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Should confederate monuments be removed

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Yes

Yes but put in a museum

342 votes

Anonymous 21h

I think they should stay if the people in those places want them to stay; it tells me what places aren’t safe

Anonymous 22h

some of them should be relocated to a museum but there's way more confederate monuments than museums that they could go to

Anonymous 20h

To me confederate statues are like having a Hitler statue in Berlin for the sake of history

Anonymous 2h

As someone who spent four years researching the history of slavery in my town that was fairly unknown before, I’d say a museum is the best option. Our future will never change if we erase our history, because we need to learn from it. However, i can imagine it’s really disheartening for certain groups to see statues that represent such hate every single day

Anonymous

#2 20h

Tbh very true, didn’t think of this

Anonymous

#3 20h

I’ve made my own green book lmao

Anonymous

#2 20h

Idea: b default, 10 (or some #) years after a monument is erected, there’s an automatic ballot proposition in the district’s next local election, for whether or not to keep it

Anonymous

#2 20h

Agreed. As much as I think they don’t deserve to celebrate the confederacy, it truly does show what kind of people are the majority in a place and if I as a minority individual would be safe

Anonymous

#2 15h

Alternate perspective: Conferderate memorials normalize Confederacy worship for future generations and make it harder for these unsafe spaces to change for the better

Anonymous

#7 10h

The normalization process has already been completed, and I wouldn’t risk my safety by banking on the notion that just because the statue is gone that the culture “might” have since changed from the way it had been for north of two hundred years