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For that we must keep our eyes on the dodge-ball of reality
What is a free mind, if it has no reference to know what is freedom, and what is not?
This issue, also at the heart of free speech, helps us answer the question of whether or not “Offensive” historical artifacts should be destroyed.
Destroying a historical artifact might well remove it, and everything it represents, from the thoughts of most people.
But what does it actually achieve?
It makes us forget what actually happened.
That suits those who have an interest in making us forget, just fine.
Why would anyone wish us to forget?
If we forget how it happened before, then it could enable similar inhumanities to occur all over again.
Who would benefit from that?
To try to answer that question, let’s mention the name of Thomas Jefferson, for example.
This might immediately bring to mind thoughts of a most abhorrent practice seen at various times in human history, slavery.
But at the heart of the American Civil War, was economics, and inequality.
