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...
It's absolutist moral crusade to them because they believe the people and ideas represented by the statues are evil oppression incarnate, even when they just depict people who were basically good but had any flaw.
I know this from personal experience where my relatives said they supported taking down the Lee statue, which was just a bronze guy on a horse with the sign only saying "Lee". And their reason they gave for wanting it torn down by a mob was the statue "oppressed African Americans". The only way this could oppress blacks is if they learned just enough to know the actual person wasn't bronze-colored, but too little to know Lee was a great general who was actually against slavery.
Wanting to tear down statues isn't the problem. Example, when Sadaam was overthrown they tore down his statues were destroyed but almost everybody is fine with that - because he actually was a sadistic evil person and the statues were actual symbols of oppression. The problem is that the left's moral judgements are completely insane and they're intolerant of any flaws no matter how small.