08-17-2017, 02:18 PM -
I'm not convinced that tearing down statues is appropriate, but comparisons with ISIS and the Nazis are probably more ridiculous. Especially at a time when people are marching about with actual swastika banners. There's no equivalence there.
These people, at least in many cases, have been petitioning government for some time to no effect. And the idea that every problem can be solved with 'conversation and consensus' is just objectively false.
That confederate soldiers were conscripted strikes me as irrelevant for two reasons:
1) We're talking about statues of their generals.
2) I don't think that confederate sympathisers will win this argument by appealing to the forced labour of their ancestors.
These people, at least in many cases, have been petitioning government for some time to no effect. And the idea that every problem can be solved with 'conversation and consensus' is just objectively false.
That confederate soldiers were conscripted strikes me as irrelevant for two reasons:
1) We're talking about statues of their generals.
2) I don't think that confederate sympathisers will win this argument by appealing to the forced labour of their ancestors.