Robert E. Lee statue to be moved in Virginia

Robert E. Lee did not primarily fight to keep the institution of slavery alive, but even if your syllogism is valid, it doesn't make him Hiter.

Freedom of speech is a thing

Yeah right, one of the nastiest cruelest slave owners in SC was black, a former slave, he underfed his slaves and sold baby slave girls, even the white slave owners thought he was too cruel .. I think he had over 100 at one time and I think he bought and lived in a former governors home and grounds .. The monument destruction is culture and heritage destroyed to rewrite history ''fake news'' ..

yes, it is. so, why do dems want to stop it??

Right after the war ended at church a black man went to the altar to pray, Robert E Lee went down and kneeled down beside him and prayed .. Where do you see this story in school ?

Your logical fallacy is called red herring.

You didn't know that about the planned culture and heritage change did you ?

by the way, why do the chiefs of the african tribes that sold their own people to the european ( and muslim) slavers get a free pass??

You're missing or dodging a pretty important point here.

The Holocaust was a campaign of extermination which was planned and operated by the elite of a revolutionary regime. Even the regular army generals in the Wehrmacht such as Erwin Rommel cannot be compared with Hitler's supreme evil on these grounds. Nor Zhukov with Stalin.

American chattel slavery was a social and economic system that Lee was born into. It had existed for roughly 200 years before his birth. He didn't build it himself or even defend the people building it. By that point, it was more comparable to medieval serfdom. The slave trade itself, the catalyst for the deaths you referenced, was extinguished long before Lee's birth. It was perpetrated by people of many nationalities as well, not just American Southerners. This is a relevant fact.

The men are hardly comparable and so are their statues.

But this whole discussion on Lee v. Hitler statues is a distraction from the main point- the criteria we use to erect a statue and/or keep a statue.

Point ... Removing monuments doesn't just magically make history disappear
I object to monuments of white supremacy on any properties my tax dollars pay for

It doesn't make history disappear in a literal sense, but the destruction of a monument indeed impacts our memory of great events and people. It's also a physical demonstration of ignorance born of self-righteousness.

It’s all about who or what you seek righteousness in.

I would like to see them all come down. White supremacy is not something that should be celebrated

Statues are not necessarily celebratory and statues that were once celebratory sometimes become less celebratory with time and reflection.

"White Supremacy" is a poor criterion. The meaning of the term changes every ten minutes. One day people use it to describe David Duke. The next, Abraham Lincoln.

if they owned other human beings as property, they should not be memorialized

Many of the most important thinkers and leaders throughout human history owned slaves or fought to preserve a country that owned slaves (often from other countries which owned slaves, granted).

If you want to be the blockhead who erases the Washington Monument, the Jefferson memorial, and every statue of Aristotle, Plato, Pericles, Caesar Augustus, George Whitfield, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant etc, etc, etc. I'll notify Egypt your demolition teams are inbound.

The pyramids were built by paid laborers

Not all Egyptian structures were pyramids. You gave me a pretty wide criterion to work with.

Come to think of it, Confederate monuments were either erected by paid laborers or charitable craftsmen. Can they stay up now?