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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get it on the Confederate statues and am sympathetic there.  Beyond that this is getting out of control.  There is not a right to just decide something offends you and you have some logic to defend that so you get to unilaterally decide to deface and destroy the public square.  It needs to be by community decision.

Are we going to just let mobs deface and destroy the Jefferson Memorial and the FDR Memorial.  We can each come up with lines of reasoning why XYZ person should not be honored.  The mob cannot be allowed to be judge, jury, and executioner.[/quote]

This is a thread about Christopher Columbus statues. You think a pass should be granted to the man who began genocide in the Western Hemisphere? You think people just “disagree” with the fact that they stole children for repeated rape? You think cutting off people’s hands so they bled to death was laudatory?[/quote]

I think it should be decided by the community through our political and governmental process.  If we take that route and decide to remove or replace Christopher Columbus statues then so be it.  That is part of living in civil society.  I value that more than re-litigating 15th century history through mob violence.  [/quote]

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