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The real reason the statues are being torn down is that they represent:
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This should have been option 4.
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What happens when they turn their sights on mt. Rushmore ?
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They'll realize that Mt. Rushmore is _much_ larger than they realized.
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Nihilistic hate of the imperfect past fueled by judgement from an abstract murky ideal, which is either possible, or realistic. An utopian impulse for purity to reign on earth & for them to judge all others by their standards. An explosive revolutionary desire that leads to hell.
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Something else: white people
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Whiteness
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An assertion of power by people who feel powerless.
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Given that there's multiple people doing the pulling down, presumably there's not a single "real reason".
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That said, I’m actually in favor of many Confederate war monuments coming down, but we should do so via democratic processes rather than a spontaneously generated mob of vandals.
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Reasonable view. Let reasonable public discussion & democracy do their things.
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