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They should create a new Smithsonian museum in D.C. and fill it with all these controversial monuments instead of melting them. Call it the Museum of American B
by cainxinth 3y ago
They should create a new Smithsonian museum in D.C. and fill it with all these controversial monuments instead of melting them. Call it the Museum of American Bigotry or something like that. I'm being perfectly serious in that suggestion.
Scrubbing our misdeeds from history isn't as bad as valorizing them, but it is still a form of denial that prevents us from learning from our past and growing as a society.
- mcphage 3y ago> Scrubbing our misdeeds from history isn't as bad as valorizing them, but it is still a form of denial that prevents us from learning from our past and growing as a society Given those statues were built to valorize our misdeeds, I don't think getting rid of them qualifies as scrubbing our misdeeds from history—it merely brings us back to zero.
- cainxinth 3y agoIt was a misdeed putting up the statue in the first place. We shouldn't pretend that didn't happen. We should acknowledge it and call it out for being a mistake.