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Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by Jel » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:24 am


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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by evensteadiereddie » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:29 am

Do you disagree with the decision ?

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by Jel » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:30 am

Yes let's erase all history!

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Post by evensteadiereddie » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:33 am

Why ?
Nothing's been erased, a statue of a Nazi sympathiser has been removed while discussions take place regarding its suitability for open display.
Hardly the end of the world, is it ?

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Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:39 am

British history is vile. Travelling the world raping and pillaging. Then settling and suppressing the indigenous people. Over and above all that is the slave trade. Treating human beings as a commodity is beneath contempt.

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by Barry_Chuckle » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:40 am

It's not just British history though is it, it's history globally, but I don't see any other country trying to erase it.

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by ClaretEngineer » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:41 am

It’s sending out a message that making mistakes is wrong and no matter how much good work you do you are defined by those previous indiscretions.

Another man of his time that didn’t have the benefit of modern enlightened views.

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by Jel » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:43 am

I don't agree with some of his thoughts but soon all these "disagreeable" people will be forgotten and future generations will loose the knowledge of why such actions were wrong. Let's close Auschwitz too!

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Post by mealdeal » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:46 am

Theres a few biographies of Baden-Powell and none of them can agree completely on his views on nazism.

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Post by Jel » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:50 am

The Romans weren't exactly squeaky clean, there's enough monuments there to have a field day. While thinking of Italy, the Vatican has a slightly checkered past (and present) too.

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by Tribesmen » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:55 am

This is now getting out of hand really .

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by Jel » Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:58 am

Tribesmen wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:55 am
This is now getting out of hand really .
The thread or the social cleansing?

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by martin_p » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:02 am

Barry_Chuckle wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:40 am
It's not just British history though is it, it's history globally, but I don't see any other country trying to erase it.
You need to widen your horizons then, it’s going on all over the world at the moment.
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Post by Tribesmen » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:02 am

Social Cleaning .

Goodness we have had people now protest here in Galway about Christopher Clombus who set sail from the port how many years ago . What the feck is going on in the world
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Post by evensteadiereddie » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:05 am

Christopher who ?

:lol:

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Post by evensteadiereddie » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:09 am

Genius !

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Post by dsr » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:15 am

Surely it's time to accept that anyone who has ever held any incorrect views on racism, sexism, homosexuality, or votes for women, should be regarded as the evil people that they were and deemed unfit to share this world with the enlightened ones. Remove all statues, remove all place names and other memorials of the dead, because none of these historic people are worthy to stand beside the wonderful, enlightened, and above all superior people of today.
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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by martin_p » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:18 am

Thing is, all this story is is a council removing a statue until things have died down a bit.

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by AfloatinClaret » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:21 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:05 am
Christopher who ?
Probably the Italian chap Columbus, though I can't see why the US citizens should have got a downer on him; despite being feted for ''discovering' it, he never went there, nor even knew of its existence.

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by Zlatan » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:22 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:05 am
Christopher who ?

:lol:
it's his accent ;)

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Post by NottsClaret » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:25 am

I'm either supportive / ambivalent about the statue toppling so far. My only concern is we reach a stage where we're scratching around for things to topple and we just go after anyone who had views different to ours.

For example, I've seen plenty of stuff online about a statue of Thatcher being a target. I didn't like her, disliked her policies and thought she did huge damage to the country, especially the North. But if we start going after things like that, I think we're in the wrong.

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Post by NottsClaret » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:25 am

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by Blackrod » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:26 am

There’s a statue of Edward 8th at Uni of Aberystwyth let’s have that down as his views towards Nazis were suspect. Let’s rip up the A1 as it was originally put there by Romans who were racist and used slave labour........let’s ban German imports of cars VW used slave Labour from concentration camps .... where does it end

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Post by Leisure » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:38 am

Get them pyramids down!
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Post by CnBtruntru » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:38 am

dsr wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:15 am
Surely it's time to accept that anyone who has ever held any incorrect views on racism, sexism, homosexuality, or votes for women, should be regarded as the evil people that they were and deemed unfit to share this world with the enlightened ones. Remove all statues, remove all place names and other memorials of the dead, because none of these historic people are worthy to stand beside the wonderful, enlightened, and above all superior people of today.
I take there is a bit of Sarcasm in your post :D

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Post by CnBtruntru » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:39 am

Leisure wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:38 am
Get them pyramids down!
I said that to the wife yesterday :)

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Post by dsr » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:49 am

CnBtruntru wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:38 am
I take there is a bit of Sarcasm in your post :D
No!!! ;) :D

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Post by Hipper » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:56 am

huw.Y.WattfromWare wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 8:39 am
British history is vile. Travelling the world raping and pillaging. Then settling and suppressing the indigenous people. Over and above all that is the slave trade. Treating human beings as a commodity is beneath contempt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AmUV2wGIY

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Post by gtclaret » Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:56 am

Blackrod wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:26 am
There’s a statue of Edward 8th at Uni of Aberystwyth let’s have that down as his views towards Nazis were suspect. Let’s rip up the A1 as it was originally put there by Romans who were racist and used slave labour........let’s ban German imports of cars VW used slave Labour from concentration camps .... where does it end
You forgot all Disney films as uncle Walt wasn't the nicest of people, all of British Industry that existed in the early years of the last century which was build on slave labour of British people

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by summitclaret » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:06 am

They won't stop now until there is a statue of Scargill in place of Maggie.

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Post by Cirrus_Minor » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:18 am

Some of these statues are long overdue to be taken down. Let’s by all means keep them in museums with clear historical account of their achievements. But surely we know enough now to stop the public commendation of people who were involved in the slave trade, murderers and Nazi sympathisers.

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Post by chipbutty » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:25 am

The Colosseum in Rome was built by at least 60000 Jewish slaves. Get the bulldozers in!

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Post by tim_noone » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:33 am

Well I'll Dib Dib Dib.

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Post by spadesclaret » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:37 am

Considering the hatred of Liverpool, shown by many on this board, I'm surprised no-one has suggested razing the city, the one-time capital of slave trading in the UK.
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Post by MACCA » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:40 am

I heard Taj Mahal is next....

Andre Gray is also having to return his golden boot from the 2015/16 season.

When will this end 😭

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Post by mdd2 » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:42 am

In the present climate it would be difficult to put up a statue to JC.I note Mandela's statue seems safe as well as Ghandi's but neither were whiter than white were they? :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Post by Funkydrummer » Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:56 am

What about his brother, Baden Breakfast ?

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Post by Jel » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:00 am

mdd2 wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:42 am
In the present climate it would be difficult to put up a statue to JC.I note Mandela's statue seems safe as well as Ghandi's but neither were whiter than white were they? :lol: :lol: :lol:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/ ... tue-racism

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Post by dsr » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:01 am

What about employers of children? Titus Salt, Joseph Rowntree, Lord Leverhulme - they all employed children in their factories. Evil men?

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Post by Funkydrummer » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:09 am

Will we have to rename such things as "slave cylinders" or "slave unit" ?

It's beginning to look that way.

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Post by Blackrod » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:13 am

I know of some old mills that employed children and had awful safety records by modern health and safety standards so let’s pull them all down. They are a symbolism of something that doesn’t reflect modern attitudes. They might upset some wokes or millennials.

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Post by Dyched » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:15 am

I’m gonna sit and wait for the toppling of the American flag on the moon. Nasa openly hired a Nazi after all, who’s were produced by slave labour.

Or maybe just pull down the moon.
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Post by ElectroClaret » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:18 am

This story seems to be changing by the minute.

The deputy leader of Bournemouth and Poole council now says its NOT coming down. (Sky news)
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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by Tribesmen » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:18 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:05 am
Christopher who ?

:lol:
Ahhh yes he changed his name when he set off to the New World :D
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Post by martin_p » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:25 am

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/ ... ved-today/

So a lot of fuss over nothing then.

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Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:52 am

spadesclaret wrote:
Thu Jun 11, 2020 10:37 am
Considering the hatred of Liverpool, shown by many on this board, I'm surprised no-one has suggested razing the city, the one-time capital of slave trading in the UK.
The deep rooted hatred between Manchester and Liverpool is definitely racist.

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Re: Baden Powell to be ging gang goolied

Post by Bigbopper » Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:58 am

Liverpool FC have all taken a knee for Floyd so that means they are ok. Hang on though did they not back Suarez not that long ago. Hypocrisy

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