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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.

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In Ukraine and the Baltic countries, they took down statues of Lenin and put up statues of their own heroes. No history was lost, though there is controversy over some of their own monuments, because of the complicated history of the region. Of course, there are some monuments - to massacres and other horrendous events - whose removal would constitute a great erasure of history.

I think the question now is "Do we want it here?" Taking out all the Confederate monument would amount to a denial of a part of Southern (and American) history, but people in each location or institution are going to have to decide for themselves whether they want it in their yard. That means there will be pressure on the cities, towns, and institutions that really want to keep the statues after other places have gotten rid of them, but if a college really wants to remove a statue from public view, can you really stop them?