Time brings a certain neutrality to history which cannot be expected to exist whilst its effects are still being felt.
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We can have public attractions like The London Dungeons featuring The Inquisition because that danger is long gone.
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We can see it as reminder of the danger of theocracy or any ideological enforcement & of man's inhumanity to man.But specific source is gone
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Mostly people wander around it and get a pleasurable thrill of horror. Because they are safe from it. The Inquisition is not coming back.
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Unthinkable to have an 'attraction' for the holocaust. Its impact is still felt by individuals & in sickening antisemitic rhetoric.
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History needs to take a different tactic here. A different attitude is needed. The artifacts & records need to be displayed differently.
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Museums and memorials needed to educate and pay tribute to the dead. With London Dungeons can take photos of self grinning in torture device
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History is important but so is the present day & this decides how we approach history and how we present it.
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Today's values and culture should never make us massage the facts of history but they should & do affect the attitude we take to them.
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Respectfully disagree -- their prominence IS their value -- as an ongoing reminder of human progress. Don't remove them, RE-LABEL them...
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Would that be enough right now in the current climate? Maybe in the future when that progress is more secure.
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Another argument against revisionist action. This is now, but time is long. The difference between reactive and responsive.
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I think a pragmatic response based on the current reality would be to preserve the statues but remove them from current location.
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many people see the confederacy as an army fighting for slavery. History has kind of glossed over much of the other issues they fought for.
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Yes, because it is read through contemporary lenses. In the future, this will change and destruction of statues could well be regretted.
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It's why I'd promote museums & oppose destruction by mobs.
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So filling in those blanks is important, but while that is being done, yeah, maybe move them to a place where context is emphasised.
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We are in full agreement.
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I think they should be kept where they are but have informational stuff put around them to let people know what those traitorous fucks did.
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An idea but might be too soon even for this.
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I don't think 152 years after Confederacy fell is too soon. Plus the Civil War is one of the most important parts of American history.
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