Brexit, for once some facts.
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The process of change is incomplete as your refusal to accept that there is still extensive racism shows only too obviously.
While racism against black people still exists and still hurts, the presence of statues to such as Colston intensfies the hurt, regardless of any added explanations. They should never have been erected so to correct that they should be removed now to emphasize the social change taking place.
Leaving them in place with a mealy-mouthed explanation is rather like someone saying "What I did was very wrong, but I refuse to apologise for it".
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Yes in addition to prosecuting the scum for Criminal Damage, I'm sure an appropriate offence concerning the disposal of the statue could be found. Perhaps the money needed to recover the statue from the sea could be taken from community project initiatives which fund and benefit those who threw it in there.
Vfr will be along shortly with a conspiracy theory that will explain it all to us with the appropriate links to lizards disguised as human beings.
No it isn't. It's almost like a diary of our past illustrating how people who are now dead used to act, and how people who are alive now have different views to the dead people. It's wrong to erase history on the whim of a minority of scum.
The concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau have remained and show they us what dead people of that era once did. Nobody has taken a bulldozer to the camp and turned the land into a turnip field, deleting the place from history.
Deleting history is for the filth we saw on our streets at the weekend, attacking and injuring police officers. They are complete scum and if anything needs deleting it is protesters.
Indeed, and many of them achieved amazing things for one person, Hitler for example, so why no statues commemorating him?
Then there's Ghengis Khan, Alexander the Great, Tamerlane, Attila the Hun, Charlemagne, Pharoah Thutmose III of Egypt and many more before returning to more recent offenders.
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Alexander the Great conqueror of most of the known world and a favourite of mine. Had an ability to rally his troops again and again, considered to be the greatest soldier ever. Queer as a clockwork orange mind but that's neither here nor there.
It is not erasing history since these statues were erected solely to celebrate these often evil lives.
History is for recording events, not statues, and no-one has been erasing that history.
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The fact that a statue was erected to celebrate what we now understand to be an evil life is a historical event. It captures that particular moment.
I suppose it's like those paintings of Christians being slayed, they could hang in an art gallery or museum but would you want to witness that every time you walk through your town centre.
As an excuse that really is nonsense. The workmen who erected it were a part of that moment. Where's their statues?
Erecting a statue is not a historical event any more than sweeping the street was.
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Great for washing away the outdoor Covid-19 viruses.
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The worst rain I ever experienced was outside Bath . In mid afternoon in Summer, it was not possible to see the rear fog lights or brake lights about 50 metres ahead. Of course everyone had lights on.
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Erecting a statue is not a historical event any more than sweeping the street was.
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