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I like the idea of putting them into a museum of their history, so we can appreciate the skill that was needed to make them but we also learn about the stain on humanity that the subjects represent
Most of them are not good examples of the fine arts. Shit, the average town would just buy one from travelling salesmen who intentionally sold mass produced statues that had easily modified insignia and could be sold on either side of the Mason-Dixon line. The one in this story was just a carved obelisk from the early 20th century, probably from a tombstone yard in northeast Georgia.
If somebody ponied up for Auguste Rodin to do a Confederate statue, then okay fine let's squirrel it away in the corner of a museum somewhere, maybe even from a lesser light like Charles Keck, but other than that you could adequately preserve the artistic and historical value of these things, even the ones of specific enslaving assholes, with a dozen examples in a storage unit somewhere, along with a flash drive holding 3D scans of the rest, and that's presuming you actually got all the southern municipalities to agree to take them down.
why make them agree?
remind them of an actual civil war hero, and just take them down, killing any CSA fuckers who get in your way?
There’s plenty other examples of skill to use that doesn’t have a subject of traitors….this can get melted, or otherwise destroyed.
Yeah like a normal poster explaining what shitty people they were to teach. There's no reason to glorify them with statues, the majority of which were put to by daughters of the Confederacy or whatever in the 1920s. Shitgibbons themselves.
if we need the materials for anything, or it gets too expensive to keep in a box, sure. lets not give this scrap priority over other scrap.
No.
I agree in the same way there is Nazi paraphernalia/propaganda in museums today. If we don't teach about and denounce traitors we'll be sure to see more. These statues were used a century later to brainwash people into advocating for terrorism.