[The Critic] Righteous Spaniard

We should celebrate achievements, not just condemn vice

What would happen if, out of a change of heart, the statue-toppling rage ignited by the Great Awokening of 2020 suddenly went into reverse, giving way to a spree of statue-raising? What would the West’s cities look like if, instead of desecrating monuments to figures that failed the woke mob’s test, we erected new ones to honour other ambivalent legacies? If the aim were to signal that the unambiguously good deeds of these as-of-yet unsung heroes stand, and should be celebrated, despite their role in regimes and empires we now deem reprehensible, how would the statue-topplers receive the message?

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