Yeah. The argument re: history, is at best an argument against destroying such statues, not one for displaying them in prominent places.https://twitter.com/buffsoldier_96/status/897428410087223296 …
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We can see it as reminder of the danger of theocracy or any ideological enforcement & of man's inhumanity to man.But specific source is gone
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Mostly people wander around it and get a pleasurable thrill of horror. Because they are safe from it. The Inquisition is not coming back.
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Unthinkable to have an 'attraction' for the holocaust. Its impact is still felt by individuals & in sickening antisemitic rhetoric.
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History needs to take a different tactic here. A different attitude is needed. The artifacts & records need to be displayed differently.
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Museums and memorials needed to educate and pay tribute to the dead. With London Dungeons can take photos of self grinning in torture device
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History is important but so is the present day & this decides how we approach history and how we present it.
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Today's values and culture should never make us massage the facts of history but they should & do affect the attitude we take to them.
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More significant perhaps is that we do not use horrors of the past to symbolise our present, just as exhibition pieces.
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