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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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I was trying to think of a snappy response to @RagnarHairybreeks colonialist pearl clutching and you go and say it so much better than I could manage...
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Well put
edmundro
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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.