(10-11-2021, 07:11 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: At this point, considering what we know about Columbus, it's probably ridiculous we celebrate him. I don't think the monster that a certain groups of leftists claim, but he was definitely more of a buffoon than a brilliant thinker. I'm cool with getting rid of this as a holiday. I'm not cool with taking down his statue in Syracuse. Same way I'm not cool with taking away the ones for Robert E. Lee in Virginia. History is what it is. It's horrible and ugly, and it's going to be nigh impossible to find someone without sin. You take the good AND the bad and move forward, trying to learn from both.

When we choose to make and prominently display a statue, we are doing more than teaching history, we are celebrating it.  Neither Columbus nor Lee should be celebrated.  Both should be taught.  
In Germany you won't find any Nazi symbols but all Germans are taught who the Nazis were.  The communist symbols have also been taken down but there seems to be a lot of awareness about the Stasi being just as bad as the Gestapo.  They teach history without celebrating it.  We can do the same.

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