Tbf, it's quite a decent list, but I am still at a loss as to why a a statue of Lee has to be pulled down to assist these civil liberties.....
It is only 6 months, I am sure that he will try to add to it as his term continues.
I'd say the fact that this statue caused hundreds of Nazi's to march in the streets was a pretty potent demonstration of their influence over people's views on civil liberties.
You seem to be portraying that those that object to the removal of these statues are lovers of history and just want to preserve it - do you really think the same guys who rallied this week would travel to protest if Touro synagogue (a century older than the civil war) was slated for removal?
As I said many of these monuments were erected in the Jim Crow era, it it hard to believ they were not a none too subtle sign that some wanted to return the era of Lee. Some were erected as late as the 2000s and in states that wreen't even states during the civil war - will it really do irreparable harm to our knowledge of history to remove them?
The local people ,whose taxes pay for the statues upkeep and also pay for the policing of any demonstrations, wanted them removed which I feel should be a significant factor as well.
Fwiw I would oppose something like the destruction of Arlington House as that to me is actual history. A bunch of cheap knockoff statues mostly based in places that had no connection to Lee himself are not the same in my eyes.
