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British University Splurges over £23,000 on Statue of Greta Thunberg

Posted on 06/15/2021 By TCT Admin No Comments on British University Splurges over £23,000 on Statue of Greta Thunberg
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The University of Winchester is spending over £23,000 ($31,500) on a statue of Swedish local weather activist Greta Thunberg, it has been revealed.

“The statue of Greta Thunberg was commissioned in 2019 and funded by the University as part of the West Downs Centre development,” a spokesman for the general public analysis college confirmed in feedback reported by The Hampshire Chronicle.

“The statue cost £23,760, within the overall £50m budget for the West Downs Centre,” the spokesman stated of the massive bronze, which was sculpted by Christine Charlesworth and is titled ‘Make a Difference’.

“The university wanted a sculpture of Greta because it is a very ‘green’ university, and they feel that Greta will be an inspiration to all the students,” Charlesworth defined.

Greta Thunberg is now forged in bronze and I’ll go to the foundry subsequent week to see patination – Winchester need her…

Posted by Christine Charlesworth on Saturday, March 13, 2021

Winchester has commissioned the woke monument at a time when the United Kingdom continues to be wracked by so-called “statue wars”, with left-wing teachers, politicians, and social justice activists in search of to have historic monuments, buildings, and place names eliminated, renamed, or “recontextualised” with new plaques and knowledge boards detailing the supposed crimes of the figures they depict or are related to.

The phenomenon is an outgrowth of the Black Lives Matter motion within the United States, which unfold throughout the Atlantic following the demise of George Floyd in Minneapolis however lacked a transparent goal for its ire.

Many outstanding retailers turned philanthropists born previous to the abolition of slave commerce, chief amongst them former parliamentarian Edward Colston, have fallen sufferer to the tried purge, with anybody who held shares in corporations linked to slavery or who inherited enterprise pursuits in any manner concerned with slave labour being decreased to the standing of “slave trader”.

Other targets have included Scottish Englightenment philosophers David Hume, whose alma mater has renamed buildings named in his proprietor, and Adam Smith, the “father of economics”, whose grave has turn out to be a topic of scrutiny.

Monarchs, prime ministers, and struggle heroes together with Queen Victoria, Sir Winston Churchill, and peculiar officers and troopers have additionally been focused by campaigners (and vandals) merely for being linked to the British Empire and “colonialism”, or for making remarks thought-about politically incorrect by the requirements of the Twenty first-century left.

Year of the Statue Smashers: How BLM Violence and Identity Politics Crossed the Atlantic in 2020 https://t.co/iTvdMW0zjC

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 3, 2021

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