Originally Posted by
Beanz
Originally Posted by
TitoFan
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/no...id=mailsignout
I remember in my discussions with Lyle about the removal of Confederate statues, where we basically agreed this was a bad move. I personally didn't mind the decision late last year to rename the Julian Carr Building in the Duke University campus... but have always agreed that removing Confederate statues is akin to that slippery slope that's always been talked about. You start there.... where does it end.
So to find this in the news today was a bit worrisome. Basically the university president is claiming that part of the university community has expressed their objections to the murals because, to quote the article,
"many have come to see the murals as at best blind to the consequences of Columbus's voyage" for indigenous people". Wow.
Don't even know where to start with that one... so many faults, misconceptions, and lapses in logic.
It is a bit difficult to know what to think when there are no images of the murals in the article. At least they are not destroying them with a knee jerk response. The demonstration to protest the apparent 'Offensive and stereotypical' portrayal of the Native Americans by some Vatican artist seems to have been conducted peacefully enough. It seems that the part of the University community that object are Native American. Does their opinion not count then?
Unless the murals depict Columbus gunning down Indians, I fail to see the grounds on which these people would object to them. To me it's not whether or not their opinion counts. But shouldn't it be weighed against the opinion of the majority?
Again, as with the Confederate statues issue, I stress that the emphasis should be on the treatment of the people
now. Whether it's blacks with the Confederate issue, or American Indians with the Columbus murals..... let's be real here.
Symbols of past history are just that. Shouldn't we be focusing on how these people are being treated nowadays, instead of the pointless eradication of centuries-old statues?
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