You stop at monuments honoring the Confederacy. It can and will stop there because outside of a few loons there is no equivalence between widely honored and beloved founders like Washington and Jefferson, flawed on slavery as they may have been, and traitors to their country like Lee, Jackson and Forrest.
Concerning history, there isn’t much varied opinion on Benedict Arnold or fretting about why there are no monuments to his heroism at Saratoga before he betrayed his country. He remains an important part of American culture, just through history books, and not in bronze in public parks. Twenty years from now Lee, Jackson and Forrest will have joined Arnold, nothing remotely wrong or worrisome about that.
And yes, pulling down any monument to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a founder and first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, is helpful in combating racism. Racism is not an either/or problem, it’s not wear the hood and burn the cross or don’t, but a continuum, from mild prejudicial thoughts and feelings that may never be expressed to dozens of more tangible degrees.
Oh bull ****. I know plenty of good folk from West Point an they defend Benedict Arnold.
But yeah let us stop at tearin down American history only. No need to nuke the pyramids, from ya know, racist ****ing slave drivers. Keep them cause they weren't white keep them cause history. Do not blow up Aztec alters cause history. Only blow up USA monuments cause race shame white priveledge an we all suck!
Stupid argument.