| Can of worms on 20:28 - Jun 8 with 2947 views | exiledclaseboy |
I’d call it more re-evaluation than revisionism. I’d never heard of the bloke before but according to that Western Mail article he “...executed dozens of slaves as governor of the island and notoriously authorised the torture of a 14-year-old girl.” |  |
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| Can of worms on 20:42 - Jun 8 with 2921 views | dickythorpe |
War hero in my school days in the 80's, racist now in 2020's.
Revisionism-
"The theory or practice of revising one's attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view." |  | | |
| Can of worms on 20:44 - Jun 8 with 2904 views | Best_loser |
Picton arcade next |  | | |
| Can of worms on 20:50 - Jun 8 with 2880 views | Brynmill_Jack |
Wait til Lohengrin finds out. He’ll chain himself to it |  |
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| Can of worms on 20:55 - Jun 8 with 2866 views | exiledclaseboy |
| Can of worms on 20:42 - Jun 8 by dickythorpe |
War hero in my school days in the 80's, racist now in 2020's.
Revisionism-
"The theory or practice of revising one's attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view." |
He can be both a war hero and a racist. They’re not mutually exclusive. Probably applies to most of that time. | |
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| Can of worms on 20:59 - Jun 8 with 2843 views | dickythorpe |
| Can of worms on 20:50 - Jun 8 by Brynmill_Jack |
Wait til Lohengrin finds out. He’ll chain himself to it |
The funny thing is not many know who the fûck he was  | | | |
| Can of worms on 21:00 - Jun 8 with 2835 views | Flashberryjack |
It started when Fulham took down the statue of Michael Jackson....the b*stards. |  |
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| Can of worms on 21:07 - Jun 8 with 2813 views | Joe_bradshaw |
Statues are going to become very much a thing of the past at this rate. Whilst I am in complete agreement with the sentiments about these historical figures I am somewhat uncomfortable with judging people from long ago by 21st Century values. |  |
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| Can of worms on 21:38 - Jun 8 with 2734 views | Catullus |
| Can of worms on 21:07 - Jun 8 by Joe_bradshaw |
Statues are going to become very much a thing of the past at this rate. Whilst I am in complete agreement with the sentiments about these historical figures I am somewhat uncomfortable with judging people from long ago by 21st Century values. |
I tend to agree with you and I've said this a few times. On reflection though, maybe those who achieved true greatness for good reasons could be left alone. We will all be forgotten with the passge of time so maybe those we've never heard of should just be quietly removed.
Teach about them in schools maybe but take their statues down, remove their names from buildings etc.
There are those with murky past actions though who still deserve their plinths, like Churchill. Lets face it, go back to the days of slavery and many white people were just as oppressed back then too. Those rich and powerful officers often treated their men as cannon fodder and looked down on them as entirely expendable comapred to career progression. The ruling classes treated anybody outside their social standing pretty much like scum.
On that thought, if we remove those not considered worthy there are always people to replace them with, Nightingale, Wilberforce, Howard and possibly loads of scientists, Patrick Matthew, Alfred Russel Wallace and of course Darwin |  |
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| Can of worms on 21:50 - Jun 8 with 2704 views | WarwickHunt |
| Can of worms on 21:00 - Jun 8 by Flashberryjack |
It started when Fulham took down the statue of Michael Jackson....the b*stards. |
Black Lives Matter! Oh, hang on... |  | | |
| Can of worms on 21:53 - Jun 8 with 2690 views | NotLoyal |
| Can of worms on 20:55 - Jun 8 by exiledclaseboy |
He can be both a war hero and a racist. They’re not mutually exclusive. Probably applies to most of that time. |
And you agreed I'm dangerous 😉 |  |
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| Can of worms on 21:53 - Jun 8 with 2689 views | exiledclaseboy |
| Can of worms on 21:53 - Jun 8 by NotLoyal |
And you agreed I'm dangerous 😉 |
Did I? | |
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| Can of worms on 21:56 - Jun 8 with 2679 views | Darran |
| Can of worms on 21:53 - Jun 8 by NotLoyal |
And you agreed I'm dangerous 😉 |
He didn’t get a chance you left a message in the bogs and ran like fućk. |  |
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| Can of worms on 22:09 - Jun 8 with 2655 views | Jack_Kass |
General Nott in the town centre will have to go aswell. | |
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| Can of worms on 22:23 - Jun 8 with 2609 views | Nortbankboy |
Extreme nationalism not good for anyone | | | |
| Can of worms on 23:05 - Jun 8 with 2540 views | Jack_Meoff |
When I was a child Jimmy Savile was celebrated for being utterly altruistic, a benevolent maker of children's dreams coming true, as well as being a friend of the royals and politicians of the day. Little did we know of his real role as a fixer, the little rapscallion. |  |
| If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever. |
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| Can of worms on 23:08 - Jun 8 with 2532 views | FieryJack |
| Can of worms on 21:38 - Jun 8 by Catullus |
I tend to agree with you and I've said this a few times. On reflection though, maybe those who achieved true greatness for good reasons could be left alone. We will all be forgotten with the passge of time so maybe those we've never heard of should just be quietly removed.
Teach about them in schools maybe but take their statues down, remove their names from buildings etc.
There are those with murky past actions though who still deserve their plinths, like Churchill. Lets face it, go back to the days of slavery and many white people were just as oppressed back then too. Those rich and powerful officers often treated their men as cannon fodder and looked down on them as entirely expendable comapred to career progression. The ruling classes treated anybody outside their social standing pretty much like scum.
On that thought, if we remove those not considered worthy there are always people to replace them with, Nightingale, Wilberforce, Howard and possibly loads of scientists, Patrick Matthew, Alfred Russel Wallace and of course Darwin |
John Howard's already got a statue - in St. Paul's Square, Bedford.
There are moves to erect one of Garry Monk in the same town. |  | | |
| Can of worms on 23:46 - Jun 8 with 2477 views | Joe_bradshaw |
In the summer of 2013 we might have erected a statue of Huw Jenkins at the Liberty Stadium.
Not too long after it would have been pulled down and thrown in the river. | |
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| Can of worms on 23:56 - Jun 8 with 2462 views | Luther27 |
I don’t suppose there are many statues of Idi Amin to pull down. | | | |
| Can of worms on 00:21 - Jun 9 with 2431 views | Jack123 |
Looking at the Wales Online article it says the Lord Mayor of Cardiff has called for it, after seeing all the unrest over the weekend, i think it's pretty pathetic for a man in his position to complain about it RIGHT now! I wonder if it bothered him before. |  |
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| Can of worms on 01:17 - Jun 9 with 2377 views | Glyn1 |
| Can of worms on 21:07 - Jun 8 by Joe_bradshaw |
Statues are going to become very much a thing of the past at this rate. Whilst I am in complete agreement with the sentiments about these historical figures I am somewhat uncomfortable with judging people from long ago by 21st Century values. |
"judging people from long ago by 21st Century values".
Although I mostly agree with that, I think that even in his time, murdering people and torturing children would have been considered to be wrong. If people then had known what he did and judged him by 19th century values, would he have been criticised? In what century would it be considered OK to do that?
Totally agree with the comment above that you can be a racist and a hero at the same time.
There's a plaque somewhere in America to Benedict Arnold, allegedly. When people complained, the town said that before he betrayed America he had saved it by his actions as a general. Mixed messages. [Post edited 9 Jun 2020 1:36]
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| Can of worms on 01:26 - Jun 9 with 2364 views | Glyn1 |
| Can of worms on 23:05 - Jun 8 by Jack_Meoff |
When I was a child Jimmy Savile was celebrated for being utterly altruistic, a benevolent maker of children's dreams coming true, as well as being a friend of the royals and politicians of the day. Little did we know of his real role as a fixer, the little rapscallion. |
"rapscallion"? I think you meant "rapist".
http://tonymountain.blogspot.com/2012/10/sir-jimmy-savile-scarborough-plaque.htm
It's "political correctness" gone mad, mad, mad … or maybe it isn't.
I wonder how many kids wrote to Jim'll fix it, asking if they could meet Gary Glitter? And how's he doing? Haven't heard any of his songs recently. A freelancer friend of a friend had the job of going through every Top of the Pops episode and marking where Savile appeared so that he could be deleted. Normally I disapprove of things like that, but not in that case. [Post edited 9 Jun 2020 1:28]
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| Can of worms on 01:50 - Jun 9 with 2341 views | Jack123 |
| Can of worms on 01:17 - Jun 9 by Glyn1 |
"judging people from long ago by 21st Century values".
Although I mostly agree with that, I think that even in his time, murdering people and torturing children would have been considered to be wrong. If people then had known what he did and judged him by 19th century values, would he have been criticised? In what century would it be considered OK to do that?
Totally agree with the comment above that you can be a racist and a hero at the same time.
There's a plaque somewhere in America to Benedict Arnold, allegedly. When people complained, the town said that before he betrayed America he had saved it by his actions as a general. Mixed messages. [Post edited 9 Jun 2020 1:36]
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The point is though where do you stop? Let's rip up all our history, Oh yeah and when we are finished with that let's start with the other races history and go through it with a fine tooth comb, to smash the fck out of it, it would be even better if we move to their country and do it. | |
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| Can of worms on 08:13 - Jun 9 with 2246 views | Best_loser |
| Can of worms on 23:56 - Jun 8 by Luther27 |
I don’t suppose there are many statues of Idi Amin to pull down. |
Pritti wouldn't complain about that one being smashed up | | | |
| Can of worms on 08:55 - Jun 9 with 2202 views | karnataka |
| Can of worms on 23:08 - Jun 8 by FieryJack |
John Howard's already got a statue - in St. Paul's Square, Bedford.
There are moves to erect one of Garry Monk in the same town. |
And Darwin has a whole shopping centre named after him in Shrewsbury. |  | | |
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