Put trigger warnings on statues? Feat. Emma Woolf, Mike Parry & Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | Jeremy Vine

A statue of author Virginia Woolf has had a QR code added to it that explains she had apparently 'unacceptable views' on racism, slavery and imperialism.'
The bust is in Tavistock Square, let's have a look at the statue and QR code.
The QR code says: “Her diaries and letters also present challenging, offensive comments and descriptions of race, class and ability which we would find unacceptable today.”
And that Woolf, and other members of her literary set, the Bloomsbury Group, dressed in blackface as Abyssinian royals for a hoax which showed her to be “someone who was a product of imperialist attitudes of the time”.
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[@PastaSauce.]

As a lover of history I like to know as much detail as possible. I think it’s brilliant to get a bigger insight.

[@iaindouglas4829]

This bloody program needs a “Trigger Warning”🙄

[@vikingfrog7204]

Jesus Christ if you need a trigger warning then don't leave the house

[@pinxtownington4645]

Leave him be x generation thick as a plank

[@856Edwin]

100% agree with Yasmin! Give people the full information and allow them to make up their own minds. It's not a trigger warning. It is information. The issue is that people like Mike want people to be presented one narrative and to follow that and not be given a choice.

[@boonsquits]

"It's information!" Who controls the information on the other side of that QR code? Public money shouldn't be used for this, not just because it's wasteful but because it would be easy for anyone to look up information on their phone. They need a phone anyway to scan the code.

[@jujutrini8412]

Nonsense. As long as the information is factual it is a good thing. If they are going to have writing on a statue it should have things like this.

[@PLl-jr8xi]

Is Yasmin dressed as a toddler in order to represent what's going to come out of her mouth?

[@KayHutchinson-x1i]

Ffs no we do not need a trigger warning . The moment this happened you are hanging a target around the persons neck. You are simply adding your own opinion . Spend the money on something useful

[@phil637]

HP Lovcraft US horror writer, love his stories, but its also known he was racest aganst irish & italians