I feel saying it's ok to tear down one statue, but not an other is wrong. Who is going to make the arbitrary line to decide where it stops?
Either it's ok to tear down them all if it offends you in some way, or it's not ok to tear down any. It's impossible to say where one is ok and another is not. Nobody will ever be in agreement. And once we start looking the other way when they start tearing them down, we are fooling ourselves if we think they will stop just there.
It's no different than allowing small parts of our rights to be stripped away. Once we allow that, they will never be happy and only want more. And one day we will wake up and find that we've allowed it to go too far, and it will be very hard if not impossible to go back.
I feel you but I have a hard time justifying devoting time and attention toward ensuring some statue of a confederate (or every other random statue littered across the country) I've never heard of doesnt get removed and if I don't, I'm paving the road to having all my rights trampled.
I'd like to know who "they" are so I can actively oppose them if necessary but it just feels like a nebulous ghost where this shit picks up steam and the next thing you know, statue x, y & z gotta come down and I don't know who was responsible making this happen.
To me, statues are more government nonsense that I'd prefer time and money not be devoted to. I want resources allocated to the most important things like ideas, truth, infrastructure, the military, schools (I guess), etc, etc
Is it that radical to think government shouldn't be wasting time praising themselves with monuments, etc in the first place and they are therefore not worth fighting for?
Cant we find better things or issues to go to war over?
The discussion has the same tenor as ones had with evangelicals who are deathly afraid of teaching birth control to their kids because they act like if they're taught BC, they'll immediately go from being virgins to fucking like rabbits.
Both arguments seem extreme but having read a lot about WW2 and the rise of the nazi party I always wondered how they were able to pull off what they did and get the masses on board. Was it insidious things like removing statues that were ignored and then something else and then something else? I think it was a lot of little things and a crushed economy post WW1 plus resentment for that loss and the treaty of Versailles but it was probably a lot of subtle things too.
As it relates to what we're going through now, what concerns me the most is the air of censorship floating in the air across the entire country, that concerns me FAR more than any statue because once people are afraid to speak and group think takes hold, all manner of nonsense and worse can and will follow
