A useful guide is - what are you most famous for?

Churchill? Being PM during WW2.

Colston? Being a slave trader.

It’s not a bad guide to whether you should have a statue or not.

Posted By: jampersands on June 7th 2020 at 20:36:16

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Bristol today (General Chat) - Captain Bligh, Jun 7, 17:33:08
- Hi. Can I ask if you are black? (General Chat) - Nelsons final flanel, Jun 7, 21:07:23
  - No (General Chat) - Captain Bligh, Jun 7, 22:24:47
    - I mean no, (General Chat) - Captain Bligh, Jun 7, 22:49:45
- A slave trader? Fuck him and his statue (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jun 7, 20:52:54
  - I don't disagree (General Chat) - Captain Bligh, Jun 7, 22:38:04
- Who’s next? Churchill? (n/m) (General Chat) - Surrey Yella, Jun 7, 19:53:22
  - A useful guide is - what are you most famous for? (General Chat) - jampersands, Jun 7, 20:36:16
  - Plenty to dislike about Churchill tbf (n/m) (General Chat) - Agatha Fisty, Jun 7, 20:32:25
  - Not very popular with Indians including British Indians. (General Chat) - DH Yellow, Jun 7, 20:21:56
    - Our country should be ashamed of how it made it’s wealth. Appalling (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jun 7, 20:53:55
  - probably he was a (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Jun 7, 20:03:01
- seemed pretty reasonable to me (General Chat) - matt in london, Jun 7, 19:46:57
  - Was quite an emotional moment that (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 7, 19:50:19
- Fuck all them racist old statues up, get rid, get them upstream pronto. (n/m) (General Chat) - MIKEWALKER, Jun 7, 18:45:13
  - Put some fecking clothes on.... (General Chat) - yellowman, Jun 7, 19:25:25
- Do you know what? I am anti violence, anti vandalism, not comfortable with the increased (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jun 7, 18:10:02
  - Best statue in Thetford (General Chat) - Winged Eel Creosote, Jun 7, 18:23:06
    - HaHa brilliant, must admit I used to love the Giles one of Grandma in Ipswich (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jun 7, 18:33:32
      - Giles was a brilliant cartoonist (n/m) (General Chat) - JoeyDeacon, Jun 7, 19:56:55
        
        He provided me with the same present to get my dad every Christmas, easy (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jun 7, 22:02:20
  - Agreed. Most people had never heard of the bloke (General Chat) - jamesward, Jun 7, 18:21:47
    - Sky news interviewed a black lad (General Chat) - Pukki Pies, Jun 7, 19:53:24
      - Done its job then, educated people (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Jun 7, 21:02:02
      - Super stuff (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 7, 19:57:34
- Except that most people never heard of him until today - how's that for (General Chat) - StraightOuttaBacton, Jun 7, 18:09:27
- trollololol (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 7, 17:54:12
  - Why troll? (General Chat) - Captain Bligh, Jun 7, 19:21:24
    - I didn't say anything like that (General Chat) - Captain Bligh, Jun 7, 23:25:38
    - “I love slave traders” something along those lines? (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jun 7, 20:57:26
- He was a man of his time (General Chat) - JoeyDeacon, Jun 7, 17:39:31
  - Can see why you don’t think there’s a racist issue in the UK 🇬🇧 now. Only 🇺🇸 😂 (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jun 7, 20:54:41
  - There’s a big difference between acknowledging history and celebrating jt (General Chat) - SimonOTBC, Jun 7, 20:22:16
  - Man of his time maybe, but in should we have a statue of him in 2020. (n/m) (General Chat) - DH Yellow, Jun 7, 20:17:41
    - Should never have gone up at the end of the 19th century (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 7, 20:23:13
  - Most of them idiots didn't and wouldn't of even known who he was last week (General Chat) - Pukki Pies, Jun 7, 18:38:02
    - That’s simply not true (General Chat) - Sellbydave, Jun 8, 09:50:33
    - That’s probably why it was still up last week (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 7, 19:09:41
    - He swims with the fishes now (n/m) (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jun 7, 18:39:29
      - What's next, Churchill, Nelson, statue of liberty the pyramids were built by slaves (n/m) (General Chat) - Pukki Pies, Jun 7, 19:10:36
        
        😂 (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 7, 19:19:25
        
        These fools realise the slave trade is still a thing and Africans are dying in the med (General Chat) - Pukki Pies, Jun 7, 19:34:05
        
        Lol (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 7, 19:52:05
        
        Lefty always resort to violence and fighting. Standard tactic (n/m) (General Chat) - Pukki Pies, Jun 7, 19:54:46
        
        Haha, so thick (n/m) (General Chat) - jamesward, Jun 7, 21:03:27
        
        Were slave owners lefties? They use to be very violent toward their black HUMAN slaves (n/m) (General Chat) - essexcanaryOTBC, Jun 7, 20:55:38
        
        Interesting take, that... (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Jun 7, 20:21:40
        
        I see (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 7, 19:58:42
  - That Hitler bloke, man of his time, built great roads. Wouldn't want a statue of him in (General Chat) - Augustus Pablo, Jun 7, 18:29:02
    - what about that goodwin bloke (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Jun 7, 20:10:26
    - No agree on that one (n/m) (General Chat) - JoeyDeacon, Jun 7, 19:04:33

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