UPDATE.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

There were no Nazis, and this happened!



I am so proud of my city right now.

Comments

[polito]

I have never endorsed alt-rights etc. but I think that demolition of monuments is an ill-conceived idea. Is there in the US not alt-rights who don't share the idea of demolition?

[lb_lee]

Hurrah for Dallas! :D

[sabotabby]

Victory! Yay Dallas!

[sabotabby]

Why do you think it is ill-conceived?

[numb3r_5ev3n]

It's time for them to go. Most of them were not even erected right after the Civil War - they were cheaply mass-produced and erected during the Jim Crow and Civil Rights eras, as a "gimmie" to white supremacists who were afraid they were losing their stranglehold on privilege in this country.

But don't take my word for it:
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/18/16165160/confederate-monuments-history-charlottesville-white-supremacy

https://qz.com/1054062/statues-of-confederate-soldiers-across-the-south-were-cheaply-mass-produced-in-the-north/

It's past time for them to be taken down. Sure, I'm all for warehousing Confederate statues in a museum somewhere, in their proper context - as ill-conceived consolation prizes for the side who were fighting to oppress other human beings. And that will clear up enough space for there to be monuments to the Cajun Navy and other Hurricane Harvey first responders instead, at least here in Texas.