Posted on 06/09/2020 12:29:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
People Before Profit has called on local authorities in Galway to remove monuments, which the party claims glorify slavery and racism.
It wants a monument to Christopher Columbus in Galway to be taken down.
It is also seeking the removal of a plaque in Tuam honoring Major Richard “Dick” Dowling, who served with the Confederate army in the US.
The Columbus monument, close to the Spanish Arch, was erected to mark the quincentenary of his 1492 voyage to America.
The explorer is reported to have visited Galway around 1477 and the sculpture references his trip to the west of Ireland. …
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It’s like the taliban removing those ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan all over again.
(Nana slowly shakes her cute lil confounded head)
I’d rather glorify a bad past than honor the douchebaggery of living politically correct nitwits.
They won’t be happy until all history starts this morning. Every day.
Can we mention a certain Briton who was enslaved by Irish raiders? I think he went by the name of Patrick. Or the Irish enslaved by Muslim coastal raiders? The million or so Gauls enslaved after Caesar’s conquest? Funny thing. All of the above enslaved were “white”.
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