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9 hours ago, kingdong said:

It wasn,t just britain,all Europe was busy colonizing throughout the 19th centuary,and if you look back in history Britain was one of the fairer colonialists.

Indeed it wasn’t just Britain, but the statue that has been torn down in in Britain and hence this thread relates to the UK.

 

’Fairer Colonists’ 

 

A reminder of how lacking the teaching of Britain’s colonial past is. 

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26 minutes ago, baansgr said:

A very sad day...what's next, library books, paintings, renaming whole towns...I know of one dictactor that did the same in the last century....

I’m struggling to think who you are referring to.

 

Give us a clue, perhaps a statue of him in a public place.

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4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Useless mayor. Under his "reign" public toilets were unavailable in the center of London when I visited. Tourists had to pay to buy something at Maccers etc to be able to use theirs.

Strange how those statues were not a problem before SOME people in the UK went OTT hooligans protesters.

Remove the past, forget the past, don't learn from the past, repeat the past. Madness.

The statue was a misrepresentation of the past.

 

Removing the statue has not removed the past.

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54 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

The statue was a misrepresentation of the past.

 

Removing the statue has not removed the past.

A statue is just a statue. It represents only the person that it represents. Should Queen Victoria's statues be also removed as she was the monarch during the colonialist era?

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12 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

so once the statues are removed they'll start renaming streets

 

imagine having your address changed to '10 Diane Abbott Lane'

They already started renaming streets.

 

"Cochrane Street – named after Andrew Cochrane, an 18th-century tobacco lord – has been retitled Sheku Bayoh Street."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/glasgow-slaver-streets-renamed-by-anti-racist-campaigners

 

At least Diane Abbott street is pronounceable.

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1 minute ago, TopDeadSenter said:

They already started renaming streets.

 

"Cochrane Street – named after Andrew Cochrane, an 18th-century tobacco lord – has been retitled Sheku Bayoh Street."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/glasgow-slaver-streets-renamed-by-anti-racist-campaigners

 

At least Diane Abbott street is pronounceable.

Don,t forget Nelson Mandela house home to  delboy trotter

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14 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:

They already started renaming streets.

 

"Cochrane Street – named after Andrew Cochrane, an 18th-century tobacco lord – has been retitled Sheku Bayoh Street."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/glasgow-slaver-streets-renamed-by-anti-racist-campaigners

 

At least Diane Abbott street is pronounceable.

 

They should have just dropped the e and renames it Cochran Street.

 

I mean , come on everybody , we need to eulogize more musicians.

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8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

IMO this whole farce is just more evidence that Britain should drop the "Great" as it's a has been power, and hasn't been great since they let the US kick them out of the canal.

The term Great has nothing to do with the country proclaiming itself as powerful and great.

its a historical renaming - I think when Scotland became part of the UK.

 

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14 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

because once the takeover is complete, those people in a rubber dingy will be living in their utopia

They will be needing to keep those dingys in good repair then. Just in case.

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14 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Because no matter that Britain was built on such things as colonialism and slavery, it's a far, far better place to live than the <deleted><deleted> places they come from. Funny that.

 

 They interviewed one stepping ashore . He said :

 

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known.

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