Posted on 03/31/2021 2:56:04 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
The University of Winchester has unveiled its almost £24,000 statue of Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, angering staff who have faced years of cutbacks.
The £23,760 ($32,700) bronze monument to the teenager, who was elevated to international prominence by global leaders after she began skipping classes at her publicly-funded school on Fridays to protest a perceived lack of action on climate change, was slammed as a “vanity project” by staff at the university.
The Winchester branch of the University and College Union (UCU) said that although it “supports the role that Thunberg has played globally… This money should have been better used by preventing redundancies and other cuts at the university” after years of austerity.
“Not the ideal approach when spending university money.”
The university leadership, for its part, defended its expensive statue. “The university’s approach to art is to commission or purchase unusual and striking pieces which embody our distinctiveness and values,” pronounced Vice-Chancellor Joy Carter, insisting that “Greta is a young woman who, in spite of difficulties in her life, has become a world-leading environmental activist” and, “As the university for sustainability and social justice, we are proud to honour this inspirational woman in this way.”
The controversial move comes at a time when historic statues and memorials to Britain’s monarchs, prime ministers, war heroes, and great merchants and philosophers are being targeted by Black Lives Matter-inspired vandals, activists, and politicians, with some destroyed, some removed, and some “recontextualised” with plaques and information boards denouncing the figures they depict.
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Once again. Straight off the pages of the BabylonBee. Satire now impossible.
Winchester needs a statue to David Hogg for balance.
A life-sized statue of Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg is pictured after being unveiled on the campus of the University of Winchester in Winchester, Hampshire on March 31, 2021. – The £24,000 bronze statue which has been created to reflect the university’s values on “sustainability and social justice”, has been branded by Winchester University and College Union (UCU) as a “vanity project”.
$32,700?!
How dare you?!!!
Just saw a promo for a Hulu documentary on the little troll. Also, what’s the carbon footprint of the foundry?
Angered? How dare you!
I have a headache
She wishes her philtrum was that pronounced.
Guess spending 24,000 quid on saving the planet wasn’t entertained then? Gee, I wonder how the statue was made and transported.
The World has officially gone MAD!
She’s giving everyone the finger? Looks like it.
George: Don’t we have a deal with the birds?
Jerry: ...we look the other way on the statue...
It’s a sculpture of limitations!
Statue eh? I seem to recall these things are somewhat temporary.
Give them a taste of their own medicine and tear it down.
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