‘There is an overwhelming majority that does not share this decision,’ President Luis Lacalle Pou says, amid political row.
  • Sem@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    They weren’t hit by WWII, Nazism is not a tragedy for them, so why should they care?

    • FaceDeer@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s simply historically significant. If an American bought the Mona Lisa and declared that he intended to eat it I’m sure there’d be plenty of outcry even though Leonardo da Vinci wasn’t American.

      • Sem@lemmy.ml
        2·
        1 year ago

        Better analogy is inside the publication as a quote of Aldo Lamorte, a member of parliament with the president’s conservative National Party:

        “The Roman Coliseum was NOT destroyed because Christians were killed there.”