The current spate of “anti-racist” protests has led to the destruction of statues to erase anyone deemed by these self-appointed judges of society to have done some wrong which is real or perceived. There have been precedents over the centuries, but where should one stop? Using their logic just about everything that we treasure should be destroyed, for example why not destroy the pyramids which were built by slaves purely for the vanity of Pharaohs, or perhaps the Colosseum which was used for brutally killing innocent people for the amusement of others? If we destroy these, we do not change the past but deny future generations the ability to learn from the unpalatable parts of history in the hope that such things are not repeated. That is why places like Auschwitz were not destroyed but preserved.