you think elon’s biz partners will let this video stay up or shut down twitter over it?
Not a fan of burning museums and history.
Not sure if serious. This “museum” celebrated the life of Ayatollah fucking Khomeini.
What if it’s a museum curated by the Daughters of the Confederacy
I am absolutely serious. Khomeini’s house is an important cultural artifact that should be preserved, especially if it’s a museum presumably full of more history. Destroying history is bad. That’s ISIS shit.
i lost you right there. many cultures burn or destroy their own cultural artifacts all the time. this is not what makes us the same as isis
I agree that burning down museums is bad in isolation but it seems like this would be more of a shrine than a genuine museum, and I am also definitely not going to pearl-clutch about how protestors choose to express symbolic contempt for the regime. I am typically against killing people also but some of that is probably going to happen if the regime is ever going to be overthrown.
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How bad does someone have to be before we shouldn‘t have a museum dedicated to them? Asking Iranians to respect the sanctity of a shrine to their oppressor is quite the hot take.
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I’m not asking them to maintain it as a glorious monument to Khomeini, just, you know, not fucking torch the place in a mob.
How do you feel about the Barbie Museum?
if it shortens the regime by a year, it might be worth it
Fine by me. There already is one.
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a good reminder that nothing is permanent
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This comes down to how people interpret the museums. Do they get lessons out of them? Or do they get persuaded/softened by them?
Museums surrounding the Australian colonists who annihilated the indigenous populations, should we remove them? In Australia we definitely ask the few remaining indigenous to respect that sanctity of a shrine to their oppressors (one could argue further that virtually everything is a shrine for colonialism). History is often written by the winners, sometimes that’s good and sometimes it isn’t.
Seems to be both easily recoverable and not terribly important so I don’t care.
Honestly not sure why there is so much pushback to thinking it would be nice if the revolution could avoid burning historic buildings with historic content in the heat of the revolt. Seems like an incredibly reasonable thing to wish for, and something many, many combatants have gone out of their way to achieve throughout history. The unfortunately frequent failure to do so is also widely regretted after.
I’m not exactly pushing back. I’m trying to understand.
Like. I think we can agree.
Taliban bombing Buddhist statues. Definitely bad.
Trying to bomb Hitler’s house… with him in it. Definitely okay.
Somewhere between the two theres a transition. I dont think it’s as black and white as you make out.
The house of a dictator, whose regime is currently shooting kids in the face for not wanting to be beaten to death for showing some hair… now that seems a little more like the latter than the former.
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I think it’s just that the Iranian security forces are firing into crowds and killing children, so preserving certain buildings just isn’t going to make most peoples’ priority lists.
It’s not anybody’s current home. It is the childhood home of Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the Iranian Revolution, founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who has been dead for decades. A shitty person by all accounts, but pretty important historically, and not much of a threat to anybody.