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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Congrats on the degree. Explain to me how you take a confederate memorial and turn it into "something educational." And why that is preferable to removing them and replacing them with memorials for black people. [/quote]

Ever been to Auschwitz or Dachau? They weren't removed. They were left there for an education and a warning.[/quote]

This is not a good comparison. There are thousands of Confederate monuments across the South--most of which were erected in the early 20th century during the Jim Crow laws. The context was simple: they were meant to intimidate African American citizens and twist Confederate ideology into something more noble. Obviously these tactics were super successful because people have actually conflated the biased rhetoric with an accurate account of "history."

So, sure some monuments and plantations could be transformed into markers of racist ideology and physical violence against African Americans, but it's a waste of resources to re-contextualize all of them. Just take them down and put them in graveyards, where the ideologies belong. [/quote]

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