Why, though?
Why is this the hill the left has chosen to die on..??
This predates Floyd. Arguably it goes back much further than that, but modern leftists... Seem to have made this "their lot", this last... Decade. Why? Why do we think that is??
Not books, not movies, but statues and buildings. Why the fuck is this the left's current game?
The culture wars have, as I say, come to my home city now (thanks, leftist cunts), and I do actually have a dog in this fight, as a result.
Tips on how to fight back appreciated.
Oddly, this is being done expressly against the wishes of ratepayers, only weeks before an election is due to take place, for that council. It is very, very dubious timing, to say the least.
I know these people personally (the councillors), so while they ain't gonna listen to me, you can sure as shit bet I am going to use that to my advantage, here, lol...
Who'd have thought this would come home to roost quite like this...
I'll first start with statues properties.
First of all, they are pretty much immortal. Unless a statue is subjugated to harsh weather or natural disaster, it can easily last for thousands of years. The oldest commonly known statue: Löwenmensch figurine is approx 35 to 40 thousand years old.
Now here's another property of statues.
It's a bookmark to culture that it created. By just looking and wondering about it you already set yourself up to ask questions about its origins. Questions like: Who made that statue? Where did the maker lived? What was he like? What kind of techniques or materials he used to make it? What motivated him? What is the statue purpose?
You ask yourself those questions and then you start to wonder, maybe even research about it if you're interested. You slowly gather knowledge, introduce yourself to new ideas and so on and so on. Chances are you might discover some old forgotten truths that could be very relevant and useful in modern age. You might even find out that old methods are in fact better than new ones.
Now imagine that powers that be see all this as a threat to their rule.
That's why.
Huh. The world's oldest statue is a lion-man. And one of the oldest paintings is of a deer-man. I like it.
History's sci-fi cyborgs. Take the traits of powerful things, and add them to humans. Now it's computers, back then it was deer and lions.