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nekkichi

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  1. 21 hours ago, felipar said:

    I do that too lol. Sometimes I post the link on the topic if I think it's a good release to be shared :D 

    i don't post it in public bc I typically don't remember where I got the files from and/if uploader had a no repost rule tbh


  2. @Ikna

    I don't want to shame you for disagreeing, but we are not an early society by any measure, we are also capable of reflecting and judging what we want to translate in public through architecture and monuments.

     

    there're examples of how similar "problematic" historic actors and visuals were handled dating to 70 years ago - 

    https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/20/why-there-are-no-nazi-statues-in-germany-215510

     and there's also shit like this:

     

    there are places for those statues to be kept, exhibited publicly, and preserved, but the question of their presence in open air in a heating social climate that canonically prioritizes WASP dominance over anything else is open.


  3. 3 minutes ago, Ikna said:

    I feel that renaming cities and places and removing statues of people we have retrospectively deemed to be "problematic"

    beloved everyone knew they were shit people back in the day, there're no sudden post-factum epiphanies and rewriting very well documented history. they were put on that pedestal with all around complete and sober awareness of how shitty they were.

     

    political power does not ask for public approval to celebrate itself.

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