Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 11:18:34 GMT
The “barbarians” of Milan Just Wanted to Remind Us of These Simple Facts. It is Certainly Interesting to Note That the Majority of Political Leaders, Intellectuals and Journalists Outraged by the Current Wave of "Vandalism" Never Expressed Similar Indignation at the Repeated Episodes of Police Violence, Racism, Injustice and Systemic Inequality Against Which the Protests Are Directed . They Must Have Felt Quite Comfortable in That Position. Many of Them Even Praised the Contrary Iconoclastic Storm Years Ago, When Statues of Marx, Engels and Lenin Were Torn Down in Central and Eastern Europe.
While the Prospect, Even These Types of Monuments is Intolerable and Overwhelming, They Are Very Proud That the Statues of Confederate Generals, Slave Traders, Genocidal UK Mobile Database Kings, Architects of White Legal Supremacy and Propagandists of Fascist Colonialism Constitute the Historical Heritage of Western Societies. In This Way, They Insist on Pointing Out That "We Will Not Erase Any Trace or Figure From Our History." in France, Demolishing the Monumental Vestiges of Colonialism and Slavery is Generally Characterized as a Form of "Communitarianism", a Word.
That Currently Has a Pejorative Meaning, Since It Implicitly Means That Such Vestiges Bother Exclusively the Descendants of Slaves and Colonized Peoples, Not to the White Majority, Which Sets the Aesthetic, Historical and Commemorative Norms That Frame Public Space. In Fact, Very Often France 's Supposed "Universalism" Has an Unpleasant Flavor of "White Communitarianism." the “iconoclastic Fury” That is Currently Spreading Through Cities on a Global Scale Demands, Just as Its Ancestors Demanded, New Rules of Tolerance and Coexistence. Far From Erasing the Past, Anti-racist Iconoclasm Entails a New Historical Consciousness That Inevitably Affects the Urban Landscape. The Statues in Dispute Celebrate the Past and Its Actors, a Simple Fact That Legitimizes Their Removal.
While the Prospect, Even These Types of Monuments is Intolerable and Overwhelming, They Are Very Proud That the Statues of Confederate Generals, Slave Traders, Genocidal UK Mobile Database Kings, Architects of White Legal Supremacy and Propagandists of Fascist Colonialism Constitute the Historical Heritage of Western Societies. In This Way, They Insist on Pointing Out That "We Will Not Erase Any Trace or Figure From Our History." in France, Demolishing the Monumental Vestiges of Colonialism and Slavery is Generally Characterized as a Form of "Communitarianism", a Word.
That Currently Has a Pejorative Meaning, Since It Implicitly Means That Such Vestiges Bother Exclusively the Descendants of Slaves and Colonized Peoples, Not to the White Majority, Which Sets the Aesthetic, Historical and Commemorative Norms That Frame Public Space. In Fact, Very Often France 's Supposed "Universalism" Has an Unpleasant Flavor of "White Communitarianism." the “iconoclastic Fury” That is Currently Spreading Through Cities on a Global Scale Demands, Just as Its Ancestors Demanded, New Rules of Tolerance and Coexistence. Far From Erasing the Past, Anti-racist Iconoclasm Entails a New Historical Consciousness That Inevitably Affects the Urban Landscape. The Statues in Dispute Celebrate the Past and Its Actors, a Simple Fact That Legitimizes Their Removal.