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OrangeJuiceAlibi t1_j959djc wrote

I'm honestly surprised it happened that early.

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epochpenors t1_j95uugg wrote

Same! When I saw the year I assumed they were removed for painting our settlers in a negative light, I was surprised to see the 1939 declaration about how badly we fucked over and stole from the natives too.

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mojomonkeyfish t1_j96jd0r wrote

When people say "that's just how it was back then" it's kinda bullshit. It was, then, like it is now: fascists forced racist iconography and ideology onto our culture in order to secure their social standing. People thought it was bullshit to put up a lot of statues. But, it takes ten times the effort to get something taken down as it does to put it up.

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