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Gandhi statue vandalized in Central Park
The vandal or vandals used red and black spray paint to deface the 6-foot-tall bronze statue of the social activist and its concrete base, located near the park’s main playground, with expletives and words such as “rapist.”
originally posted by: eletheia
originally posted by: NorthOfStuff
Time to head down to South America with jackhammers!
Those Aztecs used their temples for human sacrifices after all. Their art and statues depict it as well!
And maybe that's why we no longer have human sacrifices??
So when all the statues reminding people of the history of the slavery trade
are obliterated ........ Slavery could return??
Because as has been said many, many times ............
"Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It."
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: Gryphon66
History simply can't be judged through a modern lens. With the possible exception of issues that resulted in major international revulsion at the time the event occurred (such as the Holocaust), any attempt to apply modern morals to historical norms will ultimately bite people in the ass. It is extremely likely, for example, that someday in the future present humanity's body count of aborted babies will be widely viewed as a sign of 21st century barbarism. That's but one example of what will almost certainly be a laundry list of morally reprehensible or flat our stupid actions we presently view as mostly normal, but which future historians will struggle to defend.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Gryphon66
I did.
I thought I explained it to my satisfaction.
They should have stayed up with signs stating what they did, why they were over-thrown, the horrors and atrocities they employed.
It would have been educational.
It would have fought tyrannical symbols with actual free speech.
originally posted by: ketsuko
We should only allow statues if everyone can agree on them. I guess that means Lenin or Marx or whoever that is in Seattle gets to go.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: Gryphon66
History simply can't be judged through a modern lens. With the possible exception of issues that resulted in major international revulsion at the time the event occurred (such as the Holocaust), any attempt to apply modern morals to historical norms will ultimately bite people in the ass. It is extremely likely, for example, that someday in the future present humanity's body count of aborted babies will be widely viewed as a sign of 21st century barbarism. That's but one example of what will almost certainly be a laundry list of morally reprehensible or flat our stupid actions we presently view as mostly normal, but which future historians will struggle to defend.
Okay, so slavery was okay in 1789?
Thomas Jefferson didn't think so; he called it morally reprehensible.
Nice slice in for anti-choice there though. Kudos.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
originally posted by: ketsuko
We should only allow statues if everyone can agree on them. I guess that means Lenin or Marx or whoever that is in Seattle gets to go.
Would that be everyone in the country? A given State? Everybody within a certain radius of the statue?
Let's just agree that vandalism is vandalism and that a community can have a statue up or down as it decides?
Easy peasy.