Anyone tearing down more statues of racists or slave traders should face the "full force of the law". mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
2. But Mr Johnson, presumably these GIs tearing down a symbol of racist oppression and supremacism are doing good?
3. And yet taking down Cecil Rhodes - an avowed racist, supremacist and oppressor to millions of black Africans is defended by your administration?
4. You can imagine the reply:
‘Ah but we were at war with nazi Germany. They committed unspeakable acts like concentration camps and torture which we had to stop. Mr Rhodes meanwhile is British and a part of our history’
‘Ah but we were at war with nazi Germany. They committed unspeakable acts like concentration camps and torture which we had to stop. Mr Rhodes meanwhile is British and a part of our history’
5. But we pioneered concentration camps, starvation as a weapon and even used chemical weapons on our unruly colonial ‘subjects’. Should we celebrate that? Because that’s what Rhodes represents
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6. ‘That’s not fare. We helped civilise the world.’
7. I’m sure the civilisations that existed before being brutally crushed and conquered ‘for their own good’ may have seen things slightly differently?
8. ‘But what’s that got to do with #GeorgeFloyd and racism now!?’
9. Everything. It’s the same justifying supremacist ideology that enabled slavery and then global, European conquest. That keeps the developing world where it is. That enables systemic racism.
10 ...That was enacted by men like Rhodes who’s actions you want to memorialise. How can we ever tackle structural racism when you insist on memorialising those who pursued & championed it?
‘Fair’. Apols Long thread.
