You see a fair amount of people complaining about tearing down monuments is somehow erasing history. A monument honors the person it depicts. History is what happened.
The issue is when a monument actually honors someone who committed treason or enslaved people or deliberately infected native Americans with deadly diseases. If the monument portrays them as heroes is that history or a historical lie?
They do offend some people and they should not be on public space.
They represent traitors and oppressors who may have also had some good qualities.
After all, Mussolini got the trains to run on time.
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