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Foundry Workers Melt Down Charlottesville’s Divisive Robert E. Lee Statue
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
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Charlottesville destroys historical artifact because of emotional reaponse to bad people 150 years ago
The thing was made 60 years after the war ended. The guy fought against the United States. Never should have been made in the first place. It's a shame that it took so long to correct this mistake.
I think it's important to remember that Robert E Lee himself wasn't too keen on civil war monuments:
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Anonymous Lemmy user butthurt that other people don't want to honor symbols of racism
From 1924. Also it's just a fucking statue. Grow up.
I mean, it wasn't put up during the war itself or anything, but quite awhile later as a symbolic gesture. Doing this is just a symbolic gesture with the reverse message.
I could see your point if they were like, tearing down a preserved civil war era fort or something like that which might actually hold some sort of insight into the war itself or how people at the time lived, but this statue doesn't have that value.
Well, they are transforming it. The new art will probably recognize the old art and pictures exist.