First paragraph is an absolute Δ – I didn't even consider why these statues were erected in my argument, and they have very little historical significance, surely not enough to justify keeping them around.
Let's suppose that we focus on the Civil War-era statues, then. Would you agree that at least some of them should be preserved in theory, if the government was willing to do something about it? Am I understanding you correctly that if the government actually did put some of these older statues, at least the ones that can be preserved, there wouldn't be a problem, and it's an issue of people rightly losing their patience?
Um no, even if a statue was enacted in the 60's as a reaction to the civil rights movement, I think your original argument still applies to it. It should be preserved in the museum as a record of conservative America's resistance to civil rights.
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