интересное кино, оказывается в Штатах начали спиливать памятники конфедератам относящиеся к гражданской войне 1860-х. Причем спиливают ночью, рабочие в касках похожих на военные, говорят даже в бронежилетах и с большим полицейским сопровождением
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 100834730/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/24/us/n ... .html?_r=0
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/24/ne ... ments.html
казалось бы зачем такие меры предосторожности если решение принято в соотв с положенной процедурой. Да и потом, сами события были больше 150 лет назад, памятники простояли примерно столько же и никому не мешали все годы пока шла борьба против расизма, за равенство итд итп. Сейчас все тихо но памятники конфедератам вдруг начали сносить
кое-какие ответы я нашел тут
https://thefederalist.com/2017/04/25/ne ... monuments/
In the early morning hours of Monday, masked men in black bulletproof vests gathered at the Battle of Liberty Place in downtown New Orleans. They arrived in flatbed trucks, the name of the company on the trucks’ sides concealed by tape and cardboard. Snipers took up positions on nearby rooftops.
This wasn’t the scene of a bank heist or a mob hit. The snipers were New Orleans police, and the workers were under contract with the city. They were there to tear down a 126-year-old monument linked to the Confederacy. New Orleans is the latest city to embark on the removal of its Confederate monuments, a rising trend among progressive municipal leaders and activists who claim to be acting in the name of tolerance but whose true purpose is political.
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Tearing Down Statues Is Always About Politics And Power
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Progressives claim a special prerogative to purge our public spaces of disfavored symbols and monuments, whether of the Confederacy or other historical figures whose views are now offensive by contemporary standards. It’s not enough, they say, to add plaques that give greater historical context or add Unionist monuments alongside Confederate ones. That should tell you something.
The drive to erase the Confederacy from our public squares isn’t really about unity or tolerance. It’s about power and politics. Censoring historical symbols is after all the cousin of censoring speech and inquiry. Hence the spectacle of Mayor Landrieu explaining how the Confederacy was “on the wrong side of history,” even as he rips up historical monuments in the name of progress.
At a time when the divisions in our country are deepening, and Americans are sorting themselves into increasingly hostile factions, we could do worse than to gaze on Confederate statues, contemplate their reasons for fighting, and consider what it took to put the country back together.