re: Historical monuments okay or not

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I'm looking for a picture of it.

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Good for you. Still doesn't answer why statues of him are okay, even if it's in a public square. He murdered countless people. Commited genocide. Was racist. Yet we immortalize him.

Either we judge all historical figures by today's standards. Or we accept that they were of a different time where things were different. It's quite easy. And to say oh this statue is bad because he's a racist and fought for slavery, yet completely ignoring statues of men who committed straight up genocide and mass enslavement is both asinine and highly hypocritical.