Reply to "American History’s Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley"

BazMember VIP10 years

Eugene's Lair posted:
Baz posted:
Yogi19 posted:
I don’t think we should be erasing/sanitising history. We need to learn from the mistakes, and we can’t do that if we erase all the bad bits.
Exactly `Yogi
I agree too. Apart from anything-else, who decides what the "bad bits" are?

I had an argument with a friend about this: he believed pulling down the Confederate statues was morally justified. My response was to ask if he was also OK with ISIS destroying religious statues in Iraq and Syria, because they believed they were "morally justified" too...

Spot on Eugene thumb kiss

1/24/192:01 PM

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