#Statues

Michael Healey

healeytypes

Viable opposition is about creating a narrative people can attach themselves too. A way to order the inchoate frustrations someone is feeling into a rational story they can claim as

Abandoned America 🏚️🇺🇲

abandonedameric

AMERICANS: Don't tear down our racist statues because HISTORY!ALSO AMERICANS: Let's destroy the remains of a village that is literally 10,000 years old so we can put up a roundabouthttps://sign.moveon.org/petitions/preserve-the-10-0

Emma Dabiri

EmmaDabiri

My issue with the removal of the statues outside the #shelbournehotel is the fact that it conflates the unique barbarity and enduring legacy of the trans Atlantic slave trade with

Sana Saeed

SanaSaeed

cool about taking down episodes, changing names and stuff, but what’s going on with defunding police & holding the cops who killed Taylor and McClain accountable? cosmetic changes are ultimately

Take The “Chris” Out of Christmas

brujacontumbao

I get and resonate deeply with people’s frustration with energy suddenly being put into these seemingly pacifying name changes and settler colonial statues being taken down, but I think we

Vanessa Kisuule

Vanessa_Kisuule

What a lush thing to be interviewed by a publication I hold in such high regard. I have a silly but persistent dream of one day having my own byline

Michael McAuliff

mmcauliff

Nancy Pelosi wants to remove 11 Confederate statues from the Capitol. So, who are we talking about?First on the list is Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. Second, Robert E.

Anand Giridharadas

AnandWrites

When I was a student in history classes, a common mantra was: Don't judge past people by present standards; that's anachronistic.One of the shifts happening now is the opening up

Jules Suzdaltsev

jules_su

Last year my Jewish grandmother spent hours begging me not to move to Berlin because she still associates it with Nazism, and then this week she called to tell me

Hammy ✈

e2pilot

How Richmond Mayor Stoney bypassed the laws of Virginia and took down Statues...A Thread:1904 laws, updated in the 1990's, allowed war memorials for any war to be erected and forbid

Lilah Sturges

LilahSturges

A thread about statues. The point of a statue is not, as many people seem to think, to keep history alive. No one who commissioned a statue of George Washington

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

I've just seen that Cyril Mango has died, after a long career. A moment to recommend his delightful 1963 paper “Antique Statuary and the Byzantine Beholder” (https://doi.org/10.2307/1291190 ). A thread of

Atticus Finch

Atticus59914029

Friends the Stonewall Jackson monument in Richmond was taken down today. Much as Paul proclaimed he was a Pharisee and the son of a Pharisees, I consider myself as a

Kyle Shideler

ShidelerK

So there are no doubt many wise scholars to whom one might turn to understand the awful iconoclasm we are facing. But because I’m a geek, my thought turned immediately

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

Fascinating 6/17/20 @QuinnipiacPoll results for the question "Do you support or oppose removing Confederate statues from public spaces around the country?". 52% overall say yes... but check out the wide

Susanne Bobzien

Susanne_Bobzien

Why Aristotle shouldn't be cancelled. (Last paragraph of my Afterword to The Philosophy of AristotleSignet/Penguin 2011): "In conclusion, a general remark about reading Aristotle. Aristotle never doubts that there are

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