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Not your primary debater but sorry, Charlottesville bears some of the blame in not being more aware of and responsive to the issue. If they’d done more and made the tough (and in my view correct - though I don’t view Lee as a villain, merely don’t agree with his place in public spaces) decisions sooner we wouldn’t be having this conversation. We’d be arguing about UVA vs. UChicago or the merits of sororities, like a regular DCUM day. [/quote]This is a strange take.

Charlottesville's city council voted to get rid of the statues. Some white supremacists (I think the lawyer who wears old timey outfits) filed suit and there was an injunction. As the statue debate blew up in town, several other cities moved to get rid of their statues in rapid succession. Baltimore and New Orleans come to mind. There was a protest at the Silent Sam statue at UNC. A protest group took a statue in another NC city down with a rope.

I don't see Charlottesville as being late to the fight. I see them as being right in the trenches.[/quote]

They voted for this when? In the 21st century? Sorry, very late. You seem to be deploying the “he did it too” argument. [/quote]

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