BrikoX@vlemmy.net to World News · 2 years agoUruguay won’t melt huge bronze Nazi eagle into a dove, president sayswww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down10cross-posted to: world@lemmy.worldnews@beehaw.org
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minus-squareSemlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down16·2 years agoThey weren’t hit by WWII, Nazism is not a tragedy for them, so why should they care?
minus-squareFaceDeer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down5·2 years agoIt’s simply historically significant. If an American bought the Mona Lisa and declared that he intended to eat it I’m sure there’d be plenty of outcry even though Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t American.
minus-squareSemlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoBetter analogy is inside the publication as a quote of Aldo Lamorte, a member of parliament with the president’s conservative National Party: “The Roman Coliseum was NOT destroyed because Christians were killed there.”
They weren’t hit by WWII, Nazism is not a tragedy for them, so why should they care?
It’s simply historically significant. If an American bought the Mona Lisa and declared that he intended to eat it I’m sure there’d be plenty of outcry even though Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t American.
Terrible analogy.
Better analogy is inside the publication as a quote of Aldo Lamorte, a member of parliament with the president’s conservative National Party: