I did my grad work at UK, I remember flare-ups over that piece, when I was there. It doesn’t look like the arguments against leaving it alone have gotten any more persuasive than they were when I was a student there.
If an historian were going to make a principled argument against the mural, you’d have to invoke Nietzsche’s dictum about useful history requiring a measured dose of forgetting, as well as remembering, but I don’t see any of the critics making principled arguments about anything, just a lot of bandwagon-jumping.
I did my grad work at UK, I remember flare-ups over that piece, when I was there. It doesn’t look like the arguments against leaving it alone have gotten any more persuasive than they were when I was a student there.
If an historian were going to make a principled argument against the mural, you’d have to invoke Nietzsche’s dictum about useful history requiring a measured dose of forgetting, as well as remembering, but I don’t see any of the critics making principled arguments about anything, just a lot of bandwagon-jumping.
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