Tear it all down, we hear. Get rid of the racist statues that tie us to our past. This is the rallying cry of thousands of activists, academics, and of course, self-serving politicos. Yet they are missing the very basics when it comes to statues, art, and history. These strident voices are failing to understand what statues actually are.

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