"They came to the pillar of the White Hand. The pillar was still standing, but the graven hand had been thrown down and broken into small pieces. Right in the middle of the road the long forefinger lay, white in the dusk, its red nail darkening to black.
'The Ents pay attention to every detail!' said Gandalf." -- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
It's not iconoclasm. Nor is it mob revolution.
It's just looking after the details.
As such, it is right and good.
These figures, represented under dime-a-dozen state benefactor commemoration bronzes, are repellent not only for who they represent and what that person did, but also in that they feign to make an "official" minting of who that region's benefactor is.
In other words, THANK YOU SLAVE TRADERS WHO MURDERED SLAVES IN THE THOUSANDS FOR THE GENEROUS MAMMON YOU HAVE SO BENEVOLENTLY BESTOWED UPON US BRAVELY PAVING THE WAY FOR OUR WELL BEING!!!
And yet the world just spent the last three months exhausting its cosplaying energies in telling us who the REAL ESSENTIAL WORKERS are that build our civilization and keep it running. All the while writing headlines asking how the Bezos (whose bottom lines Spray Tan studiously padded out) could "make it safely to their yachts through the germ-ridden masses".
THANK YOU ESSENTIAL WORKERS! BUT PLEASE ESSENTIAL WORKERS DON'T TAKE DOWN THOSE STATUES OF THE MONEYED INTERESTS WHO MURDERED SLAVES IN THE THOUSANDS YOU RIOTING LOOTERS!
In truth, these protestors are not "erasing history". They are removing the "official" historical lie.
Huh, imagine that.
The evangelical opportunity that was perfectly ripe in the use of the pachamama relief carving, used by indigenous people in innocent devotion to Our Lady, expressing by means of their own culture their love for Our Lady, was shot down by white Catholics ideologically obsessed by a fascistic appropriation of western culture, and unjustly stolen and thrown into the river.
Because, according to these assholes, as they whitesplained to the indigenous people, that, no, pachamama is a demonic god who devours babies! You stupid naive uncatechised savages. Yeah, no room here for seeking the good to be baptized (in spite of long historical precedence that says otherwise) about pachamama which is generally Mother Earth. No, you can't have a rather open-ended symbol to yield up to Our Lady and bring a new aspect of understanding her - no. Pachamama is a baby-eating demon!
But the literal racist slave trader murderers who literally committed mass genocide, devouring the actual lives of real living people - yeah, their bronze representation isn't an idol or whitewashing of a lie and it most certainly should not be cast into the river, because NUANCE, it's more nuanced than that, there were many shades, and you know, it was complicated, and he was a complex person.
Right.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!
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