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Originally Posted by spuzzum
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel_(sculpture)
We should take this puppy down as well. Heck, remove all statues and burn every book. These artifacts are there to reflect on history - good and bad.
It's like seeing these sanitizers everywhere now. Can't have enough of them to remove all the dirt.
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I guess it depends on what you think the statues are there for. Are they there to commemorate the people or to celebrate them. I think historically it's been the latter.
I'm not First Nations so I don't know what it feels like to walk past a statue celebrating JAM considering all the harm he caused to countless people in this country. As a person of Russian-Jewish origin the closest comparable I could imagine would be having a statue of Stalin displayed in Moscow or St.Petersburg. I don't think it would bother me that much but it would certainly make me question the motivation behind the statue.
I agree with Pepsi that the likely best solution is to keep the statues up but include a plaque that lists both the good and the bad. I also agree with Psychnet that, generally speaking, statues of politicians are dumb.