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[Dill]

(06-23-2020, 11:08 AM)masonbengals fan Wrote: Society...I'm having trouble finding people on this board even willing to condemn what is to me totally illogical destruction. When Grant's monument was vandalized one poster on here rationalized it was because there weren't enough monuments to minorities. How about that line of thinking. Tear down heroes because other heroes aren't memorialized.  What that gets you is no heroes. Instead of tearing down be positive, build something that deserves to be built. Perform some act of kindness. Do the right thing. Turn Floyd's tragic death into something good for god's sake. Honor him by building not tearing down.  I'm doing a lot of talking about statues but it's just a analogy. I'll never see most of these statues but it doesn't mean I won't condemn the actions of a mob that can't distinguish right from wrong.

I agree there is no justification for taking down the Grant statue, though I have not heard from the people who did it.

So I'll go on record as willing to condemn that (so far) "totally logical destruction."

But I am not willing to ignore the reason the confederate/KKK leader statues have been torn down, nor the reason why they were put up in the first place and are currently defended as "heritage."  The erroneous and excessive destruction of the Grant statue is not the real problem in our society at present.

Plus I am sure it will be restored, whereas the statue of TR leading inferior races to enlightenment will not.