Is it wrong to remove Confederate statues?

Removing these monuments and statues seems like white washing the past to me. There have even been significant calls to tear down the statue of Christopher Columbus in New York because of the way he treated natives. Forgetting your past, no matter how dark it is, is not the way to deal with issues today. What do you think?

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bijouxbroussard · F

There is no danger of it being forgotten. And this is why we have [b]museums[/b] and why history is supposed to be taught in our schools, anyway. Those statues were not erected to remind us of an evil, their purpose (as many appeared during the Civil Rights movement) was by segregationists attempting the reassertion of white supremacy---the same reason the marchers and alt-right groups are fighting to keep them up [b]today[/b].
The "white-washing" as you call it, is pretending that these were [b]heroes[/b] who deserve statues and memorials, rather than traitors who didn't [b]want[/b] to be a part of the U.S. if slavery was going to be abolished. Or, in the case of Columbus, someone who opened the door to genocide of an entire group of people.
Hitler is a part of history. But Germany at least has the decency not to still celebrate him.