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This article discusses an event where a man damaged a Eric Gill sculpture outside the bbc in London. The man chipped off the sculpture’s penis, defaced its face and feet, and wrote “Noose all Peados” on it, citing Eric Gill’s known pedophilia and history as a convicted rapist. However, the author, Miles Mathis, argues that the event was staged and the sculpture damaged was a worthless concrete copy, not the original marble piece. He points to photographic evidence showing differences between the original installation and the damaged sculpture, suggesting the original was replaced at some point. Miles Mathis likens this to similar events in the US where statues were defaced or toppled, claiming these were also staged to create division and diversion, involving worthless copies or easily removable damage. He contrasts this with the fate of sculptures of George Floyd, Kyle Rittenhouse, and Ashli Babbitt, which he predicts will be melted down, while the “real” sculptures of figures like Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee will be restored.
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