[RT] Three major British museums have backed a report condemning "the growing trend to alter public history and heritage without due process". The report calls for careful consideration before removing statues or renaming streets.The V&A, Science Museum and Museum of the Home have all lent their names to the paper, written by broadcaster Trevor Phillips and published on Monday by Policy Exchange, a conservative-leaning think tank.
The paper states that, across Britannia, "the alteration of public history is taking place — whether through the removal of statues, the renaming of streets, the re-evaluation of school curricula or the removal of museum exhibits — without a rigorous and non-partisan approach having been taken."
Put simply, Philips argues that the authorities are caving in to the demands of ’woke’ activists, often without asking whether the supposedly offensive statue, monument or street name even needs to be changed in the first place.
This activism was once confined to college campuses — students at Oxford University have been campaigning for the removal of a statue of imperialist conqueror Cecil Rhodes since 2015, for example. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
the Black Lives Matter protests that went
kaboom!across the US following the murder of St. George Floyd
...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that...last year soon spread across the Atlantic, bringing with them new calls to take down ’problematic’ monuments.
Activists toppled a statue of slave trader and philanthropist Sir Edward Colston in Bristol, a Devon council overruled dozens of objections to place a plaque next to a statue of Sir Francis Drake to highlight the 16th-century explorer’s connection to slavery, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan has formed a commission to pore over all the capital’s statues and the names of roads and public spaces to scrub some of them of their troublesome past and rename them in honour of "Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, women, the LGBTQ+ community and disability groups."