And so the statue of Edward Colston is to make its way to a museum after all. As it should have done many years ago.
There is hilarity in certain places today that the old Manchester Guardian sided with its advertisers to demand the sacking of the Manchester cotton workers who refused to handle the produce of slavery.
But there were many, many events like that. It will not do to say that "people cannot have been expected to know any better at the time" about slavery. Plenty of people did, and they acted accordingly.
Not least, that is the real history, heritage and culture of the white working class. Put up monuments to that.
The manner in which it was taken down was unlawful. If Far Left mobs can be allowed to vandalise public property without any consequences then other movements may do the same in future. That’s the obvious point.
ReplyDeleteProsecuting people for tearing down a statue of a slave trader would not be a good look for the Police or the CPS.
DeleteHow many of these articles could you write in 300 hours?
ReplyDeletePossibly millions. I have been doing this a very long time.
DeleteThat’s not the point-people should always be prosecuted for breaking the law, no matter why they did it. Otherwise other movements could decide to do the same. The law either applies to everybody or it applies to nobody, a point that also applies to those violent protestors attacking police officers and bystanders.
ReplyDeleteThey think their cause is so good that they’re above the law and don’t realise the same belief could be turned against them and their cause by others.
Prosecution has never worked like that. And the Left is routinely on the receiving end of extreme violence either directly from the forces of law and order, or at least with their very active connivance. All that you have to worry about is that an inanimate object might temporarily be thrown into the sea.
Delete63 people have been injured during these protests in Britain including police officers and in the US the protestors have looted, maimed and killed. They’ve done a lot more than vandalise statues. As I say, if leftwing protesters are above the law then so are their opponents.
ReplyDeleteThis is a simple point and in a law governed democracy like ours it’s amazing people have to make it.
"Their opponents" always have been, at least while engaged in that "opposition".
DeleteAnd America is in any case a whole other story. Anyone doubting how utterly alien its culture was ought to have been shaken out of any "Anglosphere" delusions by recent and ongoing events.