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2017-05-24 Africa Subsaharan
The Buddhas of Bamiyan and the Possible origins of the left's war on statuary
[Telegraph - 9 April 2015] Cecil Rhodes statue pulled down in Cape Town.

Statue of Cecil Rhodes, the British mining magnate and African coloniser, removed from South Africa university to cheers from protesters.

A statue of Cecil Rhodes, the British mining magnate and African coloniser, has been pulled down from its plinth at the University of Cape Town after a prolonged protest by students.

The statue, which has occupied a prominent position on the South Africa university’s rugby fields since 1934, had been previously pelted with excrement and paint and wrapped in plastic bags by those who argued that it was offensive to black students and that memories of the brutal heritage Rhodes represented should not be preserved.
Buddhas of Bamiyan link
Posted by Besoeker 2017-05-24 01:57|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 Since history shows that all their Utopian schemes lead to infinite suffering, history is their biggest enemy: "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-05-24 02:14||   2017-05-24 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Pulled down by the descendants of those who invaded SA not long before Rhodes.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-05-24 06:53||   2017-05-24 06:53|| Front Page Top

#3 A good story.
What explains the New Orleans behavior?
Posted by Skidmark 2017-05-24 09:48||   2017-05-24 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Statue to be replaced with peacemaker Shaka Zulu.
Posted by borgboy 2017-05-24 15:32||   2017-05-24 15:32|| Front Page Top

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