Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Take your point about your old headmaster, Ram...but, as Andy suggests, he was a ‘minor league’ player.

Caning of miscreants’ backsides may, or may not, be considered an ‘awful practice’...either way it hardly compares with the transportation into slavery of an estimated 84,000 individuals, 19,000 of whom didn’t survive.

Dare I say that tricky makes a valid point about the ancient eqyptians and for that matter what about the Romans, do we start pulling down the colliseum in Rome, where Christians were fed to the lions, for entertainment?

Where does it stop?

I think it's time to have balance and accept that previous practices, although condemned today, were widely accepted at the time. Is there any record of criticism of Colston actions during his life time?