nigelswift wrote:
First, it won't change the mindset of those who want to say she was wonderful - in fact, it will strengthen their belief that she was right, and will therefore be counter-productive.
Both of these presume that the intention is to change the minds of those who know who she was and love her for it. That isn't the intention.It is to show that this person was not what those adorers will claim, that she is a universally feted figure whose detractors have been proven wrong and that history has vindicated her.
There are a great many people who don't know who she was and what she did. There can be no more immediate demonstration of that than people converging to celebrate her death.
A day of quiet remembrance hands the mic to her acolytes. It means her ideas are more accepted, and therefore more likely to hold sway in future.
