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And that naming should be gone too.
Baden Powell's Nazi sympathy seems to be a more complex story, at the same time he fought for the colonial UK, so do we really need to celebrate him with a statue?
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If you compare pre WW1 to Post WW1 versions of Scouting for Boys you will see a change in focus from preparing boys to administer an Empire to International friendship. International Jamborees and Kanderstag for example.
I'm a Scout Leader BTW happy to talk about the reality of the Association today which, in my experience is not racist or homophobic.
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In Charlton, there’s a Wharf, house, pub etc named after a business man who was in the slave trades just to make money to buy arts (Angerstein) and benefit from it.