#Statues

Umair Rasheed

Umairrasheed1

This article is a great example of comparing apples and oranges. [thread].https://www.dawn.com/news/1565493/dont-tear-down-statues 1. Removal of racist colonists' statues is an expression of protest by violently marginalized communities

Jason Howerton

jason_howerton

It’s a lot easier to tear down some statues, burn books, and erase history than it is to do the hard fucking work of addressing our actual issues, starting with

Don Watkins

donswriting

This is totally wrong, IMO. 1. There is a glaring difference between founders and confederates. Founders are celebrated for creating a system based on individual rights, but didn't fully live

Mikel Jollett

Mikel_Jollett

These are people who still won’t accept the results of the Civil War. Of course they won’t accept that their man baby king lost. White grievance is BUILT on the

kamamaclean

kamamaclean

Thoughts on statues, a thread. Many public statues in colonial India commemorated acts of state violence. Among these, especially prominent were statues of ‘mutiny heroes’, including men responsible for ordering

Noah Berlatsky

nberlat

re grant and antisemitism, as General he issued a truly bigoted and indefensible order expelling Jewish people from KY, TN, and MS https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/general-grant-s-infamy Grant believed Jewish people were profiteering, i

Massimo Faggioli

MassimoFaggioli

short thread on history and statuesDo some statues deserve to be toppled and removed? Of course. My father went to school in Italy when fascism was largely still a taboo

EastEndWomen'sMuseum

EEWomensMuseum

A SHORT THREAD CONCERNING STATUES:There are more statues of goats than of Black women in the UK. (1/7) Now, we love goats. But have they contributed as much to this

Peter Mandler

PeterMandler1

For some reason, elite decisions without democratic participation to erect statues in the past are 'the people's preferences', but democratically elected local authorities' decisions to take down statues today are

Robert Jago

rjjago

This article implies that advocates of name changes are white washing history. But the article white washes history. It says the people who put up Sir JAM statue didn't think

Jens Notroff

jens2go

Statues aren‘t 'history'.Statues are negotiated memorials to *a* historic narrative put on public display.Removing these public displays means re-negotiating the narratives they represent. *That‘s* history. On a related note re

Noah Rothman

NoahCRothman

This is one in which the limiting principle is clear. This statue was erected in 1896, 64 years after Calhoun left office, and against the backdrop of an effort to

saranya 🌻

sxranya

In the context of talking about BLM & statues, Lisa Nandy said she would "love to see us putting up monuments to the work, for example that Blair & Brown

Luboš Motl

lumidek

Leftists are truly progressive these days. Near Dortmund, they unvealed a statue of... Lenin. All of us are millionaires because our cesspools are full of this shit and we can

︻╦̵̵͇̿̿̿̿ Justice Johnson╤

ACJJustice

Have you seen these cool Trump statues using live actors, going up in D.C? They were put there by Director Bryan Buckley under the Trump Statue Initiative. The first one

Scott Adams

ScottAdamsSays

If in 2020 you still think President Trump once called neo-Nazis “fine people,” you are a low-information voter. It is the most debunked fake news in American history. This is

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