More Virtuous Iconoclasm from the Regressive Left, What statue is problematic now?

[Husky_Khan]

Wolf in sheep's clothing: Councilman wanted Eden Park statue to be relocated

The removal of controversial statues, plaques and other "memorials" from within a community have always been a hot-button topic and received mix reactions from community members. But that didn't stop one city councilman from wanting to remove a statue from Eden Park.

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A Cincinnati Councilman named Chris Seelbach wants/wanted to remove this problematic statue from Eden Park in their city... why you may ask? Is it lewd? Is it *gasp* Pagan? Oh no...

The statue is named the Capitoline Wolf Statue, a bronze statue depicting the wolf nursing the mythologized founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, when they were children. The statue is a replica of the Capitoline Wolf found in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.

The statue was gifted to Cincinnati by Mussolini before the US got involved in World War II.

The reason Cincinnati received a statue is because we are named after Roman dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.

Thankfully there were some developments.



It looks like he restrained himself a bit, but this wasn't the first time the statue was targeted for removal for stupid reasons by Leftists and obviously it's only one of many things that (largely Leftist) cultural vandals wish to destroy or "relocated to museums" so they can be stuffed in a box in a basement or scrapyard somewhere so that some busy body activists and local politicians can fellate each other over how studious and brave they are by engaging in empty headed anti-historical iconoclasm.

 

[Deleted member]

Mussolini didn't really do anything worse than our genocides of the Native Americans, and we still have monuments up in the middle of Rhode Island's Great Swamp celebrating the massacre of indigenous villages. Seems very much to just be a matter of progressive virtue signaling, and worse, over a statue which, whomever had it commissioned, simply tells a legend of our common and shared western history.

 

[StormEagle]

Mussolini didn't really do anything worse than our genocides of the Native Americans, and we still have monuments up in the middle of Rhode Island's Great Swamp celebrating the massacre of indigenous villages. Seems very much to just be a matter of progressive virtue signaling, and worse, over a statue which, whomever had it commissioned, simply tells a legend of our common and shared western history.

Mussolini may not have been that bad as far as murderous dictators go, but he gets tarred by his association with the mad Austrian in a way that, say, Franco is not.

If Mussolini had stayed out of the war like the Spanish dictator mostly did, besides a few volunteers sent to fight the Bolsheviks, he’d have largely been unremarkable.

Mussolini’s problem was that he was overly ambitious and had an overly inflated opinion about his nations military capability.

 

[Scottty]

Seems very much to just be a matter of progressive virtue signaling, and worse, over a statue which, whomever had it commissioned, simply tells a legend of our common and shared western history.

They haven't yet gotten to the point where they openly declare all celebration of western history to be racist?

Where do Italians fit in on their privilege/oppression scale nowadays? How soon will they start demanding that Cincinnati be renamed to something more politically correct?
Commemorating a European dictator, after all...

 

[DarthOne]

They haven't yet gotten to the point where they openly declare all celebration of western history to be racist?

Where do Italians fit in on their privilege/oppression scale nowadays? How soon will they start demanding that Cincinnati be renamed to something more politically correct?
Commemorating a European dictator, after all...

They aren’t African, South American or Arabic so I’d imagine they’re seen as ‘White’ and therefore evil like everyone else by the Social Justice Warriors.

 

[Lanmandragon]

Mussolini didn't really do anything worse than our genocides of the Native Americans, and we still have monuments up in the middle of Rhode Island's Great Swamp celebrating the massacre of indigenous villages. Seems very much to just be a matter of progressive virtue signaling, and worse, over a statue which, whomever had it commissioned, simply tells a legend of our common and shared western history.

It sure does which is why they're going after it. The Mussolini thing is just cover.

 

[Doomsought]

If Mussolini had stayed out of the war like the Spanish dictator mostly did, besides a few volunteers sent to fight the Bolsheviks, he’d have largely been unremarkable.

Blame the UK for that. The only reason that Mussulini threw in with the mad Austrian was because the British diplomatic core gave Italy the cold shoulder after they took over African territories they were promised during the settlement of World war I- which Mussulini only took over after he asked everyone, including the United Kingdom, if they would have a problem with him taking it over.

Ifr that bit of two faced hipocracy didn't happen, Mussulini would probably be remembered as a Hero of world war two for accepting Jewish refugees- he was the only national leader to do that, the others who accepted Jewish refugees were all lower level diplomatic functionaries. Unfortunately he flipped on that policy in order to appease Adolf.

Mussolini was not a man of principles, in fact his philosophy rejected the very idea of having principles, but if he were allowed to gain power by pretending to be a good man he would have done less evil.

 

[LordsFire]

Blame the UK for that. The only reason that Mussulini threw in with the mad Austrian was because the British diplomatic core gave Italy the cold shoulder after they took over African territories they were promised during the settlement of World war I- which Mussulini only took over after he asked everyone, including the United Kingdom, if they would have a problem with him taking it over.

Ifr that bit of two faced hipocracy didn't happen, Mussulini would probably be remembered as a Hero of world war two for accepting Jewish refugees- he was the only national leader to do that, the others who accepted Jewish refugees were all lower level diplomatic functionaries. Unfortunately he flipped on that policy in order to appease Adolf.

Mussolini was not a man of principles, in fact his philosophy rejected the very idea of having principles, but if he were allowed to gain power by pretending to be a good man he would have done less evil.

Interesting perspective; I've no idea if it's accurate or not. Mussolini certainly was nowhere near the monster Adolf was though.