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rushthatspeaks ([personal profile] rushthatspeaks) wrote in [personal profile] steepholm 2017-08-18 09:26 pm (UTC)

Yeah, if it has any actual historical or aesthetic merit put it in a museum, and if not just get rid of it, because a statue is an honor and an honor should be warranted. If they want to put up a sign saying 'this college founded by Cecil Rhodes who did the following list of terrible things and this short list of things we still kind of like, and here is what we are doing to fight his hideous legacy', sure, I can see an argument for that. But a statue says that we do not just remember, we respect and admire, so no.

In news that pleases me, a plaque in Arizona commemorating Confederate President Jefferson Davis was literally tarred and feathered the other day. Now that's public art!

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