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Originally Posted by downquark1
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.
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I didn't say you were. I was saying that the people who want to provoke this debate aren't, all, people who could be summed up by Orwell's quote about the left and institutions.
I don't think this is a cultural revolution. I think it's just one of those flashpoints that will abate rather soon, likely after people go too far. I.E The people who want to remain Gladstone hall in Liverpool because his family had slave holdings.
The statue of slaveholders will likely go. However, there seems to be wider support for that even if they disagree with the way it was done. I think the idea of putting them in museums where they can be seen alongside the additional context of how they got their money is a sensible idea and isn't destorying the statue.