Bad decision for this statue?

"i really do think it is going to promote hate In the town and make things intensive with the WLM and ALM folks...can see a certain group of people putting this one in the water too tonight."

I understand your point, but i don't think the opinions of the people you mention should be pandered to. It's a a great photograph and i like the statue. Would be nice if it stayed in place but yes, it will probably get pulled down
 
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"I understand your point, but i don't think the opinions of the people you mention should be pandered to"
strange statement
 
You're never going to win over the racists or contrarians and they are always going to be spewing their bile and clutching their pearls whenever there is a chance of progress for minorities, but this is likely going to rub a lot of people who would be willing to support full scale change in attitudes up the wrong way and I think it loses a bit of the moral high ground. I bet the Police in Bristol are tearing their hair out.

This statue is going to be like a big cream cake at a picnic, with all the racist ants and 'Football Alliance Lads' swarming towards it. I think it will be in the harbour by the end of Saturday night. Eng-ger-land, Eng-ger-land.

A shame because the statue itself is really striking.
 
I don't really agree with people outside of governance unilaterally putting up a statue without discussing it or giving people the opportunity to argue against it.

I'm also not a huge fan of a person helping to arrange a statue of themself to be put up.

But it is an impressive looking statue.
 
It is definitely antagonistic and this act is and act of truimphalism.

We are being told by the media that the "far right" is on the rise - well you can bet your bottom dollar that they will be now.
 
Not a chance it will stay. It will just be a magnet for trouble. Put it in a museum along side the other one telling the story how things happened.
 
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This has been out there as a test in my opinion, if All Lives Matter then surely all statues matter too and if you were willing to protect statues under threat from BLM then surely to be honest in your claims of equality you should be willing to protect this statue too ?

It has been erected to provoke, undoubtedly, and I’m not sure that celebrating the progress of the BLM movement with commemoration of an act of mob rule vandalism with this image is the best course of action, it will be interesting to see what follows.

Bristol, home of Banksy has long been a bastion of free, street and protest art, I see this falling into that category.
 
I thought it was really good and the creator says it is just temporary until a decision is made on what should go there
 
Here is a very novel idea.... Why don't they not bother with a replacement... then no one will be able to get morally outraged whatever their beliefs
 
Prsonally not bothered about what, if anything replaces it.
I do like the idea of the sculptor tho - ‘temporary to keep the debate going’

It will prob get trashed but, whether it is there or not there are still racists.
Putting the sculpture up won’t make someone else a racist.
 
I know this is ignoring the bigger BLM v the issues with trying to rewrite history but does anyone else feel uneasy that someone should be involved in getting a statue of themselves put up? It just seems wrong and demeans why we use statuary in the first place
 
1finny said:
‘demeans the use of statues’
In what way?
They are like peerages, have sprung up like confetti largely as a result of nepotism
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In that they should be used as a tribute to important historical figures, or figures involved in important historical events. Tributing yourself seems very wrong to me.
 
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