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T_i_B

(14,805 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 11:27 AM Jun 2020

Robert the Bruce statue at Bannockburn defaced by 'BLM' graffiti

Could somebody please explain how Robert the Bruce is racist?

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18513715.robert-bruce-statue-bannockburn-defaced-blm-graffiti/

THE Battle of Bannockburn site has been vandalised overnight with graffiti calling Robert the Bruce a “racist king” and calling for his statue to be removed. Images on social media appeared to show markings on the wall at the visitor centre and the statue.

National Trust for Scotland bosses, who operate the centre, said they were “disappointed” by the act. The general manager for Edinburgh and East, Stuart Maxwell, said: “We are very disappointed by the vandalism of the iconic Bruce statue at Bannockburn and the A listed rotunda.

It comes after campaigners Topple the Racists identified more than a dozen statues in Scotland with links to slavery and colonialism which they say should be removed. However, the Bannockburn site was not identified on that interactive map.

The removal of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol at the weekend has sparked a conversation about what the UK’s public statues represent.




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Robert the Bruce statue at Bannockburn defaced by 'BLM' graffiti (Original Post) T_i_B Jun 2020 OP
Speculation on my part: The statue was graffitied NewDayOranges Jun 2020 #1
That's what I think as well. nt OAITW r.2.0 Jun 2020 #2
There is speculation from Cybernats that it's hardcore Unionists T_i_B Jun 2020 #3
Well, he was a rival to John "the Black Comyn" muriel_volestrangler Jun 2020 #4
Edward I was a bigger rival to Robert the Bruce T_i_B Jun 2020 #5
Would somebody destroy the Cunningham's please? Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #6
They made an arrest. Marcuse Jun 2020 #7
Good grief Soph0571 Jun 2020 #8

NewDayOranges

(731 posts)
1. Speculation on my part: The statue was graffitied
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 11:34 AM
Jun 2020

By racists to make BLM and Antifa look bad...

T_i_B

(14,805 posts)
3. There is speculation from Cybernats that it's hardcore Unionists
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 11:46 AM
Jun 2020

Although there appears to be no evidence of who did it one way or another.

The situation is not helped by some of the choices of statues targeted by anti racist protestors being rather odd. For every example of something that does need to go such as the Green Man and Black's Head pub sign in Ashbourne, Derbyshire you get some really daft targets such as statues of Earl Grey (the Prime Minister who abolished slavery in the colonies) and W.E. Gladstone.

And on the other hand the far right have gone from posing by war memorials (not targeted by protestors) to targeting statues of Nelson Mandela.

T_i_B

(14,805 posts)
5. Edward I was a bigger rival to Robert the Bruce
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 12:34 PM
Jun 2020

And he had a pretty awful record of bigotry, what with him expelling the Jews and everything.

Buckeye_Democrat

(15,058 posts)
6. Would somebody destroy the Cunningham's please?
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 12:42 PM
Jun 2020

As a Montgomery descendant, I recently learned that I should hate them. That is all.

Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
8. Good grief
Fri Jun 12, 2020, 04:53 PM
Jun 2020

Not sure I have words. It will not be the BLM movement though. He has no relevance to them. I am reckoning on the remnants of Combat 18 or something like that. Hardcore fascists with union through violence...

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