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  Haul ‘em down, just like those of Stalin in the Soviet satellite states: they serve only as gathering points for the feeble-minded. There are plenty of Confederate (and Union) monuments and war graves (cf. Gettysburg) at which those who are so-minded can pay their respects to the Civil War dead, without the attendant stink of racial superiority.
  
  This has nothing to do with erasing, distorting or falsifying ‘history’: every detail of the Civil War is well-documented, excessively so, and in that respect a few bronze statues here or there aren't worth a kepi. If and when the attempt to ‘edit’ Huckleberry Finn for a 'modern' readership succeeds then I’m on your side.
  
  By the way, many have tried to harness Orwell to the cause of the Right, of that of the Left, and they've all failed: remember, in Spain he fought neither with the Fascists nor with the International Brigades, but with the anarchists.

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