Being Australian I don’t know much about the history?
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Here’s the nutshell version.
A lot of Americans are very unhappy, right now, for a *lot* of different reasons. So, they are lashing out. But their anger is unfocused, because they don’t know how to properly direct it, so they are kind of lashing out at anything and everything. They don’t have a clear enemy, because the real enemy is, well–everyone. It is an entire society collapsing, because America is a quasi-democracy, but American society is currently not particularly capable of making wise decisions for itself.
In the case of the Columbus statues, the anger is primarily directed toward him because he allegedly engaged in slavery, and slavery was what brought a lot of black people from Africa to America, which naturally caused great suffering to those black people. Black Americans are tired of a lot of racism and abuse they currently suffer (and have suffered for many years), so they are lashing out. Columbus statues are just falling victim to that, because they see Columbus as a symbol of those who abused black people.
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