Edward Colston Statue Replaced By Protest Figure

[Lex Luthor]

1 minute ago, casualbystander said:

if you want to make such a fuss about slavery how about the romans??? or Italians as we now know them. the Romans were the biggest slave traders ever? dont see many protests around Roman architecture or Roman statues. what about la scala?? or pizza express?

Yes, if there's statues of Roman slave traders, let's get rid of them too.

[casualbystander]

Just now, Lex Luthor said:

Yes, if there's statues of Roman slave traders, let's get rid of them too.

well what a sad world if we have to get rid of all history?  we learn from history.

[tinfoilhat]

9 minutes ago, casualbystander said:

well what a sad world if we have to get rid of all history?  we learn from history.

We’ve been binning history for various reasons - and not just in our country - for centuries. So have other countries. The Egyptians were erasing any mention of Tutankhamun thousands of years ago!

[Pettytom]

11 minutes ago, casualbystander said:

well what a sad world if we have to get rid of all history?  we learn from history.

We are also easily distracted by trivia.

 

Such as statues.

[Lex Luthor]

17 minutes ago, casualbystander said:

well what a sad world if we have to get rid of all history?  we learn from history.

Get rid of them leering over black people on their way to work every day and put them in museums - the only decent place for them.

[hobinfoot]

42 minutes ago, Pettytom said:

I think you are holding a minority view there.

 

Maybe you could work on an “easily offended by things that aren’t remotely offensive” salute. Maybe, fingers in ears or something like that. And I never compared Jen to a Nazi it’s the salutes that bothers me.

 

42 minutes ago, Pettytom said:

I think you are holding a minority view there.

 

Maybe you could work on an “easily offended by things that aren’t remotely offensive” salute. Maybe, fingers in ears or something like that.

The raised fist can be used has a symbol of unity but it can also be used to promote and has been Black Power. I have no problem people being proud of their ancestry but I’m against anyone promoting theirs above another. I never compared Jen to a nazi it’s the salutes that bother me.

Edited July 16, 2020 by hobinfoot

[Michael_W]

20 minutes ago, Lex Luthor said:

Get rid of them leering over black people on their way to work every day and put them in museums - the only decent place for them.

Those statues didn't stop black people coming here to live and work for the last 60 years or so, why the  big issue now ?

Oh yes because some idiot cop in America killed a black man, your typical of the many middle class apologists trying to shift the guilt elsewhere so as to waiver your own prejudices, as seen in the mainstream media for the last couple of months, people falling over themselves to virtue signal and make out it has nothing to do with them ...... sorry love your guilty by association like the rest of the white privileged folk, 400 years of oppression remember !

So don't go trying to point the finger elsewhere to make yourself feel better in 'White Saviour' fashion, people like you make me laugh, the 'temporary' statue of some unknown person has rightly come down and the majority of people in Bristol will probably not want it back, despite what the noisy minority think, I'm sure there will be somebody more worthy of having their statue erected in it's place !

Edited July 16, 2020 by Michael_W

[retep]

As Bristol was willing to take Colston's money that he made from the slave trade should we get rid of Bristol?

[Lex Luthor]

37 minutes ago, Michael_W said:

Those statues didn't stop black people coming here to live and work for the last 60 years or so, why the  big issue now ?

Oh yes because some idiot cop in America killed a black man, your typical of the many middle class apologists trying to shift the guilt elsewhere so as to waiver your own prejudices, as seen in the mainstream media for the last couple of months, people falling over themselves to virtue signal and make out it has nothing to do with them ...... sorry love your guilty by association like the rest of the white privileged folk, 400 years of oppression remember !

So don't go trying to point the finger elsewhere to make yourself feel better in 'White Saviour' fashion, people like you make me laugh, the 'temporary' statue of some unknown person has rightly come down and the majority of people in Bristol will probably not want it back, despite what the noisy minority think, I'm sure there will be somebody more worthy of having their statue erected in it's place !

Your bitter comments are not going to stop me being happy about activism making the world a better and fairer place and wanting to celebrate it.

 

I'm glad people like me make you laugh because it sounds like you desperately need to do that.

Edited July 16, 2020 by Lex Luthor

[tinfoilhat]

14 minutes ago, retep said:

As Bristol was willing to take Colston's money that he made from the slave trade should we get rid of Bristol?

No, we shouldn’t get rid of Liverpool either. Maybe we don’t celebrate slavers and do more to acknowledge their role in slavery?