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>figures with disputed historical relevance No serious person debates whether Washington was relevant to national history. We're debating whether good people
by Digory 5y ago
>figures with disputed historical relevance
No serious person debates whether Washington was relevant to national history.
We're debating whether good people today can praise the achievements of a person who held Washington's immoral views in the 1700s, without harming others.
- mansion7 5y agoA fair question would be: are other countries seriously considering erasing our historical heroes using judgments arrived at by modern day critical race/social justice theories, or just America? And why should USA be held to a different, more extreme standard than, say, India, China, Russia, Italy, Peru, Ecuador, Belize, etc?