re: Rapid mob of liberals pull down Confederate statue in Durham

I'll ask again.

id also love for some clarification on where the line is to be drawn on statue removal. as ive already said, all great men in history are really, really, horrible men. Caesar? killed hundreds of thousands and enslaved just as many. alexander the great? same. the founders of damn near every country were horrible men who did horrible things to people. yet here we are, glorifying every single one of them. So, where does the line end? do we forgive julius caesar for his horrible transgressions against the gauls and other "barbarians"? Do we forgive Washington for his slaves?

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There is no place for honoring confederate warriors in public places. Like it or not, they were fighting for turning apart the union and allowing people to be owned as property

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How about all of the statues of history's greatest men? Caesar enslaved and killed many times over the amount of people as the confederacy. Should we tear down his statues? How about Washington? He fought to create a country which depended on slave labor. How about the founders of damn near every country on the globe?

Every man who is remembered and immortalized throughout history have done far more and far worse atrocities than even the worst confederate general whom has a statue.

Where do you draw the line?

Mount Rushmore? Slave owners and racist. Lincoln statue? Devout racist who wanted to send all the former slaves to south America and the Caribbean where they would have ended up on plantations that made the cotton plantations of the south look like 5 star resorts.

What statues do you think are acceptable? Why is a statue of Caesar okay, yet Robert E Lee is not?

Either all statues of slave owners and people who displaced families, killed countless innocents. And committed outright genocide need to come down. Or you're a massive hypocrite. Which is it.