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First, we don't have to do it all at once. Let's start with the Confederates, because, you know, they committed treason against the rightful government. Do I recommend taking down every Confederate statute? No. Some are interpretive, and can and should stay, as an example, those on Civil War battlefields. Most, however, are commemorative and celebrate the continued ownership of fellow human beings as property, chattel. Those need to go, and ASAP.
As to others, we have time to have a rational debate. Columbus didn't come to the new world in order to sicken the natives and had no clue that that was what he was doing. He did however, come to exploit the resources he found here, and did that knowingly. Does that make him good or bad? Or both? We have time to debate those questions.
But, the Confederates were traitors, and they lost the war. The victor, after all, gets to write the history. Take your damn statues (and flags, while you are at it) and go. Their time is over.
As to others, we have time to have a rational debate. Columbus didn't come to the new world in order to sicken the natives and had no clue that that was what he was doing. He did however, come to exploit the resources he found here, and did that knowingly. Does that make him good or bad? Or both? We have time to debate those questions.
But, the Confederates were traitors, and they lost the war. The victor, after all, gets to write the history. Take your damn statues (and flags, while you are at it) and go. Their time is over.