@Driver2 people why destroyed things and burned books and libraries for thousands od years, it sets us back and destroys our knowledge of history, it makes no sense at all
@MushroomFaerie Here in the UK some statues have been taken down. I have no problem with that if they were involved in the slave trade. I think the statues of Winston Churchill and Bomber Harris should be pulled down too. Tearing down a statue doesn't mean you are rewriting history.
@MushroomFaerie A lot of history wasn’t being taught about before. That’s how Black History Month (initially “week”) came about, because the history of black people’s contributions was largely ignored. Now, Florida’s proposed a bill to prohibit teaching history in such a way that “white children are made to feel uncomfortable”.
Florida bill to protect people from feeling “uncomfortable” with historical acts of their race, nationality or gender approved by Senate committee
Curious, coming from the people who like to say “facts don’t care about your feelings”. 🤨
@Entwistle Ironically I think keeping those statues up is rewriting history, how much of history has been white washed due to the slave south wanting to change the narrative? I remember hearing a lot of the confederate statues were because some group (daughters of the confederacy or something like that) put them up as a giant F you.
A lot of people assume those statues are there for reminders but they're really there as a big gigantic F you. Groups literally put them there after they lost the South by their own words, not out of any reminder. They're useless and keeping them there means we want to rewrite history.
@MushroomFaerie Books being burned because they depict ideas others don't want spread among their community based on personal preferences is one thing. Removing memorials commemorating a defeated and all-time low point in this nation is another.
Names of the Holocaust lost are etched into the stones along some walkways and porch steps in Germany; that's a tribute. What wouldn't work and what the US would outright condemn would be a 12-foot bronze statue of Hitler in front of the local government building.
No one's rewriting history - that facts of the age are undisputed. The question is whether to celebrate those who tried to pry apart this nation for the luxury of building it on others' backs or whether to celebrate all the achievements that have followed that time.
