How many statues do I need to destroy to make my heart kinder?

Richard Ingate
2 min readJun 10, 2020
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So it’s OK now?

Apparently it is acceptable to destroy statues of figures whose actions or beliefs are currently unacceptable. That was true for the Taliban too.

It’s a misunderstanding

Running around in the world destroying things and making people afraid to disagree with you publicly is a core…

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