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I just don’t believe in destruction. I prefer to believe in continuous improvement
In some circumstances they're the same thing.
Besides, people had been trying to get rid of it by other means and it was going nowhere, they took matters into their own hands and did something beautiful. -
I share your basic sentiment about vandalism. But I think you're missing the back story.
There was a long standing campaign to have a plaque explaining his role in the slave trade (~5yrs iirc) that was essentially ignored.
It's hard to think of a justifiable reason why the local authority of a city (that only is what it is because of the transatlantic slave trade) would do that. It's such an obviously reasonable way to balance the history of the city.
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I just don’t believe in destruction. I prefer to believe in continuous improvement.