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I see some people making the 'removing statues is erasing history' argument.

As someone with a degree in European History, let me explain my view on why this doesn't hold water.

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Statues celebrate, memorials commemorate.

A statue doesn't teach real history. Its only purpose is, and has always been, to send a message of glorification.
These statues, whether #LeopoldII in Belgium, #Colston in Britain or #GeneralLee in America, were erected decades after these people lived.

And they were built for specific reasons that said more about the present than the past.
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