[irthomasthomas]

  The easiest solution is to just remove the materials 

And so doom us to repeat the mistakes of our forebears and bring violent racisim back into fashion?

It is racists, more than anyone, who wish to hide the historical roots of racism. That we might find it impossible to recognise it's impending revival.

[mauvehaus]

Perhaps, I should clarify: I'm not suggesting that it's a good solution, merely that it holds a certain appeal to some people in the short term.

[irthomasthomas]

In 1960s Germany, students where so outraged by the absence of Nazism from their history curriculum that they turned violent. They rioted, bombed, and killed because they felt they where being denied their right to learn their recent history. And they blamed this on the fact that their teachers and parents had been Nazis, and thought they where trying to erase their crimes. In a flash of cruel irony, the state's desire to shelter the students from political violence ignited it again in the streets and in the hearts of their students.

[slg]

>And so doom us to repeat the mistakes of our forebears and bring violent racisim back into fashion?

Society has larger problems if a few kids books and some statues were all that was preventing a slide into violent racism.

[hellojesus]

1. This is happening across society and not solely in kids books and statues.

2. Mao stated himself in his revolutionary speech that they would indoctrinate the next generation if the current one was unwilling, and this is a perfect example of that applied.