>>>>>>>Sure glad you all found an interesting discussion point.
>>>>>>>PC gone overboard.
>>>>>>>Just imagine we started tearing down statues. We'd never see the end of it as we have a somewhat longer history than the US.
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>>>>>>Ok - so how many statues of Leon Degrelle in Belgium are there?
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>>>>>Try Leopold I.
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>>>>But he wasn't a traitor like Degrelle was he?
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>>>Maybe he meant Leopold II. Even by the already low standards of colonialism his Belgian empire in the Congo was a shocker.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State>>Correction.... not Belgian.... he did it in his own name.
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>For Belgium of which he was King.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State