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Where does the Confederate purge go to next?

When the statues are all gone, the schools and streets are all renamed, what is left?
[b]Books.[/b]
I predict any Confederate related books that don't fit the narrative of all southerners being racist white supmremacists will be removed from the public libraries.
Probably burned in big ole bonfires.
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Joaquin · 36-40, M Best Comment
"[i]As a historian the hardest part of my job is that I am constantly building statues, as statues are the only way people learn about history. Little known fact, but most of what you learn when you pursue a PhD in history is actually just how to build and install statues. Just the other day I was discussing dissertation ideas with my advisor and she said "pick a different topic, there isn't a statue of this." The phrase "pre-history" derives from a German word meaning "periods of history that didn't leave statues behind so who knows what happened". Last year I did a ton of archival research only to have a conference reject my paper for: "failure to cite a statue." Harsh but fair! How do we know that Don Quixote and Rocky are real historic figures, and not fictional characters? Easy: because there are statues of them! How do historians know that F. Kafka's father was a terrifying headless monster and that Franz rode on his shoulders? Because of the statue. There are some who ask "which came first: the history or the statue?" But those people are philosophers and you should probably ignore them. Some argue that you can learn about history from books & other non-statue materials. But who has ever heard of learning from a book? No one! If a statue comes down it becomes impossible to know what happened in the past. No historian will dare make a claim without statue evidence. Don't we all know the famed adage: "if you want to be remembered, do something important - but also build a statue of it"?We do! Historians have been calling for a return to "statue based" education for years, but skills like "looking at statues" have been devalued. In conclusion: taking down statues permanently alters the space-time continuum (unless you build a statue of the other statue coming down).[/i]"
~Shipwreck

Get a clue!! [c=#BF0000][b]THIS ISN'T ABOUT STATUES!!!!![/b][/c]
Niburu · 51-55, M
@Joaquin Very true, this not about statues.
It's about power, revenge, pride in ones family history, political leverage, getting your face on youtube, it's an excuse for various groups to have the fights they've been dreaming of.
And the list goes on.
The statues are just inanimate objects.

Look into who Matthew Fontaine Maury was before you mindlessly advocate tearing his monument down.