Originally Posted by
CockoftheRoot
I find it strange that there’s a statue of Governor Macquarie in Hyde Park that says, "He was a perfect gentleman, a Christian and supreme legislator of the human heart." When he ordered the shooting of Aboriginal people and then, “Such natives as happen to be killed on such occasions, if grown up men, are to be hanged up on Trees in Conspicuous Situations, to Strike the Survivors with the greater terror.”
Of course people in history should be judged by current standards if we’re to learn anything about the past, although I think instead of tearing the statues down we should just add facts like the ones above to the plaques.
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