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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The next statutes to go should be MLK who was huge womanizer and treated women poorly!!![/quote]

You guys are bad at analogies. Statues that honor people BECAUSE they were brutal colonizers or Confederate generals fighting for slavery should come down.

Statues that honor people for great accomplishments or leadership in great causes stay up even if they had personal flaws.

The point is WHY they are honored. This is not hard. [/quote]

Which is why Washington and Jefferson's statues are being assualted, even abolitionists, as well as the first black civil war regiment?
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Who is assaulting Washington and Jefferson? The only people mentioning them are the Confederate supporters idiotically saying they are the same. [/quote]

Please keep up with the news.

Jefferson statue vandalized a few days ago
https://www.kptv.com/news/demonstrators-pull-down-thomas-jefferson-statue-in-front-of-portland-high-school/article_73436e00-aecc-11ea-9077-d733d2846650.html

Washington Statue Vandalized
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/george-washington-statue-vandalized-in-chicagos-washington-park/2289627/

Shaw/54 mass memorial vanadlized
https://www.wbur.org/artery/2020/06/03/16-statues-memorials-damaged

WW2 Memorial, Lincoln Steps, and Revolutionary War General statue vanadlized
https://twitter.com/NationalMallNPS/status/1267124873085804544

Tomb of the unknown revolutionary soldier vandalized
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/06/12/tomb-of-the-unknown-soldier-of-the-american-revolution-vandalized-in-philadelphias-washington-square/[/quote]

“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
[i]Thomas Jefferson[/i]

Sounds like Thomas would be okay with folks keeping pace with the times and not clinging to old coats as we become more developed and more enlightened.[/quote]

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