confederate monuments deserve the same fate as BinLaden

[Coventina]

4. No, no, no, a thousand times NO!

I will keep posting this every time it comes up!

As an art historian, I beg you not to advocate for this.

I am all for removing them from places of honor, but PLEASE do not advocate destroying them.

Art works are important, even ones that we may find personally abhorrent. Once you open the door to destroying art, it is a very slippery slope to the ISIS type of destruction going on in Syria and Iraq.

Many ancient works of art were obliterated there. Artworks that glorified personalities far worse than the Confederacy ever dreamed.

You may try to throw false equivalency in my face, but really, it is the same thing. Artworks are a record of our past. They document a lot of things that are intangible in other media.

Put them in dusty museum basements, but please do not destroy them.

In Washington DC we have a large collection of Nazi inspired paintings (including watercolors done by Hitler himself). They are hidden away, but an important record of a movement that needs recording and continued study.

Please, please, please, never advocate for the destruction of art.