What is the intellectual framing of the UK statues debate?

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Question: What is the intellectual framing of the UK statues debate?
Position‹4 of 4: "We should re-imagine what these statues stand for!"

This position holds that controversial UK statues should be re-imagined rather than simply venerated or torn down. It seeks a more productive path that neither honours the evils some statues represent nor encourages a vigilante culture of destruction — reframing what they stand for.

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Vandalism is art
The obvious solution that stops history from being wiped out, yet highlights the wrongdoing of controversial figures, is turning them into pieces of art. The vandalism itself should be seen as a piece of performative history, in which the heroes of the past face the morality of the present.