02-15-2016, 12:34 PM
(02-15-2016, 11:47 AM)MidTowner Wrote: The City doesn't have to accept a donation like that, does it? I mean, it's offensive!
I'm a card carrying SJW and self-proclaimed feminist, but I remember telling my fellow SJW way back in the early 2000s that this highly subjective "is offensive!" wouldn't lead us to any place we would like to be, and that it behooved us to articulate a better rationale than that to banish something.
Recently there was a debate to take down a Rhodes statue in Oxford. Again, I'd rather have a plaque explaining what the dude did warts and all. In his particular case given his spotty record this would be far more severe punishment than just removing the statue.
Anyway, going back to the subject at hand part of the problem with the statue proposal is that it has no connection to town. I imagine something would have been worked out rather quickly had this proposal came up in Kingston or Ottawa.