From where? Was it a "discreet city decision" or criminal act?
They had already cleaned the graffiti off prior to removal
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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
The losers don't get statues.
There are not statues of Hitler in Germany or Tojo in Japan.
The Hitler Tojo thing is an over the top example I will admit, haha.The Civil War is U.S. History, and both sides had honorable U.S. Citizens, equally deserving of memorials, plaques, and statues.
The argument could be made that both sides "lost" something, because there were Dead U.S. Citizens on both sides of the battlefields.
Regardless, Admiral Semmes was not Hitler or Tojo, so, since you're new around here, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and hope you weren't seriously making the comparison to justify the statue's removal.
The Hitler Tojo thing is an over the top example I will admit, haha.
MOST, not all, of these monuments and statues are from post 1920s and have no reason to exist as they just glorify a unjust cause in our history and were primarily erected by organizations to promote southern racism at the time.
I think this statue in particular is from 1900, so is not as much as an affront, and I honestly don't know much about the man himself and his views, so there very well may be a valid reason for it to exist.
But there is a difference between glorifying a war/idea of the time, and action/heroics of the Americans who fought (on either side).
In the end my point is the same, the losers do not get statues, unless there is an underlying reason unrelated to "He fought bravely for the Confederacy".