What is it about our hivemind that remembers what we would like of our terrorists/heroes(label dependent on which side of the bomb blast you happened to be)?
So Rhodes was an ass. Fine. So was Ghandi, Mandela and I'm pretty sure a great deal of other deified and/or demonised figures in history.
These people did great things and they did shitty things - so how come we only remember the good deeds of some and the bad deeds of others?
When the fashion of politics change again - as it inevitably does over time - will some feminist militants deface and destroy Ghandi statues, or humanist Wimpy fanatics storm Nelson Mandela square?
We live in a world where facts and fiction get blurred
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