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Re:Amateur Sleuths Aim to Identify Charlottesville Marchers,... by bassman9000 on Monday August 14, 2017 @11:34PM (#15015198)
Is it because the scale of the demise he caused, or because he caused it to non-americans?

If it's the former, Lenin is no saint worth a statue: http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Quotes/leni...

If it's the latter, it's a sad example of US-centrism. By that token, <insert any other non-US dictator here> would be acceptable.

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Re:Amateur Sleuths Aim to Identify Charlottesville Marchers,... by tacomonstrous on Monday August 14, 2017 @11:36PM (#15015208)
It's the latter, and it's not because of US-centrism, but because of the context in which the question was asked, which is the desire to remove statues to Confederate soldiers.
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