Why Statues In The First Place?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Statues are kind of society's celebration of individuals, basically saying to people "Be like that person and his values" and that's why people are protesting against statues because they are protesting against cultural racism.

That's why there aren't statues of nazis in Germany because that would be like sending a message: "Hate Jews, hate gays, hate everyone."

And that's why during the U.S. invasion Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled down.

But statues don’t completely represent the values of that individual. No one looks at a statue Martin Luther King, Jr and thinks, ‘He was a great man. I’ll cheat on my wife so I can be just like him’, or at a statue of Michael Collins (the Irish rebel, not the astronaut) and says, ‘Golly, maybe I should emulate him by murdering a few cops.’

Anyone who gets their sense of history from statues is playing a mug’s game.

Boru