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Foundry Workers Melt Down Charlottesville’s Divisive Robert E. Lee Statue (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Eventually, an artist will be chosen to transform the bronze bars into a public art installation

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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.