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Where does it end
When all the cunts aren't on big plinths being celebrated but are stuck in a museum with a plaque saying why they were cunts and why it took so long to move them here.
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Revise history on the fly by destroying monuments?
This is bullshit too, history isn't changed by getting rid of a statue, it all still happened. Now maybe it's being recalled more honestly in places and monuments to it's most successful monsters are rightly being evaluated as to whether they should be on prominent display in front of the descendents of people they may have owned.
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So, just give us your reasons for keeping Colston's statue up then.
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So the chaps that tear down a statue and throw it in the harbour because there was slave trading involved in the making of the fortune (unforgivable) that lead to enormous philanthropy toward Bristol are acquitted? Could you just not add a plaque with information?
I tell you what, J M Barrie had a very dodgy relationship with the small boy that was the inspiration for Peter Pan. Quick! Go tear down the statue of Peter Pan in Regents Park.
Churchill was misogynist and racist. Rip them all down and rename the streets and pubs!
Where does it end? Education, yes. Provide further information, yes. Revise history on the fly by destroying monuments? (Umm, wasn’t that one of the big things that ticked people off about the Taliban and Daesh?)
Not that in anyway I can forgive Colston for his involvement in the slave trade, but find me a single major figure without a blemish on their soul. Ghandi and Mother Theresa did some pretty horrible things.