Re: When is right to remove a statue?

One of my ancesters in a council yard !

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Exactly. Others have tried to destroy the parts of history they don't like.

Hitler was one.

Yet still they remain.

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No one can beat the thought police...1984 took some time getting here but it has arrived....
Thought Police
After the statues, the history books will be burned, students will take over the schooling of all children, libraries and museums will destroyed, there will be a state religion no others will be sanctioned. The worship of the Leader will be all.

The Mantra will be ..." The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you ... The world belongs to you." (Mao)
" if it offends burn it..destroy it, wipe it from memory". (Rehab)

Re: When is right to remove a statue?

A LINK to the Mayor of New Orleans speech concerning why the statues are offensive.

Apparently many of these statues were of segregationists, secessionists, rebels against the country's government, equivalent in todays vernacular to 'remaniacs' , running against the majority of the voters.
Many of the statues have been erected relatively recently, at the time when 'bussing' and blacks were given the right to vote, we are talking of 1965 ish, pretty recent historically.

My solution would be to place such statues in museums with relevant other displays, such as slave shackles, lynching photographs, White only signs, buses with segregated seating............like "The good old days" because that is what the statues are celebrating.

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And that was a proclamation from Bruv, supreme leader of your local Red Guard. I bet you didn't even know who those statues were until you looked on google right?

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It must be winter....there are loads of snowflakeson here....

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You are a silly Billy...................and is that the best non comeback you have ?

Can't fault the logic.....so attack the poster.

My suggestions for historical figures for the spare plinth in Trafalgar square..........undoubtedly historical figures that nobody can deny.........Mao Zedong......Adolf Hitler.......Charles Degaulle...... Arthur Scargill...................any objections ?

Re: When is right to remove a statue?

You didn't answer the question Princess..

Tip: Run your responses by UJ before you post, it might save you some embarrassment

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.......signed JBR