This purge is no different than what ISIS, the Taliban, and Al Qaeda have been doing. It’s a sign of a mental disorder.
Hey, if they’re going to eliminate statues, shouldn’t they eliminate books, school books, all government references, movies, news reports, museum or historical references?
Once this is done, those who wish to can simply deny it ever happened.
After all, where would the proof be?
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
NAZIs did it. Communists did it and do it. Totalitarinas must eradicate all knowledge of history lest people understand that their schemes are unworkable or at least lead only to famine and slavery for those not in The Party. And even the ruling Oligarchy must shrink as resources collapse and fewer and fewer of them can live in splendour.
Here ya go. Funny, we condemned ISIS and celebrate Antifa.
It is a sign of a cultural movement that seeks to embed itself by erasing all history of anything prior to it, so that people cannot center around historical monuments or have reminders of the past.
Islam has done this repeatedly, from the Buddhas of Bamiyan to ISIS destroying artifacts in museums. The fundamentalists who wanted to destroy the pyramids were told no by the state because tourism was too important to average Muslims’ survival.
The Great Leap Forward in China did exactly this, while the French Revolution had similar demands down to changing the calendar.
Social justice warriors are one more totalitarian ideology seeking not only total control of the present but erasure of the past to tighten control.