i remember the incident you are referring to which involved one person driving a car into a crowd where tensions were boiling over because one side wanted to take down statues
so the statue issue is tricky because some people don't like what the people are remembered for but on the other side there is a danger because the communists want to do a thing called 'tabula rasa' where they create a blank slate
they kinda see people as something that can be moulded
people all have history and that history informs how they got to be where they are. Some of that history is downright ugly but it still explains why things are as they are so it has lessons in it
the communists want to wipe that history and that's what orwell told us in his fnovel '1984' where he said:
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
he knew a thing or two about the left as well because he'd gone to fight the fascists in spain but then saw the left turn on itself as more authoritarian aspects crushed the rest of the left. He had to flee the country to avoid further persecution
So i think this attack on history is a dangerous thing because if you look at indigenous people around the world who have lost their culture and identity and sense of self they often experience social breakdown which sees all kinds of social problems like depression, drugs, drink, family disintegration and crime etc
what happens to humans when they lose all sense of who they are and where they came from?
What Communists?
Who are you Joseph McCarthy?
Seriously man.
This is why no one is relating to certain things you say.
I see Nazis...I see Antifa and I see all the other people who are neither (majority).
Statues are nice, history is nice.
I say just move them to a museum as they are are insulting to a large portion of the population in those cities - and rightly so.
There are no statues of Hitler on the streets of Germany.
Also rightly so.
Those men represent the enslavement and death of many people.
Who cares if they are removed or torn down in anger?
Oh, the history!
Is still in the history books and online for everyone to read about and learn - the earth will burn up in the sun one day and I will be way long dead, idgaf.
It is backlash against asshats with tiki torches marching in that event you remember that was the disgusting racist face of this country...newly emboldened by D. Trump.
The closest thing to communism I have seen is the way the GOP has been behaving in Congress lately.
That and a certain person...
"It’s everyone’s favorite dictator and mine - our supreme leader - the winner of the “Donald Trump Presents...super-legit Nobel Prizes!” a record total of 87 times...the creator of “Anal Orange” anal bronzer and tinter...that’s right, president until he dies and a family member takes over - etc. etc. etc.”
You guess who.