@ Doing my best
Comparing the two is an egregious mistake. Racism and slavery is not the same as genocide. For you to make the comparison cheapens who the Nazis were and downplays the Jewish experience during the war. You should be ashamed.
That being said, I personally support taking down the statues. If it causes people real anguish I don’t believe they should remain up.
I also don’t know why you run to the Holocaust to find a comparison. If one were to walk in Ukraine nowadays, you would find monuments and statues dedicated to Bogdan chmielnicki, the father of Ukrainian nationalism who was responsible for the death of tens of thousands of Jews (if not hundreds of thousands). Have you been to Ukraine? Did you feel a terrible injustice that his statue still stands? There are real cases of statues of people which still stand who cause the Jews tremendous anguish. What would you feel if you walked the streets in Ukraine? I for one, thought- “nebach, the people probably don’t even realize who he was….” It would never cross my mind to rally a group of people to tear it down. Then again I wouldn’t care if theywould…
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