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I don’t see why current students should be the decision makers. They’re temporary.

So were the people who put up the statues.

It should just be explained to them that you shouldn’t try to erase history, it will only provide fertile ground to repeat it. It should stay as a discussion point at least.

Or a rallying point? The students are probably thinking history is more likely to be repeated if the statue stays up.

[fuzzylogic]

You can go to any country on the planet and see statues of things that have a very shady history. Getting rid of them due to some politically correct “offense of the moment” would result in erasing much of it.

Bad idea.