Vigilante statue wars come to Australia: "Hobart City Councillor Louise Elliot offers $1,000 reward for information after controversial Crowther statue vandalised" - some psycho Abo-sympathizer cut through the statues legs with a fucking angle grinder. I'm sure they won't be charged over this, too. - Kotaku In Action 2

Vigilante statue wars come to Australia: "Hobart City Councillor Louise Elliot offers $1,000 reward for information after controversial Crowther statue vandalised" - some psycho Abo-sympathizer cut through the statues legs with a fucking angle grinder. I'm sure they won't be charged over this, too. (archive.is)

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– bamboozler1 [S] 1 point 203 days ago +2 / -1

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...

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