Category: Politics
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Two Cheers for Iconoclasm: Why Pulling Down Monuments Gives Us More To Remember
The statue of the merchant and slave-trader Edward Colston has been pulled from its plinth in Bristol. In Oxford there are renewed calls for the image of Cecil Rhodes to come down. Across the southern United States, monuments to Confederate soldiers and politicians seem to be falling in greater numbers every day, some by order…
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When the Dead Don’t Exist, They Must Be Invented: Thoughts on the Massacre at Bowling Green
Do you remember the Bowling Green Massacre? This mysterious atrocity was introduced to the world by Presidential Counselor Kellyanne Conway in an interview on Thursday 2 February. Justifying Trump’s immigration ban, Conway reminded us that “two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green Massacre. Most people…