I apologize if this has been written earlier, but I find it interesting how the cancel culture picks one negative aspect, ignoring all the good, and decides that image or symbol MUST BE BANNED.
Lets take the original post, which IIRC was about eliminating some confederate symbols. While the southern confederacy in popular culture is heavily linked to slavery and rascist attitudes towards African Americans, the cancel culture boys often forget they had some truly valuable ideas as well, such as limiting the power of the federal government, and equal rights for all states, and a host of other really bright ideas. But we forget all that because of their stance on slavery.
Lets take Canada's father of confederation, John A Macdonald. A truly impressive man, his list of accomplishments in this country is second to none. But the cancel culture will have us removing statues and some idiots have suggested taking him out of history books simply because his one huge bad idea, residential schools. All that good, erased for all time, because of one mistake.
I guess all I'm trying to say is before anyone condemns a symbol or a person of history, perhaps they should really understand the history, actually know the history. Otherwise, we may not just be erasing some negative aspects of our history, but also many positive aspects.