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>I tolerate viewpoints - what I don't tolerate is racism and symbols of it. At some point you have to draw the line - and obviously there are fuzzy gray areas where that line should be drawn - but I think one thing we can agree on is that racism and symbols of it is bad ..right? Statues like that of Lee need (and have) to be removed for any meaningful step towards better race relations in the USA. Will removing them all solve the problem? Of course not - at least not on it's own - but things like that can be part of a process of removing many racist things embedded in our society that, as a whole, can make a larger difference.

Victor, all that happens when you decide to wash away history by removing statues is you start a civil war (ironically)

As I said, history is not there for you to love or hate or admire or "wash away" - it's there to learn from.