‘There is an overwhelming majority that does not share this decision,’ President Luis Lacalle Pou says, amid political row.
  • deafboy@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 year ago

    It’s funny how humans get confused when an art piece represent a horrible ideology. We tend to either adore something, or hate it.

    Preserve, and provide context! Those who destroy statues tend to forget the mistakes that lead to their creation in the first place.

  • Sem@lemmy.ml
    02·
    1 year ago

    They weren’t hit by WWII, Nazism is not a tragedy for them, so why should they care?

    • FaceDeer@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      It’s simply historically significant. If an American bought the Mona Lisa and declared that he intended to eat it I’m sure there’d be plenty of outcry even though Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t American.

      • Sem@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        Better analogy is inside the publication as a quote of Aldo Lamorte, a member of parliament with the president’s conservative National Party:

        “The Roman Coliseum was NOT destroyed because Christians were killed there.”