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You are here: Home / Article / Modern Day Witchfinders Won’t End Hate By Pulling Down Statues – They’ll Only Fuel It

October 4, 2020 By Joan Smith

Modern Day Witchfinders Won’t End Hate By Pulling Down Statues – They’ll Only Fuel It

It’s one thing to provide a reasoned case for removing the Rhodes statue at Oriel College, but the current demands are based on historical illiteracy and censoriousness, and can only fuel resentment argues Inaya Folarin at the Daily Mail:

Those who now see our past as nothing but a tale of ignominy should recognise that it was Britain that invented parliamentary democracy, pioneered the concept of equality before the law through Magna Carta – and abolished the slave trade.

Filed Under: Article Tagged With: freedom of expression, history, statues

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