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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Yes but this is a straw man point, nobody has denied racism still exists although your statement makes an awfully big generalization. So does sexism/misogyny. And anti-Semitism. And homophobia. And so on. The question is whether removing statues changes anything.
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Well, as a Jew, let me tell you some of what it's meant for me.
The fact that Nazi symbols, statues, literature, and spoken word are outlawed in Germany has me sleep better. Knowing that the German nation not just acknowledges it's past but speaks the horrors of it's past as part of it's everyday today and future, make it supremely difficult for those at the extremes to magnify or romanticize it, which lets face it, is an attempt to legitimize it.
If America, as a nation that made it's very foundation and wealth off the backs of dehumanizing people of color, could authentically speak it's historical truth and describe its attempt to more authentically represent its ideals - it would reflect far better on it's self anointed image of savior of the dis-empowered and mistreated.
Do you think the countries we decry for human rights violations don't look at our society and laugh off our sanctimony because we barely practice what we preach?
This country is so far off the rails of harmony between white and black in this country, NOT because Black people have been speaking for their right to equal treatment under the eyes and practice of the law, but because certain political leaders have made it ok for far right extremists to have an equal right of an alternate truth that they are free to do whatever the hell they want regardless of zero moral equivalency and blatantly racist underpinning.
All those pining for a past where they didn't have to confront 'woke' society are merely dispirited at not enjoying the unfettered benefits of being in the power position of racial overlord.