When statue removal goes wrong

Nobby the Bastard · Harley Gaydar Joined: 16 Aug 2013 Karma :

This is where things go too far.

Basically, the organisation that was set up by slavers but is doing good works and acknowledges their history are expected to give up their works is a step too far.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-60124141

I don't expect repentance to go to the point where they stop doing good stuff. It's a bit different when there's a statue is lording over people. This organisation knows where it came from, doesn't deny the harm it caused but has moved on and quite frankly it's an exemplar of how things should be done.
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Kawasaki Jimbo · World Chat Champion Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Karma :

Time to raze all of Bristol to the ground and start again, the whole place is obviously contaminated. Wink

chickenstrip · Super Spammer Joined: 06 Dec 2013 Karma :

Don't people have better things to do than worry about statues? Rolling Eyes

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doggone · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 May 2004 Karma :

If they give it to the council sooner or later they will invent a 'valid' reason to nibble into it and with precedent develop it more and more.

Polarbear · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Karma :

Slavery happened. Sending boys up chimneys happened. Child prostitution happened. Nuclear bombs dropped on Japan happened.

Perhaps we ought to concentrate on todays ills, not the 17th century's that no one can change.
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Bhud · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Oct 2018 Karma :

When someone wants to show who rules the streets that's one thing.

When someone wants land, that's quite another. I'm suspicious. Would that land be suitable for housing, by any chance? Where there's land, there's a plan.

Weisse Schlange · Spanner Monkey Joined: 09 Nov 2020 Karma :

People are wankers. Sometimes they look for any excuse to be wankers.
Whatever cause they find, it never changes the underlying fact that they are , indeed, wankers.
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