So the statues belong in museums and history textbooks, not the public square: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/19/destroying-confederate-monumen

So the statues belong in museums and history textbooks, not the public square: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/19/destroying-confederate-monuments-isnt-erasing-history-its-learning-it/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/19/destroying... It feels tired to still be repeating this when so many others have said it, but Germany is capable of learning about Hitler and Nazism without the monuments glorifying it; Americans can learn about Robert E. Lee without the whitewashed monuments everywhere. And anyway, there was none of this clutching of pearls about history-erasure when the Saddam Hussein statue was toppled in Baghdad in 2003.