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It's one of the most awful things we nowadays do, erase and hide history because somone complains. I hope we stop before it's too late.
by emilfihlman 5y ago
It's one of the most awful things we nowadays do, erase and hide history because somone complains. I hope we stop before it's too late.
- alphabettsy 5y agoI’m not arguing one way or the other, but how does a window teach history? If we’re comparing it to statues what do they teach? What do they symbolize? Are we required to keep them forever? Under what circumstances is it acceptable to change, replace or remove them?
- jrmg 5y agoThis argument that we should keep statues (or windows) to remember history doesn’t seem to hold water to me. What are we remembering by keeping them? I don’t think that anyone argues that we should be _erecting_ statues to figures we don’t admire - who, if they’re intended as cautionary tales are surely _more_ worthwhile to think about. So it’s not just that they serve to help us remember figures from the past. So should we instead keep them to remember that the people _were_ once admired enough to get statues? That seems like a very odd second-order reason to keep something.
- Angostura 5y agoThere's quite a gap between "erasing" someone and celebrating them. It seems to me to be perfectly reasonable for an organisation to decide that they no-longer want to celebrate someone.