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Right. From my understanding, plenty of local people have taken issue with this statue for a while. Regardless of how one feels about any individual, there are
by daveslash 5y ago
Right. From my understanding, plenty of local people have taken issue with this statue for a while. Regardless of how one feels about any individual, there are more and there are less tasteful ways of depicting them with a statue, and this statue isn't in the "more" camp. The knee-jerk reaction many people will have will be to decry this as cancel-culture coming after Theodore Roosevelt; in my personal opinion, I think of this as cancelling _this one particular statue_, not cancelling _Roosevelt_.
- ashwagary 5y agoTeddy Roosevelt got millions of innocent people killed around the world and his decisions/treaties while in office made WW2 a lot more deadly. His family, including FDR, was interested in owning all of China, the source of their drug fortune. They fully supported imperial Japan's atrocities in Asia for decades and provided war supplies for this reason. He should never have been celebrated in the 1st place but drug fortunes buy great PR.