Dennis Prager's Argument Against Statues

If one thing is for sure, statues of America’s “historic figures” are arguably one of the lesser evils humans have had to face. The recent removal of several objectionable statues across the United States has sparked a debate amongst its citizens, Dennis Prager and Robert Kuttner being two of them. After reading “Goodbye, Columbus” and “Those Who Don’t Fight Evil Fight Statues”, I found their arguments to be relatively similar, but each with a unique rationale. What the two seemed to agree on was that leftists often fail to identify the real threat in a political issue. Prager uses the example of leftists attacking anti-Islamists instead of Islamists, the greater enemy in the Syrian civil war. I found myself agreeing with Prager in that leftists
are deviating from the real political agenda and causing unnecessary conflict by doing so. However, who's to say that leftists are not impacting anti-Islamists and swaying their opinions? Regardless, both Prager and Kuttner find that leftists are concerning themselves over the wrong thing when it comes to the statues. That is because history is set in stone, and despite the sentimental value or sense of closure that may come with tearing down a statue, racism and Neo-Confederates will still prevail. Living in the past will do nothing for the bettering of society, and for that reason I agree with Kuttner in that we should reflect, reconcile, and move on.