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Re: NYC to review ‘all symbols of hate’ on city property: de Blasio

Posted by Mitch45 on Thu Aug 17 08:03:08 2017, in response to NYC to review ‘all symbols of hate’ on city property: de Blasio, posted by DAnd124 on Wed Aug 16 23:03:12 2017.

While I think this is a noble idea, ultimately it can't work. Pretty much every public figure who was ever honored had a skeleton in their closet, if you look hard enough. Washington and Jefferson owned slaves. JFK and RFK's father Joe Kennedy was a Nazi sympathizer. Charles Lindbergh was too. Robert Moses didn't like Jews or blacks (allegedly). Peter Stuyvesant wanted to keep Jews out of New Amsterdam. FDR had internment camps for Japanese-Americans. And so on.

If we start dismantling monuments to every person who ever held a belief that we consider today to be immoral and wrong, we won't have any monuments at all.

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