2/ First of all, statues are not really about history. They’re not. They never were. That’s not their PRIMARY function or purpose.
1/ You’re going to hear a lot this week that removing statues is “erasing history”. That’s utter nonsense. Here’s why. (thread)
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3/ If the primary function of statues were to preserve history, we’d have statues of everything. But we don’t. That’s not their purpose.
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Monuments of men of the Confederacy are not artifacts of the Civil War. They are monuments of Jim Crow, Segregation and White Supremacy
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Also they're cutting funding and removing regulations to protect cultural heritage sites and archaeology research, so no.
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Biggest push for statues was in 1920s in a prop campaign for Jim Crow funded by the Daughters of the Confederacy. Second biggest was 1960s.
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They're mass produced pieces of junk (notice how easy that one in Durham went down?) and there purpose is to revise history not honor it.
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In Hungary there is an outdoor exhibit of communist statues.They found the middle-ground.They are down but collected for history education
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Easily my favorite follow on Twitter. And given how invested in sports I am, thats saying a lot. Keep up the great work Charles!
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I agree 100%. Very eloquent.
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