text: Can we all look forward to the day when nothing can be honoured because someone might take offense?  Humans are both imperfect and products of their time.  Some achieve more than others, and those achievements ought to be commemorated as an inspiration to others, just as the errors they made should serve as lessons.
  
  Perhaps the more strident supporters of a wholesale whitewashing of history would prefer that no statues grace our parks, that all buildngs and streets bear numbers rather than names, that architecture from the repressive and racist Victorian and Edwardian eras be razed, and that books casting minorities in a poor light be burned.