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I Hate The Way This World Has Become

Cervantes statue vandalized by thug protesters. He was enslaved when the boat he travelled in was attacked by pirates, and only released when his family paid a ransom.

But it would be too naive to think the statue was vandalized out of ignorance. It has because Cervantes was white in a time where whites colonized the world. George Washington's statues are vandalized because he was white in a time where slavery is the past.

BLM and other protestors want to destroy the past, a past they hate, and replace it with their ideas of a new world. Their mindset is the same French revolutionaries or Russian
Bolsheviks used to have. If they reached power some day, their Robespierres and Stalins would soon come out.

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SW-User

[quote]BLM and other protestors want to destroy the past, a past they hate,[/quote]

With history of some of the founding fathers owning slaves/ raping them or supporting the killings of Indigenous Americans and other historical figures who fought to keep slavery alive and well, I wouldn’t glorify that past either. There is a reason why some of those statues are coming down. Is it best to destroy them? No. Better to remove them and place them in a museum.

Cierzo · M

@SW-User It is a sign of lack of maturity to try to change what cannot be changed. Rioters do not have any vision of future, just hate.

SW-User

@Cierzo well obviously you can’t change history, but a statue? All it takes is to sign a petition to get one taken down and replace it with some other historical figure. And maybe that’s what some rioters want to happen.

Cierzo · M

@SW-User That would be different. But doing so takes arguments. Arguments on both sides, those wanting to replace the statue and those wanting to keep it.

Too complicated in our emotional times. Better feel offended.

rckt148 · 61-69, M

@Cierzo A poll was recently taken with older black people at the center of it ,
Those who would know more about how things were before the 60's
Most said they would vote to leave the statues where they are .
As you said ,its history and it can't be changed ,but the monuments can serve as a reminder how far we have actually come ,and not to repeat that history again .
Today the mindset is to remove everything that offends someone ,
Well we are not all the same ,so when that goal is reached ,
What will be left ?