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Live: Removing the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond (Original Post)
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2021
OP
They should have just done it in the middle of the night instead of making a huge spectacle
SweetieD
Sep 2021
#3
Disagree. This was a reward to activists who had fought to get it removed for years.
WhiskeyGrinder
Sep 2021
#4
underpants
(182,585 posts)1. Ya!!
Duncanpup
(12,823 posts)2. Virgil said there goes the Robert e lee
seditionist scum the confederacy
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)3. They should have just done it in the middle of the night instead of making a huge spectacle
Of it and allowing crowds to gather. Do people worship this statue or something? Seems like way more importance is placed on this statue than necessary.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)4. Disagree. This was a reward to activists who had fought to get it removed for years.
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)5. Again it is having the opposite effect. Most people in the normal world do not care. Having
all this attention on it is giving it more importance than should be. There was some place in Tennessee last year that got rid of its confederate memorials at night. Now no one knows or cares.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)6. "Normal world"?
Now no one knows or cares.
I can assure you, people care whether confederate memorials are in the public square or in museums.