• @Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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    504 months ago

    It should be given back to the natives, with reparations. I wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted to remove the faces and attempt to restore it.

      • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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        4 months ago

        Hey, guess what - wanting a historical wrong to be corrected by having a polity live up to its treaty obligations, however belatedly, by ceding a piece of land on which a rather ugly monument exists on and telling the original owners ‘do what you want with it’ is not the equivalent of volunteering for ethnic cleansing.

        • @RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
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          34 months ago

          Might be a cool opportunity to build cohesion even. What if we (in consult with the Lakota whose land it annually is) build in a few cool people from other tribes too (e.g. chief Seattle, and others from all over the country). That could make it feel more like a monument to all of us.

          Generally not a fan of defacing nature though. There’s a joke in there somewhere but it’s too early.

      • @zaph@sh.itjust.works
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        464 months ago

        If that’s what it takes to make reparations happen I’ll gladly give mine. Thankfully that isn’t what reparations would require so you just look like a racist asshole.