Toppling statues begins the work of rewriting victors’ histories

Evidence

Toppling statues is an act of abolition, and abolishing histories inked with the lies of the victor and the blood of the victimized is that first step, that first ferocious step, toward writing new ones. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1167

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• ADDENDUM: Frames iconoclasm as abolition — parallels the reader’s published work on sacrifice and on trees-as-infrastructure in how material objects anchor ideological systems.