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Like A Bad Tattoo You Can't Cover Up
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We've talked about it with statues, but Georgia's Stone Mountain is that times a zillion: It's the visages of Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jefferson Davis carved into a mountain. The debate: get rid of it or use it as a "teaching" tool, which is really a lot like the debate over statues (leave them where they are and put up an instructional plaque or take them away and maybe stick them in a museum). State law prohibits removing some Confederate tributes, which raises the question of why anyone would want to protect tributes to something deeply and transparently racist. And it's not like Stone Mountain is some historic place; the carvings were started under KKK funding in the early 1900s but not finished until the 1950s, and Stone Mountain's significance is as the place where the KKK burned crosses in 1915 to signal its revival. Not something you want to honor, I'd say, but defenders are crying "cancel culture" like crazy. Meanwhile, park officials are moving flags and putting in exhibits, but they have no intention of getting rid of the carvings. Should they? (Washington Post)
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