Maybe we should stop mentioning biographies of the men portrayed in targeted statues — absent a vote by a governing body, NO ONE has the “right” to tear down or vandalize ANY statue on public land. Period.
Tearing down a statue of someone just because they were born a long time ago is the ultimate form of 'ageism'. Tearing it down just because they shared their era's ethical blind spots is the ultimate 'Presentist Fallacy'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_historical_analysis) …
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That’s a tough one for me. Someone like Washington was clearly a capable leader and thinker, so he needs to be held to a higher standard than most. Especially if he deserves a statue, abolitionism was an idea emerging, and was a revolutionary in other ways.
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Don't bother appealing to leftist morality. They don't believe in moral universals anyway. Also they tend to use moral justification to achieve desired material goals. The goals come before the moral premise to justify the actions.
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Only right wingers believe in rule based moral systems. It's one reason they have such a hard time opposing the left.
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It depends on when the statue was put up and why. Most confederate statues in the south were put up 50-80 years after reconstruction as an aggressive response to burgeoning civil rights movements. Historical context matters, and rarely references just one time and place at once.
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Does "because they were born a long time ago" really capture the motivation behind bringing down the statues? When selecting what parts of our past to commemorate in marble, we need not be concerned that the best people were not representative of their times.
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It isn't presentist to build statues of people who had fewer ethical blindspots than their peers, or refuse to build ones of those with more. Monuments are meant to memorialize the best parts of our past (this is precisely the spirit in which the Confederate statues were erected)
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