英国卫报：萨达姆雕像的倒塌：美军如何制造神话(3)（在线收听）

The backlash was led by President Donald Trump, who signed an executive order declaring: "Many of the rioters, arsonists, and left-wing extremists who have carried out and supported these acts

美国总统唐纳德·特朗普带头发起了强烈反对，他签署了一项行政命令，宣布：“许多实施和支持这些行为的暴徒、纵火犯和左翼极端分子

have explicitly identified themselves with ideologies – such as Marxism – that call for the destruction of the United States system of government."

明确地将自己与马克思主义等意识形态等同起来，这些意识形态要求摧毁美国的政府体系。”

The order reiterated that those who damage federal property could face 10 years in jail.

该命令重申，破坏联邦财产的人可能面临10年监禁。

Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, said on Twitter that "those statues teach us about our past, with all its faults.

英国首相鲍里斯·约翰逊在推特上说，“这些雕像让我们了解了我们的过去，以及它所有的缺点。

To tear them down would be to lie about our history, and impoverish the education of generations to come."

如果把他们推倒，就等于对我们的历史撒谎，也会让下一代的教育变得贫瘠。”

The Conservative government announced that it would amend the Criminal Damage Act so anyone damaging a war memorial in Britain could also be looking at 10 years in prison.

保守党政府宣布将修改《刑事损害法》，任何破坏英国战争纪念碑的人也将面临10年监禁。

Museums and civic authorities were quick to react, too, though often in a different way.

博物馆和市政当局也迅速做出了反应，虽然通常是以不同的方式。

The day after the slave trader Colston's statue was pulled down, the Museum of London Docklands removed its own statue of another slave trader, Robert Milligan.

在奴隶贩子科尔斯顿的雕像被拆除的第二天，伦敦码头区博物馆拆除了它自己的另一名奴隶贩子罗伯特·米利根的雕像。

In the US and UK, rightwing Republican and Conservative administrations took the opportunity to position themselves as the champions of American and British civilisation: the last defence against barbarism and "political correctness".

在美国和英国，共和党和保守党的右翼政府抓住机会，将自己定位为英美文明的捍卫者：对抗野蛮和“政治正确”的最后一道防线。

In September 2020, the British culture secretary, Oliver Dowden, wrote to museums, threatening them with funding cuts if they took any actions "motivated by activism or politics".

2020年9月，英国文化大臣奥利弗·道登致信博物馆，威胁称，如果它们采取任何“出于激进主义或政治动机”的行动，就会削减资金。

On the face of it, the attacks on statues in 2020 followed a pattern:

从表面上看，2020年对雕像的袭击遵循了一种模式：

those who cheered on the protesters pulling them down tended to be younger and more socially liberal, while those who were dismayed by the destruction tended to be older and more conservative.

那些为抗议者推倒雕像而欢呼的人往往是更年轻、更崇尚社会自由主义的人，而那些对破坏感到沮丧的人往往是更年长、更保守的人。