to past ancestral civilizations for many people.

Aside from slavery (a worldwide practice) the colonial South did have some redeeming cultural values.  I think it is foolish to throw out the baby with the wash water.

‘History is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.’ (loosely translated from Philp K Dick)