Pedestals concentrate power. They discourage dissent. What if we built Idaho community differently?

Pedestals concentrate power. They discourage dissent. What if we built Idaho community differently?

The Wassmuth Center for Human Rights was named after Bill Wassmuth, a priest at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Coeur d’Alene, who pushed against the Aryan Nations in the 1980s, even surviving a bombing to his home. (Photo by Mia Maldonado/Idaho Capital Sun)When you walk through the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial at the Wassmuth Center, you are surrounded by the ideas of people who changed the world: Frederick Douglass, Mahatma Gandhi, Ele…