Trollzyn the Infinite wrote:I'm all for tearing down statues of Columbus and Confederate leaders. Columbus was a genocidal rapist and slaver who even the Spanish Crown thought was a monster. CSA leaders were traitors who fought for slavery. Neither get any sympathy from me.
"History" isn't an excuse. We have books and museums for these people. They won't be forgotten and neither will their crimes. We don't need statues of them.
Exactly, we now about people who didn't even have statues or really a written record, yet we know so much about them