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minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down3·edit-23 months agoStatues are icons meant to glorify history. You don’t learn anything from a statue, it’s just a celebration. Let’s glorify good history and not bad history.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down11·3 months agoLet’s just erase the past then. That’s what we do apparently. Instead of addressing historical injustices we just forget they happened.
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down3·3 months agoNo one learns history from statues,. The past will still be there in textbooks and we can teach everyone what an irredeemable fucking monster he was.
Statues are icons meant to glorify history. You don’t learn anything from a statue, it’s just a celebration.
Let’s glorify good history and not bad history.
Let’s just erase the past then. That’s what we do apparently. Instead of addressing historical injustices we just forget they happened.
No one learns history from statues,.
The past will still be there in textbooks and we can teach everyone what an irredeemable fucking monster he was.