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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: The Confucian Course
Description: In the recent past, we have seen a couple of more statues removed. First Thomas Jefferson was hauled out of the New York Capitol. Back in 2020, in Charleston (SC), a figure of John C. Calhoun, like Jefferson, a former Vice President of the United States was taken away. Then Jackie Robinson was stolen from a ball park in Kansas – albeit probably not for the same reasons.
Now, the reason that we are given for this is, of course, that they were white, patriarchal, cisgendered, slave owning racists. Which, was true. Although in fairness they would have no idea...