Protesters tear down Confederate statue in North Carolina

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That is the usual argument they use.

Commonwealth yokels? I guess you can find "yokels" in most countries, but, on average, those of us who live within the Commonwealth nations tend to have far fewer of them than you do in the U.S.

I don't know much about "Game of Thrones", but from what I have read it does seem that way. Your political system is Machiavellian, very radical, far Right, extreme, entertaining, and just frankly bizarre.

So they tore down a monument. That must have been quite an event. I'm sure it made those people feel very good about themselves, and it made headlines in every major newspaper to boot.

What I'm wondering is: what does tearing down an old statue really do for equal rights or race relations today? Was anything meaningful really accomplished here? I'm honestly not sure. Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe monuments like this should be left intact, so that people in the future could see physical evidence of the Confederacy to drive home how misguided they and all supporters of slavery were? Maybe those things should be preserved in the U.S. for the same reason other disturbing historical sites, like Auschwitz, have been preserved overseas: so that people don't make the same mistakes again. When we can just block, ban, delete, or destroy anything that makes us uncomfortable, no one learns anything, and the lessons of history become all too easy to forget.

But I guess a lot of people in this country don't see it that way.