Twitter Users Share 29 Statues That Are Better Than The Ones Protesters Are Tearing Down

That jerk she was bashing on the head was later convicted for the torture and murder of a gay Jewish person.

That's the thing, isn't it? Many people that we see as 'heroes' only do those things because I'm the moment they feel they've nothing to lose but end up conflicted depending on the aftermath. We recently watched Lethal Weapon again, and other than the obvious racial and police issues one of the biggest takeaways is that people who are considered heroes are often only in that position because they've lost their drive for self preservation. Driven by rage, sadness, despair, a longing for acceptance... it can be just as common as those who are driven by morality and ethics, if not more so. It doesn't mean that what they did is wrong, it just generally means that had they not been in a precarious place mentally they wouldn't have taken the risk.

She was hanged one day after giving birth. Poor brave woman.

They hung her the day after she gave birth

I wish it was true, but the world is protesting right now exactly because human beings do NOT have equal rights and freedoms.

A peace researcher once said, when she was asked if she didn't despair with the state of the world, that her belief in the good of man remained intact - because we are more than capable of annihilating each other but we have chosen not to.

So well said!!!

I've seen that clip. It's always so touching and beautiful the way they all admiringly look at him afterwards.

They weren't descendants, they were the kids he saved. It was an 80s show or 70s show

The program you are thinking of was an episode of 60 minutes a few years back.

I saw that. It was beautiful. It was the actual children he'd saved, all grown up.

Every time I see that clip, I cry my eyes out. It's wonderful.

My late brother rented a room at his home some years ago, met him, a very gentle man in every sense. Honoured to have met him.

1988, That's Life on BBC. They read through the story, showed the scrapbook his wife found in the attic with all the children's names in it. Then Esther Rantzen picked a name out and said that they'd found this woman, now grown, and she was actually sitting right next to him. Very touching moment. Then there were a couple of others. At a later date they did another programme on him as more children had been found following the first. That's when she asked if anyone else in the audience "owed their lives" to him - and damn near the whole bloody audience stood up! Not just the kids themselves, but children and grandchildren. There wasn't a dry eye in the whole street (it was standard family viewing back in the days when we didn't have zillion channels to choose from). Sir Nicholas Winton lived to 106.

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Thank you for the link! I watched it and it's beautiful and touching

It is Grenada. I've been diving there and saw these statues.

Thank you! I was just thinking that. How does a landlocked state have access to the ocean.

If that's the conclusion you draw from reading something about the Irish holocaust you suggest you study further, i recommend Or even https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/what-would-attenborough-say-about-irish-genocide/ or maybe https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-famine-genocide-british or even http://www.irishhistorylinks.net/History_Links/IrishFamineGenocide.html#:~:text=The%20British%20policy%20of%20mass,the%20English%20created%20the%20Famine. If you have not read Coogans book, you know nothing about the Irish "famine".

Take a little step back too. To fully research history. As with all things, research and education should probably be 90%; opinion, 10%. There are several, but this article is quickly and easily read, and atop the 'what cause the Irish famine' google search :) "In fact, the most glaring cause of the famine was not a plant disease, but England's long-running political hegemony over Ireland. The English conquered Ireland, several times, and took ownership of vast agricultural territory. Large chunks of land were given to Englishmen. These landowners in turn hired farmers to manage their holdings. The managers then rented small plots to the local population in return for labor and cash crops. Competition for land resulted in high rents and smaller plots, thereby squeezing the Irish to subsistence and providing a large financial drain on the economy." https://mises.org/library/what-caused-irish-potato-famine

The famine was a genocide of the Irish people by the British...more than enough food was produced in Ireland it feed everyone but it had to be paid to the British land owners otherwise they'd risk losing their home and small plot of land they farmed for their own food... ...that's why the potato disease was so devastating... potatoes have a high calorie to acreage ratio so they were the foundation of Irish diets. ...Ireland exported butter, wheat, meat, etc during the Famine ...because rich British aristocrats didn't care about anything but their pockets. What many don't realize is that the Republic of Ireland has only been a free and independent nation for 100 years.

It took a while until I learned that the brick 'famine walls' throughout Ireland were build as a form of 'pay' for the food send by England. Such a weird concept. Having already starving people perform hard manual labour - which benefited absolutely nobody. The walls seem to be a monument in itself for the famine. A big difference with the EU and the immigrants is, in my opinion, that Ireland was ruled by England at the time. It was part of the British empire and the already starving people were still expected to pay London high taxes. The Irish were basically colonised and enslaved by the Brits. I see no such link between the EU and the north African refugees. Also, the concern about the number of refugees coming to the EU was never in any way directed at Syrian war refugees, but at economical refugees coming from safe countries such as Algeria of Marocco. Also a difference with the famine, where millions died (not saying I agree with the concern and disinterest in any way though!)

i saw a story recently linked to this. a native american tribe sent ireland cash to help, and this year during covid the irish people repaid them. we need more of this. remember it was muslims that also supported ireland during this time, and pissed of the uk gov cos they sent much much more than the queen did.

Really, this is your conclusion? The EU is evil? Wow. Well, it's not like any non-EU member countries extended a welcome to the refugee boat people you are referring to.

It appears even before a news cycle, that's about how long interests last by those unaffected

The point is Ireland WAS Britain back then...

I'd love to see you state these "facts" to a group of Irishmen in a Dublin pub....

Yes Indeed Jon S., I very much agree.

Wow. No kidding. And something that should maybe be more well-known is that: throughout history, and across cultures, many, if not most, of the statues that were created - no matter the size or material - were meant to be adorned, pained, decorated, etc.