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Originally Posted by Damien
We can quote Orwell all day:
Orwell wasn't someone who hated Britain but was also not shy about stating that it did bad things and in the above quote references how we were reluctant to discuss it.
It isn't hating Britain to want to account and talk about the bad as well as the good parts of our history. I think it gives you more credibility to be proud of, for example, defeating fascism in Europe if you also acknowledge the bad.
As I said I am ambivalent on the removal of the statue but I do think we shouldn't have statues glorifying people who were slave traders without adding that bit of context. Would you support keeping the statue and adding that context? Changing the inscriptions of such statues to show how their wealth was acquired, how the money that built these cities was acquired? There is also the idea of changing the statue to reflect it's being pulled down. That way both parts of the history are shown.
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I am not an English chauvinist, half my family comes from Eastern Europe. I can criticise England all day long. I am warning you about iconoclasm and cultural revolution.