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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 4011855, member: 26302"]I am sorry, but I have a HUGE issue with anyone in this hobby advocating destroying an item. History is history. The item DID NOT DO IT. A silver coin with a Nazi symbol DID NOT do any negative things the Nazis did. I have a coin of Ghengis Khan. Should THAT be destroyed because he killed entire populations of cities who resisted him? The COIN did not do that, the man who is dead did that. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone advocating destroying any object just because of what what someone did is no more than old fashioned book burners. No OBJECT performed the acts you despise, just like no book wrote itself. Objects are objects. They should be preserved and used for education.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the OP had posted this item and praised its message, then I could see why people would get riled up, just like if I posted a Ghengis Khan coin and advocated treating people today like he did. The OP didn't. He posted an object about a group of people with despicable opinions, and I think today is a fine day to show what some people think and how they were wrong, and how MLK helped the country overcome such nonsense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 4011855, member: 26302"]I am sorry, but I have a HUGE issue with anyone in this hobby advocating destroying an item. History is history. The item DID NOT DO IT. A silver coin with a Nazi symbol DID NOT do any negative things the Nazis did. I have a coin of Ghengis Khan. Should THAT be destroyed because he killed entire populations of cities who resisted him? The COIN did not do that, the man who is dead did that. Anyone advocating destroying any object just because of what what someone did is no more than old fashioned book burners. No OBJECT performed the acts you despise, just like no book wrote itself. Objects are objects. They should be preserved and used for education. If the OP had posted this item and praised its message, then I could see why people would get riled up, just like if I posted a Ghengis Khan coin and advocated treating people today like he did. The OP didn't. He posted an object about a group of people with despicable opinions, and I think today is a fine day to show what some people think and how they were wrong, and how MLK helped the country overcome such nonsense.[/QUOTE]
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