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Originally Posted by station
Replacing a statue with a plaque is erasing history to you? Why is a statue so important?
There is a time and place for everything. Not all progress can and will happen at once. Right now there is an appetite for reconciliation with indigenous peoples. Discussing the famous five honestly is potentially worthwhile but that is not what is being discussed. Should reconciliation wait until we are ready to deal with all wrongs of history all at once?
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That's the thing. Whitewashing history is not progress. Also, you may want to make this only about removing a statue, but it's obviously a larger issue as this isn't the first time we've been through this. Langevin Bridge ring a bell? It's clear that this campaign to "recontextualize history" is going to be pushed until people push back. So, again: how far do we allow this alleged "reconciliation" to go and how many historical figures are erased before the inevitable push back blows up in everyone's faces?