> 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

> 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.