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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Yeah, but not everybody thinks that way. That's why we invented storytelling and religion and celebrity culture: a lot of people need examples in order to live better.
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This is a good point that I also thought about.
It’s interesting that in an age when 2 dimensional bland superheroes are praised and celebrated we are deconstructing all our historical heroes.
I do think that self reflection and historical deconstruction is a good thing for a society but at times, especially over the last 20 years, the west is starting to push that to an unhealthy extreme where nothing can be enjoyed or honored without controversy.
Yes, some statues do need to come down, the confederate statues erected during the 20th century are good examples of that, their entire purpose is essentially to give the finger to civil rights.
But now we are all whipped up into a frenzy and anything that eve has a minor taint of past injustices, even if only indirectly or thigh circumstance, must come down.
The call to remove Winston Churchill is maybe the best example of this. Yes, he held racists views of they day and wasn’t a progressive leader......... buuuuuuuuut he was instrumental in leading the UK through some of its darkest days and in defeating the fucking Nazis.
So sorry, his contributions there outweigh his negatives, it stays, and to quote him or say you admire him should not then equate to needing to apologize and being branded as a racist.
Ghandi is a terrorist to some, so even his statues have been vandalized, but again I feel his positive contributions towards the modern world outweigh his negatives.
A lot of this BS comes from the same angry SJW extremists who want to throw away modern science simply because it was largely built upon the work of white men over the last few hundred years (yes, this is a real thing).
If we really start digging even MLK doesn’t deserve a statue or to have facilities named after him because he cheated on his wife and had negative views towards homosexuality.
Is there racism to be tackled and conversations to be had over colonialism, yes. That said, the self hate is starting to get nauseating and actually distracts from making any real progress on equality.
I am aware of our atrocities but I am also proud of Canada, BC, and Vancouver. I am also proud of what my family has helped build over the last 120 years.
The most ironic thing is western nations are probably the best places that have ever existed for marginalized groups, yet by the attitudes expressed by so many you would think that they are the worst that have ever existed...