Revolutions are iconoclastic. We could remember this these days when vandals attacked, in London, the statue of Churchill, described as racist by taggers. In Great Britain, we always think of withdrawing that of Baden Powell. The mayor of London undertakes to revisit the city's statuary so that it now celebrates diversity. In the United States, two statues of Christopher Columbus were taken down. The epic of great discoveries associated with European expansion becomes shameful. In France, the decolonial left lists the statues to be brought down. Apparently, some of the immigrant populations find the symbolic environment of the country where they have settled unlivable.
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The iconoclasm is coupled with a call for the ethical cleansing of works suspected of contradicting the diversity revolution. The author of the series Friends, a famous American sitcom, apologizes crying twenty-five years later because his series, too white, does not match
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