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Originally Posted by Livia
If you look at all the statues in all the world a massive number of them depict questionable people. You going to pull them all down? Wouldn't it be better if people strived to understand the difference in values between now and then? Those values are vastly different. Queen Victoria, the most powerful woman of her time, did bugger-all for women and their struggle... should we tear her statues down?
Teach people the truth but understand that it happened in the past and that you're looking at it through contemporary eyes.
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Best to focus on what people do actually do and say rather than coulda shoulda, it's so easy to misrepresent people isn't it?
"Why should we not form a secret society with but one object," he once said, "the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire?"
Gotta love the Aryan dream.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32131829