My preservationist heuristic: anybody who wants to tear down statues, blow up monuments, erase names from buildings, burn books, or obliterate the past in any way, is an enemy of civilization and a bad actor.pic.twitter.com/UOPbiJDyLB
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Does it matter when the statue went up? My understanding is some of the confederate statues are quite recent. Presumably as part of resistance to civil rights movement.
The answer to an offensive statue isn't to tear it down; it's to add new statues that symbolize different views and narratives. Like with free speech.
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If a statue depicts something horrible that doesn’t represent the values of our society, why keep it up for the general public? Why not move it to a museum?
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Presumably the statue represents some of the community, or it wouldn't be there. Moving it to a museum where a display can explain it's full context sounds reasonable to me.
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The speech if people that can afford statues you mean?
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It's important to remember monuments are the speech of the elite; still speech and part of history. But they don't necessarily represent the whole community. Statues of people like MLK indicate MLK is accepted among elites.
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You certainly shouldn’t censor history but statues are a weird way that we allow public land/funding to mobilize an agenda. A book can be ignored but a statue in the city square is a constant sign of belittlement for some.
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Some statues are functionally nothing but litter, though. No historical value, no artistic value, not even that old.
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Nah. We can use our heads here.
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You’re assuming that Geoffrey has one. He once did.
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