The world is getting crazy on changing the past!
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Far more significant than, say, a statue of Robert E. Lee as a triumphant hero.
Are you denying that the Berlin Wall is a very important part of history?
Well, that certainly has the same relationship to reality of die Mauer as the statues of Robert E. Lee as a hero on horseback have to the reality of the worn-out loser signing the unconditional surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.Why rebuild when the remaining remnants still stand as reminders. In this case, history is still on display.
www.seetheworldinmyeyes.com/historical-architecture/what-is-left-of-the-berlin-wall-after-25-years/
Berlin Wall with Border Fortifications at Bernauer Straße
They are trying to tear down many statues even Lincoln and Grant and some Norwegian guy , why focus on Robert E. Lee ?
Taking the logic farther down the rabbit hole you've chosen... I take it you consider the construction of a maximum security prison as a dedicated monument similar to a statue of Galileo or Issac Newton?
What has a prison got to do with this? They put up the wall "for our security." They said so, regularly.
Of course, there were observers who cynically commented that the real purpose of the Wall was to keep East Germans out of West Berlin, but that doesn't fit with your prison narrative either. You don't build prisons to keep people out.
The Berlin Wall was purpose built and like most communist regimes, was constructed to keep people in, not keep people out.
That said, there is far more in common between a prison and the Berlin Wall than that of a statue
My personal favourites are the hypocritical f*cks who happily accept a Rhodes scholarship and then whine about his statues oppressing them.
Wow dude, right the f*ck over your head.
So getting money from a scholarship in the name of Cecil Rhodes is not oppressive but having to see a statue of the man who's legacy is the ONLY reason those scholarships even exist is oppressive.
Clearly they're handing out Rhodes Scholarships to morons these days. "I got a free scholarship to attend the prestigious Oxford University in the name of Cecil Rhodes. I'm so oppressed by his statue." :roll:
