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Originally Posted by chowhou
Like I said before, absolutely no one of sound mind is going to argue that we should remove Jefferson from the history books, but maybe he was an asshole who doesn't deserve a statue? Is that an unreasonable idea? I think famous politicians of recent history like Stalin or Kissinger are incredibly important historical figures based on how their decisions shaped the modern world, but these are not men that ought to be honoured with statues. Leave their stories to the history books.
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Absolutely. Question is, where do we draw the line between "deserving" and "undeserving?" Everybody's got flaws.
I mean, do they dynamite Jefferson's Memorial and his Mount Rushmore head and take him off the $2? If slavery's the qualifier, do we move on to Washington and Grant? And what do we do about the slavery advocate in the middle of Trafalgar Square? And then ten years from now, we're going to have some group say that non-racism is the qualifier (in which case even Lincoln and
Einstein are on the chopping block) and so on and so forth... there does have to be a limit somewhere.
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