Thoughts?

Just move them to a museum, 100%. I agree the statues shouldn't be destroyed, but some also shouldn't be kept on public land.

They should all be kept public, that’s the point of them, moving them to a museum is just covering up a scar, it just hiding it, why should we be hiding history?

Statues of communist leaders were put up in Eastern Europe/ Western Asia but taken down after. The statues of confederate leaders weren't erected to honor the dead, but put up at the time of Jim Crow laws with the intent to intimidate. Seeing a statue commemorating people who hurt your ancestors is not any fun. Moving them to a museum where they can be viewed with historical context and by consent of those entering is much better.

The reasoning behind the statues being erected is debatable, historians disagree on the context all the time, moving the statues and hiding the shame is censoring history; they were put there for a reason, hiding them in museums takes away the opportunity to move forward and learn, yes we learn from museums but do you know how many people actually go to them? Significantly less than those who see them in the open, where they belong. Your ancestors are your ancestors, We are here and now, we need to stop living in the past, and start appreciating and learning from it, even the poor parts we’d rather forget.

Would you appreciate a Hitler statue in front of your school

no I wouldn’t, hitler was a bad man who caused the death of millions of people, but the statue would have been erected for a reason, and if that blemish was out there, then there should be information readily available at its location as to why it’s a blemish, and to be presented as a learning opportunity. Side note, you can’t invoke Hitler in this scenario, he is of the greatest evil, while the figures displayed in the south, though controversial, were and still are hero’s to many, the south fought for what they believed in, and regardless of the contributing factors, the only reason we demonize them is because they lost the war, and as we all know history is written by the victors. If the population defaces them so be it, but we should not be removing them, and I will not budge on that.

Confederate leaders advocated for the continued suffering of many. Hitler was also a hero to some.

The empire was definitely not communist. I don't know what they would be considered but communism is definitely not it.

The empire is a corrupted communist state. It's the idea of communism perverted... like what has happened every single time it has been attempted.

That’s not an argument, how is it corrupt communism? If anything it’s facist

Yeah.... show me one successful communist government that hasn't collapsed into fascism. There is a reason that although they are at opposite ends on any linear scale, but right next to each other on any horseshoe or triangle one. I prefer the triangle... a pyramid actually.