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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Replying to @HPluckrose
Time brings a certain neutrality to history which cannot be expected to exist whilst its effects are still being felt.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
We can have public attractions like The London Dungeons featuring The Inquisition because that danger is long gone.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @antagonist2000
I can't go. Its depresses me. The cruelty of humanity.
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I'm a historian! I just don't find the horror fun.
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