BrikoX@vlemmy.net to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoUruguay won’t melt huge bronze Nazi eagle into a dove, president sayswww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down10cross-posted to: world@lemmy.worldnews@beehaw.org
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minus-squareFaceDeer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoIt’s simply historically significant. If an American bought the Mona Lisa and declared that he intended to eat it I’m sure there’d be plenty of outcry even though Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t American.
minus-squareSem@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoBetter analogy is inside the publication as a quote of Aldo Lamorte, a member of parliament with the president’s conservative National Party: “The Roman Coliseum was NOT destroyed because Christians were killed there.”
It’s simply historically significant. If an American bought the Mona Lisa and declared that he intended to eat it I’m sure there’d be plenty of outcry even though Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t American.
Terrible analogy.
Better analogy is inside the publication as a quote of Aldo Lamorte, a member of parliament with the president’s conservative National Party: