[Steve_Seattle]

"But some of those statues could have performed a public service, as reminders of past errors, and warnings that such errors must not be repeated."

And statues of past figures - especially political figures - could remind us that in human affairs perfection is not to be found, even among the saints.

Destroying all remnants of the past on the grounds that the past was imperfect, and was formed by flawed human beings, is extremely dangerous, because it suggests that those doing the destroying regard themselves as infallible judges and executioners, and these are the most dangerous people of all, and the most murderous, as 100 years of Marxist communism has shown us.

[oincobx]

>>>”But some of those statues could have performed a public service, as reminders of past errors, and warnings that such errors must not be repeated.”

Well, despite the presence of Confederate statues across the South, the error of depriving Black Americans of their basic liberties continued in the form of Jim Crow laws and lynchings. It was another hundred years before the right to vote and other blessings of Liberty were provided to Black Americans. Apparently, those statues didn’t sufficiently convey the errors of those that were portrayed, because those errors were repeated for generations.