Universities minister: removing Rhodes statue would be ‘short-sighted’

Michelle has a BA in History and Politics. She knows very well that with every article, with every book historians publish, they are literally re-writing history. She cannot claim ignorance here, unless her lecturers failed to instil this very basic stuff into her. It makes you wonder. If she doesn't know such a basic thing, her degree may have gone over her head. If she does, then why the denial of something so basic?

Removing a statue that glorifies an individual whose ideals are no longer in line with modern Britain is not editing, censoring, or rewriting history. If you want to learn about history, you read a book. You do not go around looking at statues - unless you're interested in, say, the history of sculpture. History is written down, not cast in bronze. Statues are there to glorify people and if they are no longer considered worthy of that admiration, then the statues must come down. Put them in a museum if you care so much about preserving them.