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Post Reply Who Can Post? All users can post new topics and all users can reply. Icon: Formatting Mode: Normal Advanced Help Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Script MT Bold Stencil Verdana Lucida Console -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 6 White Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: HTML is Off Smilies are On BB Code is On [img] Code is On [quote][i]Originally posted by Ian[/i] [quote][i]Originally posted by DaveyLC[/i] People are tripping over themselves to defend ... characters like Edward Colston[/quote] I'm not sure this is true. My objection is that the process for tearing down a statue is currently assemble a mob and hack it down. Or merely vandalise it, or cow city councils, universities or whoever in to removing it for fear of being branded racist through inaction. You wouldn't undertake any other planning process by mob or this type of pressure and its a dangerous path for me that it succeeds so easily. There's a grave danger that the vocal mob with their righteous cause usurp the wishes of what stands to be a far larger body of feeling, simply because the people sitting at home thinking its ridiculous are not out there campaigning for stuff to stay. As soon as something becomes fashionable you're on to a loser, I did watch soon after the one in Bristol came down many other councils and universities tripping over themselves to do the right thing and raze any undesirable artefacts in quick time before the mob came for them. All very spineless and none of it done from a position of reason. You'd also have to flatten half of Liverpool if you wanted to get rid of any trace of slave trading, half the streets are named after the wealthy traders who built a great many of the old buildings. You'd be left with no heritage whatsoever. And for what? Because the removal of history makes things OK? Or because black people don't want to walk down Rodney Street or Bold Street? Not sure anyone gave a shit before it became fashionable, nor whether it addresses any specific issues than any specific black person faces in the world today. Again - same issue as these BLM marches - what are they actually achieving that betters peoples' lives? Very little. [/quote] Post Options: Disable smileys? Turn BBCode off? Receive email notification of new replies?

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