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minus-squarequeermunist she/herlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·edit-27 hours 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-up2arrow-down7·6 hours 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/herlinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down1·edit-26 hours agoNo one learns history from statues. We don’t have any statues of Hitler but you certainly know who he was. 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. We don’t have any statues of Hitler but you certainly know who he was.
The past will still be there in textbooks and we can teach everyone what an irredeemable fucking monster he was.