It hasn’t been pulled though, it will be back on the platform.
It’s all getting very silly now.
People need to think about what they’re actually adding to the cause instead of taking part in pointless self righteous acts.
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It hasn’t been pulled though, it will be back on the platform.
It’s all getting very silly now.
People need to think about what they’re actually adding to the cause instead of taking part in pointless self righteous acts.
TN Toffee
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Just for clarification, this bust is not in the United States Capitol building. It’s actually in the Tennessee State Capitol, but yes, our local Republicans voted yesterday to let it stay.
But forget the one in the Capitol, I wish they would do something about this ridiculous eyesore just off the main highway south of Nashville. This thing is almost as hideous as that Cristiano Ronaldo statue.
Yes, by a society that still honoured what he did. The Victorians clearly appreciated his legacy, which again - in context - speaks volumes about the attitudes of Victorian Britain to their predecessors. Again, something that can be learned from.
Instead, the desire is to apparently whitewash history and pretend that people were never honoured for their participation in the slave trade. Sorry but they were. People need to get their heads around that fact, and understand that just because they were doesn't mean they now are.
Foot Long Hot Dog
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That’s such a contorted position, and beyond bizarre.
There’s no longer statues of Hitler on the streets of Germany or Stalin in Russia, have they been expunged from history and was their removal ‘cultural vandalism’?
Genuinely have no clue what you're talking about. I don't even see how this post is related to my one before it.
coollino
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Ok, you are right. Well done.
I wasn't being funny, I just didn't think your post made any sense.
Such landmarks are everywhere in this city.
In 1757 a certain West Indies merchant & sugar refiner , namely George Campbell bought a large piece of land in the district of Everton .
He named his estate St Domingo from one of his ships that took a wealthy French ship as a prize off the coast of Santo Domingo.
Campbell frequented the West Indies throughout his trade.
A year later he built St Domingo house and named St Domingo Vale & Grove on his land.
He later went on to become Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
As the saying goes "If you know your history "
And the rest is history....our clubs history.
In 1757 a certain West Indies merchant & sugar refiner , namely George Campbell bought a large piece of land in the district of Everton .
He named his estate St Domingo from one of his ships that took a wealthy French ship as a prize off the coast of Santo Domingo.
Campbell frequented the West Indies throughout his trade.
A year later he built St Domingo house and named St Domingo Vale & Grove on his land.
He later went on to become Lord Mayor of Liverpool.
As the saying goes "If you know your history "
And the rest is history....our clubs history.
Foot Long Hot Dog
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There’s irony.
Disgruntledgoat
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People who celebrate losing the treasonous war they launched in defense of the racist right to own people are the weirdest.
coollino
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It did, you are just so blind in your argument that you don't get it.
Just beat me to it.
Sound, explain his post then, as he won't.
It was erected in 1895, long after he had died and was predominantly paid for by two organisations that have largely completely ignored his role in the slave trade.
Interesting bit on him here:
Renamed and shamed: taking on Britain's slave-trade past, from Colston Hall to Penny Lane
Buildings, streets and statues across Britain commemorate men who may have been philanthropists, but also owned and traded slaves. Now a number of cities are starting to face up to their histories
You're comparing iconography of genocidal despots to individual statues. One permeated entire societies and perpetuated a cult of personality, the other didn't.
There's also a time element to it - Germany not revering Hitler in the immediate aftermath of WW2 makes a lot more sense than the Mexicans obliterating El Castillo at Chichen Itza because they are horrified at the idea of human sacrifices.
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