Submitted by Paul Daley on
Unless history strives for truth it is nothing more than propaganda. There is nothing intrinsically educational about a statue, memorial or place name
Amid all the reactionary harrumphing and puerile criticism that those who question memorialising men who slaughtered Indigenous people are being somehow Stalinist or, even more ludicrously, Taliban-like, we really ought to think about truth and history.
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