Statues and what to do with them.

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Iolo/Penderyn

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I know that the subject of racist statues has been quite big in the South of the USA, and thought you would like to know that one of the first good effects of the Black Lives Matter uprising has been to get rid of a really nasty one over here, in what has been, in my experience, the most racist place in the UK, Bristol. For years, ever since I lived in the place, people have been discussing getting rid of the statue of that disgusting pioneering slave-trader and one-time tory mayor of the city, Colson. At last, yesterday, the people took the nasty old bugger and chucked him into the docks (near, I was pleased to see, a pub where I once sank too much scrumpy cider for the first and last time). Bristol is a beautiful city inhabited, alas, by Bristolians, who used, when they had no 'black' people to bully, to pick on us 'Welsh', so I was delighted to see that amongst those slinging him into the healing waters were lots of pink skinned as well as brown-skinned people. The resistance to your incurable police has spread good ideas everywhere! Congratulations to the BLM movement - and also to the authority in Milwaukie who are planning to clean the racist bullyboys away!
 
Trying to wrap my brain over someone actually getting offended by a statue

I can understand living in his mansion how Lebron James feels oppressed. I guess
 
Celticguy said:
I think its silly to deny history.
Getting rid of a statue changes nothing.
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nobody is denying history you inbred moron...

li·brar·y
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a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for people to read, borrow, or refer to.
"a school library"
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Wait for it...removal of Winston Churchill’s statue.

Black Life Matter Activists Scribble ‘Racist’ On The Statue Of Winston Churchill At London’s Parliament Square
by Swarajya Staff - Jun 7, 2020 10:53 PM
 
Penderyn said:
I know that the subject of racist statues has been quite big in the South of the USA, and thought you would like to know that one of the first good effects of the Black Lives Matter uprising has been to get rid of a really nasty one over here, in what has been, in my experience, the most racist place in the UK, Bristol. For years, ever since I lived in the place, people have been discussing getting rid of the statue of that disgusting pioneering slave-trader and one-time tory mayor of the city, Colson. At last, yesterday, the people took the nasty old bugger and chucked him into the docks (near, I was pleased to see, a pub where I once sank too much scrumpy cider for the first and last time). Bristol is a beautiful city inhabited, alas, by Bristolians, who used, when they had no 'black' people to bully, to pick on us 'Welsh', so I was delighted to see that amongst those slinging him into the healing waters were lots of pink skinned as well as brown-skinned people. The resistance to your incurable police has spread good ideas everywhere! Congratulations to the BLM movement - and also to the authority in Milwaukie who are planning to clean the racist bullyboys away!
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I saw a news clip on it, bravo!
 
In SF there’s a big controversy over a mural at George Washington high school depicting slaves and native Americans being attacked. The kids are claiming it is offensive and want it removed. The mural was drawn in the ‘30’s by a communist and funded by the WPA. It was intended to depict our negative history. So it’s a left on left battle as older liberals are defending it as art and a reminder of our history
 
cawacko said:
In SF there’s a big controversy over a mural at George Washington high school depicting slaves and native Americans being attacked. The kids are claiming it is offensive and want it removed. The mural was drawn in the ‘30’s by a communist and funded by the WPA. It was intended to depict our negative history. So it’s a left on left battle as older liberals are defending it as art and a reminder of our history
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Hmmm...sounds like it's "offensive" "art" :thinking:
 
katzgar said:
nobody is denying history you inbred moron...

li·brar·y
/ˈlīˌbrerē,ˈlīb(ə)rē/
Learn to pronounce
noun
a building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for people to read, borrow, or refer to.
"a school library"
a collection of books and periodicals held in a library.
"the Institute houses an outstanding library of 35,000 volumes on the fine arts"
a room in a private house where books are kept.
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Yes. you are. Just too stupid to realize it.
 
Earl said:
Wait for it...removal of Winston Churchill’s statue.

Black Life Matter Activists Scribble ‘Racist’ On The Statue Of Winston Churchill At London’s Parliament Square
by Swarajya Staff - Jun 7, 2020 10:53 PM
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some feel that way about Churchill as some do about Reagan
 
jimmymccready said:
some feel that way about Churchill as some do about Reagan
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He was getting the troops ready to shoot our miners down here in 1910, so as far as I'm concerned, statues of Churchill are something I can do without, particularly as he sent my uncle and a lot more people to an unnecessary death in Norway as the War ended. I got used to seeing him in another light (though my own family infinitely preferred the Mahatma) as a result of the War. I think the great thing about statues is how strongly does any minority feel about a statue, and does real history bear them out. Anyone who sold other human beings into slavery, or profited from their labour, for instance, belongs in the deepest parts of the sea, however charitable he may have been with the profits.
 
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