From the reference frame:
…That's why I thought that it was just a distasteful prank when I read that NAACP wanted to liquidate the confederate carving in Georgia, the largest bas relief in the world. Plans to create it were around since 1916 but the construction was taking place between 1964 and 1972. It shows CSA president Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson…
Yep, the Taliban is an apt analogy. The Orwell line comes to mind, “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”