Is this the end of historic street names?

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How the heck do you 'cancel' a statue? The statue was made whenever. It has existed since then. It is not humanly possible to cancel it. You could smash it to smithereens. Wouldn't change the fact that it was made in the first place. It is not possible humanly or otherwise to change history.

Or for that matter 'cancel' a street name - though you can indeed CHANGE one of them.

I'd like to cancel their interpretation of the English language for starters .... anyone else vote for that?
 
in this world my dear anything's is possibles look at how we are living longer . the great many operations done years ago people moaned with pain and also and look outside the universe one day we going to catch up with ourselves enjoy it as we go along o by the way 44 days in NHS REPAIRED BEYOND WHAT I EXPECTED still here and moving on VIC
 
nonethewiser said:
Worlds gone mad, really has.
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That's what I'm finding scary. I'm as sure as I possibly ever could be that the worthies of Bristol did not raise a statue to commemorate Colston for being involved in the slave trade but rather from what he chose to spend his profits on - ISTR building schools and things like that. I don't think someone who owned a shipping line even then, would have solely used it for the slave trade, hence not every penny Colston had in the bank, would have been from that. So cancel the schools then, and cancel every single person who ever profited ie received an education, from them. All tarred by the same utterly ridiculous brush - best find the descendants of those educated there and cancel them - chuck all of them in the sea a drown them shall we ........
 
trophywench said:
I'm as sure as I possibly ever could be that the worthies of Bristol did not raise a statue to commemorate Colston for being involved in the slave trade but rather from what he chose to spend his profits on - ISTR building schools and things like that. I don't think someone who owned a shipping line even then, would have solely used it for the slave trade, hence not every penny Colston had in the bank, would have been from that.
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Which is all fine, but the plaque seems a bit one sided: "Erected by citizens of Bristol as a memorial of one of the most virtuous and wise sons of their city AD 1895".

I think it could (in principle) have been resolved with some new plaque, but attempts failed. So (it seems to me) a good governmental response would have been to explore what kinds of democratic reforms might make such things easier to resolve. (Which might involve moving statues to museums in some cases.)

I don't see anything wrong with statues being changed around, street names being changed, etc. That kind of thing has always happened. There's reasonable arguments about speed (I don't want street names being changed every year).
 
ISWYM re the plaque wording, which I wasn't aware of. By all means chuck that in the sea!

(I wouldn't be surprised if Lady Sybil Vimes didn't request the CofE to remove the statue of St George killing the dragon on the front of Coventry Cathedral soon .......)
 
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