Although I jumped in a bit later. Amongst the other participants, perhaps that had saved us some 30 new posts today 
I believe the University already released a statement backpedaling from their decision. Not gonna stop them from being taken to the cleaners in a wrongful termination suit.
Well I am glad to read this.
But mate, the fuck is going on in your country from (american standards) left and right. 
I don’t know if people are aware of this, but Tom Hanks has been cancelled, because of unsubstantiated rumours online about him getting on Epstein’s jet and visiting his paedo island.
Just imagine the roles and opportunities Tom Hanks would have been given if people hadn’t started these rumours. I can’t actually point to any damages, or roles he has missed out on, but you can’t deny or disprove that there might have been more work for him had people not started to cancel him.
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Since this (fabricated) tweet was very recent, we would have to wait and see a bit.
Also, you didn’t seem the type to use QAnon as inspiration.
You surprise me Jakey closer to your adversaries than one could have dreamt of.
Reuters factchecked Tom Hanks appearing in Epstein’s flight logs back in 2020.
Besides, if that’s the basis of your response it would seem you’re not even going to try and actually engage with the evident point of that post.
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check-tom-hanks-did-not-tweet-about-idUSL1N34B1QV
You’re a funny guy
Kathleen stock force to resign from Brighton university due views on biology (men can’t become women).
David scullion fired from charity due views on blm sued and won for wrongful termination.
Taylor Silverman abused bullied into silence when she disagreed with a male skater competing with the females. Had to quit tournaments
There are plenty of these stories focusing on big names that it won’t affect is disingenuous in my opinion. Penguins will never drop JK she is a cash cow if it were a small writer coming up it would of been a different story
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This is one of the more well known examples.
Lol, the whispers have been around for ages, amd Reuters factchecked these claims in 2020, like I just said. What are you even trying to say I’m wrong about?
This is not an isolated incident, just look how aggressive these students are and look how calm and reasonable the lecturer is.
This is happening everywhere, like people ripping down statues because “they” have decided they don’t want them.
These people are undemocratic and just bully others into believing their warped views on society.
I don’t think we’ll ever find out the true extent to what happened on that island.
Pulling down statues is a particularly stupid form of moral arbitration. Expecting people in the past to have lived by the standards of the 21st century is rather ridiculous.
I also think censoring History very often does not achieve what people expect it to. Is the idea (for example) that more people will condemn the memory of the Confederacy if there are no statues of its generals in the Southern United States and less people will consider them heroes? Telling people you can’t commemorate something can just as easily lead people to react against that idea and go out of their way to learn about it.
You can’t really effectively learn about an important struggle against slavery if you edit the slaveholders out of it.
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The idea is that erecting statues is venerating and celebrating the figures depicted, and that this is inappropriate given what those figures stood for, and pretty much a slap in the face of the US citizens whose ancestors would have been subjugated and enslaved by these very people.
We don’t need statues of Hitler to be erected publicly in order to reflect on the realities of World War 2, in order to ensure the mistakes of the past aren’t repeated. That’s why there aren’t any. The erection and subsequent retention of statues isn’t in any way essential to the preservation of history and I contest the notion that removing them equates to censorship of history.
We erect statues of figures because we think they deserve to be celebrated, not because we want to ensure that the historical record is preserved, which is why all these Confederate statues are in the South and not the North, because it’s about celebrating the figures.
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As long as the statues aren’t being destroyed, then who cares.
Who’s life has gotten better since pulling those statues down? Has any ill feeling gone? And who was celebrating these people as hero’s in current era?
All symbolism that has 0 affect do we then start tearing down statutes of all people with shady history?
If they have 0 effect, then it doesn’t matter if they are left standing or not.
There is one thing which is just erasing and hiding away history. Why can’t there be a plaque saying who there person was and what they did good or bad?
As far as I am aware, statues that have been pulled down are then put into museums. Which is where they should be.
It’s destroying historical artefacts that is abhorrent.
Actually, Germany has an abundance of Nazi propaganda, of statues and artifacts. Even examples of their posters are preserved. For that matter, Hitler’s desk sits in a glass case in the German Historical Museum in Berlin, not too far from an RAF bomber engine extracted from a shot down craft in the war. The problem is not possessing and displaying these things, it is the context in which this happens.
One of Germany’s real historical strengths is they are very in touch with those horrific aspects of their history and educate on and discuss them openly.
In the case of Confederate artefacts, destroying them is not the way to learn from history. Relocating, putting them in museums, sure. But censoring the Confederacy out of existence won’t accomplish what people who tear down it’s statues want that action to.