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If something is in the public space where people have to go to, it is somewhat of an idol, like a collective standard. But if the statue was moved and placed into context with possibly some insight or summary or story behind the object, then it can become a learning tool. I mean, I'm not gonna get too upset, you know, but I'm just saying we don't want to become extremist only for the other side to entrench themselves and have an existential fear. Like what I'm saying is, slavery might be over, but racism and all these isms still exist. It's all just misplacing blame and ignoring the class war. And let me correct myself. Endentured servitude is not over. Slavery still exists in the United States, and it seems it's coming back, but it's hidden and veiled In language, and low pay. Like I think we should move past all this in a way and just acknowledge that there is a class of people who use criminals around the world and domestically to manipulate us and get us to doing things that are against our own best interest as they get high on the hog.
I already know you are arguing disingenuously, but the context of the statues is hate. They were mostly erected LONG after the civil war to ensure black folks "knew their place" and to bolster Jim Crow.
All your crowing about "no war but class war" would go down a lot easier if not for your DeSantis-style insistence that we have to pretend all this shit didn't happen in order to do anything about the shit that IS happening. You are making maga talking points but dressing it up in "it's all a class war sheeple!"
https://www.history.com/articles/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confederate-monuments
Oh, well, we wouldn't want Republican voters to show us just how awful they can really be, would we? They might elect a despot who will run the country into the ground, dismantle our infrastructure, and run roughshod over the rights of US Citizens.
Further, anyone who sees the OP reaction to the burning of a plantation and feels their "side" has been aggrieved by that reaction is accidentally telling the truth about what "their side" actually stands for.