The council don’t own the square or the monument, last time Police Scotland were unable to find crimality with the removal.
Expect the same group to have it removed again.
The whole thing is a complete waste of time ad resources.
In the height of the BLM ‘wave’ there were a lot of folk wanting statues removed/streets renamed etc.
I personally think that plaques such as this are the best compromise. We can’t just rename everything and forget our history, regardless of how awful it is. The best thing is to make sure that people have all the information so that we can learn and hopefully move on.
I really feel like more energy should be spent on establishing the truth of the matter regarding his supposed gradualist approach to abolition.
It matters greatly whether his actions lead to speedier abolition through broader consensus, or slower due to the delays.
I find it hard to believe someone who was sure they were doing God’s work campaigning for abolition would associate socially with someone truly hindering that effort.
But then maybe I am guilty of judging actions from more than two centuries ago with a simplistic, modern day take.
Personally I think the best course of action is to replace these statues with those who represent our modern societal and cultural values and place the old ones in a museum where pure facts about the individual are displayed such as any ‘good’ they may have done but also including the horrors too.
Haul the fecker doon!
Have a Bruce or Wallace statue instead. Rename Dundas Street as well.
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The council don’t own the square or the monument, last time Police Scotland were unable to find crimality with the removal.
Expect the same group to have it removed again.
The whole thing is a complete waste of time ad resources.
In the height of the BLM ‘wave’ there were a lot of folk wanting statues removed/streets renamed etc.
I personally think that plaques such as this are the best compromise. We can’t just rename everything and forget our history, regardless of how awful it is. The best thing is to make sure that people have all the information so that we can learn and hopefully move on.
I really feel like more energy should be spent on establishing the truth of the matter regarding his supposed gradualist approach to abolition.
It matters greatly whether his actions lead to speedier abolition through broader consensus, or slower due to the delays.
He’s no [John Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)), for sure, but what’s striking for me is the close friendship that existed between [Dundas and William Wilberforce, ](https://hdcommittee.medium.com/the-close-encounters-of-henry-dundas-and-william-wilberforce-814e73cf978a) contemporaneously with the disagreement over how best to effect abolition.
I find it hard to believe someone who was sure they were doing God’s work campaigning for abolition would associate socially with someone truly hindering that effort.
But then maybe I am guilty of judging actions from more than two centuries ago with a simplistic, modern day take.
Personally I think the best course of action is to replace these statues with those who represent our modern societal and cultural values and place the old ones in a museum where pure facts about the individual are displayed such as any ‘good’ they may have done but also including the horrors too.
Haul the fecker doon!
Have a Bruce or Wallace statue instead. Rename Dundas Street as well.
“New” it’s been there for months.