El Salvador tears down the Reconciliation Monument, a symbol of the end of a bloody civil war that took place between 1980 and 1992, which President Nayib Bukele branded “unsightly” and an apology for pacts between the left and right. “It was a monument to corruption,” says Public Works Minister Romeo Rodriguez.
Shit is getting dangerously close to the fan when a society starts to demolish their monuments.
You’re right. The confederate statues did cross my mind when I was typing my post, and I do think destroying them would be a shame.
Even watching statues of such dispecable people as Stalin or Saddam being torn down always made me feel kind of a dread.
While trying to rationalize the feeling I came up with few ideas.
What’s even more fucked up in case of el salvador, is that the statue was there to commemorate the end of the war. If a person has no respect towards a symbol of peace, however ugly it might subjectively be, how much respect does he have towards the peace itself?