• FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      Better 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.”