Baltimore removes 4 statues over night

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(08-22-2017, 06:33 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Right, we fought our deadliest war ever, as a Nation over it.  We decided it was wrong, we outlawed it, and moved forward.  I would just like to see the removal, putting into a museum, or what ever, come from the course of logical decision making through public process, rather than succumbing to an "angry" mob and a bought and paid for media.  That's all.

You'll get no argument from me, that the time has long passed since when those Confederate statues should have been removed from non-historical sites.  But doing it from the demands of a mob (one that I don't even think is homogenous) is not the way to do things.  In my mind, that is the equivalent of municipalities caving in to the demands of domestic terrorists.

I used the MLK analogy, because it was so absurd, after all the great work he did in his lifetime.  And to point out that even the best humans are likely to have "undesirable" traits or characteristics about them.  So, if the gay community were to start rioting and demanding removal of MLK statues and thoroughfares, should we cave into their demands as well?

Those Nazis gathered in Charlottesville because they were discussing removing the statues via the public process. The "angry mob" was mostly locals opposing them. In Baltimore, the commission that approved removing them was established years ago. The mayor decided to not wait for state approval and did the right thing. If there was an "angry mob" they were worried about, it was the Nazis opposing the removal of these statues.