Captain Cook statue toppled in St Kilda on eve of 26 January
Captain Cook statue toppled in St Kilda on eve of 26 January
Bronze figure sawn off at the ankles, with ‘The colony will fall’ spraypainted on the plinth, in apparent protest at Australia Day date
“We support the right of people to protest and demonstrate but it must always be done in a peaceful and respectful way.”
Go stand over there so we can continue to ignore you
Protesting is allowed down in a cellar, at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.
The powerful don’t do anything in a peaceful or respectful way.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Victorian police are investigating “criminal damage” to a century-old Captain Cook statue in St Kilda in an apparent protest over the Australia Day public holiday.
Police said members of the public reported that the Captain Cook memorial near Jacka Boulevard had been vandalised about 3.30am on Thursday morning.
The plinth had been spray painted with the slogan: “The colony will fall.”
Several people were seen loitering in the area around the time, police said.
According to the Captain Cook Society, the monument to the British explorer was likely to have been the first major memorial to him in Victoria when it was unveiled in December 1914.
Its engraving commemorates the date of the Endeavour’s departure from Plymouth in 1768 on Cook’s first voyage that included charting the east coast of Australia.
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All this does is turn people against the cause. But then again, I feel like this was done to make the people who did it feel special and important.
The fallacy of any publicity is good publicity needs to be put to rest.
Turned people against how?
'Cos most of the reactions i've seen haven't been "oh my statues!! My art!!' but general ambivalent approval ranging from a running commentary of hilarity on the statue's fate to a simple 'good'.
Ain't no one getting aggro over a cook statue. Burke and wills maybe, that vandalism made no sense, but cook? Eh, fuck 'im
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Gotta erase all the history so nobody gets offended... I'm sure there won't be any "doomed to repeat" in anyone's future or anything...
Because the statue was what made us learn about and remember the terrible effect of colonialism on Aboriginal people.
Let’s go put up some statues of Hitler lest we forget about what happened during WW2.
What a dumb comment
You're not wrong,
Nobody wants to hear it though...
Colonization, slavery, even the Nazis. All of it was able to occur because people werent thinking about possible outcomes. Statues of colonizers and confederates are a tangible reminder that might help keep the understanding of possible outcomes in public consciousness, and maybe down the road that remembrance precludes a repeat.
It's specifically why Auschwitz, the site of one of the most horrific outcomes, stands intact to this day.
Personally, I think the next great incident of dehumanizing and persecution is very likely to be perpetrated by a very liberal mentality, in the name of trying to do good. You see signs of it every day. Some of the labels applied to me in other comments are indicative of it, and I said absolutely nothing In support of the shit I was labelled as. I'm a racist, I'm a colonizer, etc... said no such thing, but there wasn't any shortage of hostility and downvotes... It's a dangerous mentality.
Doomed to repeat what, you fucking racist?
Doomed to repeat colonialism? Repeating the defeat of fascism by force?
What history exactly is this erasing?
Get the fucking dogwhistle out of your mouth and maybe you’ll start making sense.