Bristol Black Lives Matter protesters toppled a statue of a slave trader – 14 smashing reactions

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Today idiots are more upset about statues of slave traders being pulled down than actual inequality. I hope they at least have conviction and spend every second of the rest of their time campaigning against pigeons.

— Tiernan Douieb (@TiernanDouieb) June 7, 2020

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You can't even trade 80,000 enslaved people for vast personal profit without getting cancelled these days

— Nadia Kamil (@NadiaKamil) June 7, 2020

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If you’re one of the people who thinks throwing a statue of Edward Colston into the sea is bad, wait until you find out about the 19,000 slaves who died whilst his company transported them to the Caribbean. pic.twitter.com/xahaC16G7E

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) June 7, 2020

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Tearing down statues of slavers? What’s next? Honouring good people? Human rights?

— Gavin Logan (@tamewhale) June 7, 2020

The slave trader’s Wikipedia entry suffered a few alterations.

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THE NOISE I JUST MADE pic.twitter.com/cVRbaAVW8d

— Rebecca Buxton (@RebeccaBuxton) June 7, 2020

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I *think* one sentence in Edward Colston's wikipedia entry may be untrue. pic.twitter.com/CG0NHX4vaj

— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) June 7, 2020

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Just a quick screenshot about the Edward Colston statue for posterity, before Wikipedia edits … pic.twitter.com/ZWCcM5EKge

— Stephen McKay (@SocialPolicy) June 7, 2020

Nish Kumar pointed out something more pertinent than whether the crowds should have destroyed the statue.

I guess the question we should probably be asking is "why was there a statue of a slave trader there in the first place"

— Nish Kumar (@MrNishKumar) June 7, 2020

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