| Comment | > none of us are campaigning to have that removed.
So far at least. Statues haven't been getting a lot of attention until just recently, I expect the Council will be reviewing which ones they have up.
Here's the trouble with the history argument. Unless the Statue has a plaque that says "This guy was a right knob who thought women were too stupid to be educated" or "This guy got rich off slavery, but he built an opera house so we put a statue up for him", the statue isn't doing anything for history. Most of the time they either have no plaque, or the plaque actually talks about what a great person they were. Museums are for remembering the past, statues exist to honour people.
If you leave a statue up, or name a street after a person, you're saying "We are proud of this person and what they did". If you pretend like they weren't a mysoginist or a racist, then you're censoring history. If you acknowledge that they were a mysoginist or a racist or a slaver, and leave the statue up, you're saying "We think this Mysoginist/Racist/Slaver deserves a statue". |
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