Like toppling a statue of Jefferson or similar in the States.
Ah, yes... about that.
From late 2020: No trial, no jail for man who destroyed [Christopher] Columbus statue https://archive.ph/yS0Le
Meanwhile, several other statues around the metro area have fallen prey to similar treatment at the hands of vandals with a social justice agenda.
A statue of former President George Washington that used to sit across from the Minneapolis Institute of Art was torn down and covered in paint on Thanksgiving.
That same day, a monument to the pioneers who settled in Minnesota was spray-painted with left-wing slogans.
There are probably several other stories like this, but this one popped into mind first as it was local and extremely similar.
Yeah, I was gonna say - Columbus was unambiguously a bad guy (even if his "discoveries" obviously resulted in current-day North America), but obviously that argument doesn't exactly fly for someone like Washington...
Although personally, I would go as far as to say that we shouldn't be tearing down any of these statues - Columbus, Lee, etc., included...
Ah, yes... about that.
From late 2020: No trial, no jail for man who destroyed [Christopher] Columbus statue
https://archive.ph/yS0Le
There are probably several other stories like this, but this one popped into mind first as it was local and extremely similar.
Yeah, I was gonna say - Columbus was unambiguously a bad guy (even if his "discoveries" obviously resulted in current-day North America), but obviously that argument doesn't exactly fly for someone like Washington...
Although personally, I would go as far as to say that we shouldn't be tearing down any of these statues - Columbus, Lee, etc., included...