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Post by granty on Aug 23, 2017 19:26:33 GMT
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Post by sherri on Aug 23, 2017 22:22:36 GMT
I disagree with the idea of demolishing Nelson's Column. It's getting ridiculous.
I think that apart from the terror they are causing to living people, the worst thing about ISIS is that they deliberately destroy so many ancient artifacts & try to wipe out the cultural heritage. This includes mosques, temples, churches, arches, statues, and buildings that date back a couple of thousand years.
People in England who call for the destruction of statues and old buildings etc just because their ideology doesn't align with it nowadays are vandals no better than ISIS.
Of course a lot of people in the past had ideas or beliefs that aren't in sync with the modern era. But they're part of history.
You don't achieve anything by trying to pretend the past never happened. If things continue like this, we'll have to tear down statues every generation because ideas change.
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Post by sherri on Aug 23, 2017 22:29:25 GMT
PS I don't think it will happen, it is one vigilante commenting but wiser heads will prevail.
I'd be disappointed, you know, if I ever get over to England only to find half the historic sites pulled down because they didn't match today's political correctness.
I'd like to think I have enough brains to be able to work out, for example, that if I see the Tower of London, with its history of torture, I would realise that's not the norm for prisoners these days.
Any plans to demolish it because of its history?
And should Hitler's bunker be destroyed because most people aren't Nazis any more? No. I'd also like to think I could view it as an historic site, it doesn't mean I have to be a Nazi. My son visited the Eagle's Nest last year when he was in Germany & was very interested. In the history. |
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Post by granty on Aug 24, 2017 19:52:33 GMT
I agree with it, the whole of London should be pulled down. Theres no English live there anyway.
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Post by sherri on Aug 24, 2017 22:57:54 GMT
I think James Cook could also vie as one of the greatest sailors or explorers the world has ever seen. Some of his map work was still being used on world maps up till the 1970s.
Yet you would think his exploration along the Australian coast that led to colonisation a few years later was evil-it is labelled as an invasion.
I think the people who talk like this overlook historical fact. Do they really think no one else would ever have come to settle here if the English hadn't? Do they think this could have remained the only continent with people untouched by the 21st century?
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