Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics

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22. It's like we're purging the past, and I think we're going too far, IMO.

Confederate statues being the exception, because they were built decades after the civil war and were designed to oppress the black populations of America. That being said, we competed the WW2 memorial in Washington DC in 2004, some 70 years after winning the war. I'm not sure time frame is a good measure of this, but the oppression designed into confederate memorials just feels wrong to me.

But only in the last 100 years or so have we more or less purged slavery in modern societies. Literally every civilization before 1900 had slaves, oppressed some population, or waged war on someone to conquer land. The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Chinese, Japanese, literally country that ever existed. Julius Caesar, the Prophet Muhammad, King David, George Washington, Pharaoh Ptolemy, Toussaint Louverture, every Chinese and Japanese Emperor, and almost anyone that you've ever read about in history books personally owned slaves at some point.

Should we support tearing down the Pyramids because they were built with slave labor? The White House, the Smithsonian, The Parthenon, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, The Colosseum, Angkor Wat, Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China, others?