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In reply to the discussion: What should happen to Confederate Statues? [View all]SWBTATTReg
(24,604 posts)public dollars back (if government owned) and use the proceeds solely for good, scholarships to kids, etc., but if privately owned, then the statues need to be removed from public grounds/public display by the owners (Daughters of the Confederacy, whomever, to do as they chose, kind of like what happened earlier when a wave of these statues were removed recently (last five years or so).
Like the nazi memorabilia, a lot was destroyed, some went into museums so future generations can understand for themselves the disgusting attributes of the Nazi regime. There's always going to be a market for such items unfortunately. At least get some money out of it.
This is a hard question to answer, such as the one question that has been asked in the past, what to do w/ all of the Nazi medical research that went on in prison / labor camps? Most, if not all of the answers I have seen on this (medical research derived from such sources) is to destroy that work, which I agree w/.
Things have a habit of being rediscovered again and again if they are worth it, thus any so called 'medical' advances made by the Nazi medical research will be discovered again. I say this because a lot of discoveries made of various things seem to come in groups, e.g., multiple groups at the same time discovered things etc., so I don't worry anymore that such gee whiz advances are super critical, they're not.
Destroying the statues seem to rank censorship in a fashion, and I don't condone censorship, but at least get some good out of these items, but don't display in a public place, there are other far more valuable things or far more better people to display than these hateful items.
However, if voices cry out for these hateful items to be destroyed, I won't stop them. I want my friends to be satisfied and happy w/ how these hateful symbols of our country's past are handled, and if being destroyed is what they want, then be it.