this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
84 points (96.7% liked)

World News

48866 readers
1516 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

A colonial-era statue honouring a former Australian premier who mutilated the body of an Aboriginal man has been toppled by vandals ahead of its planned removal.

In a ruling on Wednesday, a tribunal upheld a landmark decision to have the monument to William Crowther in Tasmania taken down permanently - putting to rest years of debate.

But in the hours before the ruling protesters cut down the structure by sawing through its legs.

The plinth was then left graffitied with the words "what goes around" and "decolonize".

Crowther is accused of cutting off and stealing the skull of William Lanne, an Aboriginal Tasmanian leader known as "King Billy", whose body was dismembered and used for scientific research after his death in 1869.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They did well enough be a word root for a verb... not many cultures become a verb.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but mostly only because they sacked Rome once Rome was virtually undefended anyway. But it was the first time it happened in centuries, so I guess someone decided it was important.