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Posted on 6/21/20 at 6:38 pm to CrimsonBoz
Posted on 6/21/20 at 6:38 pm to CrimsonBoz
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Where does this shite end?! As a History PhD I don’t even know what to do at this point....
So anyone who ever owned a slave, in a time period where it was a social norm, statue is coming down? Regardless of anything else?
It goes beyond that, dude. They get a pass on some statues and now it’s open season on all statues...of any historical figure. They defaced two statues of abolitionists, John Greenleaf Whittier and Matthias Baldwin...
Baldwin was a Quaker...here’s what the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote about him:
Baldwin, who created one of the largest a locomotive manufacturing firms of his time, was an outspoken critic against slavery during the early 1800s, arguing for the right of African Americans to vote and founding a school in the city for black children.
Also heard that protesters in England went after a statue of Winston Churchill...if it weren’t for him those protesters might be speaking German...
Whose statue is next? Mother Teresa?
This post was edited on 6/21/20 at 6:40 pm
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Posted on 6/21/20 at 10:11 pm to OldPete
No, but there is a petition to remove a Gandhi statute in England. If we look hard enough, we will find faults in all historic and present day figures. We are human. We live in a fallen world.
There was only one person who lived a faultless life. Who knew no sin. Yet, I don’t see many people clamoring to have His statute put up in the center of town.
I am all for taking down the Confederate statutes and putting them in museums or historical sites. But what will it accomplish? It won’t change our history. Maybe, we should just start looking at what makes us the same. Looking for things we have in common and go from there. Instead of trying to separate ourselves, let’s celebrate our commonalities and try to learn from each other. Respect each other’s history and strive to make this world a little bit better.
There was only one person who lived a faultless life. Who knew no sin. Yet, I don’t see many people clamoring to have His statute put up in the center of town.
I am all for taking down the Confederate statutes and putting them in museums or historical sites. But what will it accomplish? It won’t change our history. Maybe, we should just start looking at what makes us the same. Looking for things we have in common and go from there. Instead of trying to separate ourselves, let’s celebrate our commonalities and try to learn from each other. Respect each other’s history and strive to make this world a little bit better.
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