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AP: Deadly rally accelerates removal of Confederate statues
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Baron von Loathsome
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It's cool, unless you're brown.
Tangled Up in Blue
Banned
Someone on Twitter proposed replacing the statue of Lee in Charlottesville with a statue of her and I think that is an amazing idea.
DrForester
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Mmmmmm. That's some good satire.
As your Doctor, I am protesting the removal of your tumor because I don't want to erase your medical history
As your Doctor, I am protesting the removal of your tumor because I don't want to erase your medical history
MrPhiliasfrog
Member
It really surprised me how many there are.
UnemployedVillain
Member
I love how the rally was literally the cause of this. Like these statues would still be up had these "free speech" people hadn't rallied. The irony is more delicious than anything I could've imagined
PlayALLtheGames
Banned
First UF tells Spencer, "Nah" and now a confederate statue in G-Ville gets taken down, by members of Daughters of the Confederacy no less! Never thought I'd be so proud of that little town!
facetheslayer92
Member
Great seeing these monuments come down. They literally serve no historical purpose whatsoever as at least 95% of these memorials, monuments, and markers were erected after 1900 during Jim Crow to intimidate Black people.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Exactly. And to hear the president say they can't be comparably replaced is appalling. Statues of nameless people doing everyday things would be light years better in comparison.
7DollarHagane
Banned
Lol so the white trash manbaby temper tantrum is accelerating the process of removing these. That's the best possible outcome for such a horrible last weekend event.
Keep a few of the oldest ones in a few museums and melt down the rest.
Keep a few of the oldest ones in a few museums and melt down the rest.
Raigan5088
Banned
Man, America is such a backward country
Start burning the books next?
Start burning the books next?
GoldenEye 007
Member
It'll take your hot take to light the fire.
Raigan5088
Banned
Certainly wont be the USA's hot intellect that voted in Trump and are now trying to delete history
Reminds me of ISIS eradicating sites in the Middle East
A Link to the Past
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We generally do not create books in order to worship them.
What history? These statues were erected decades after the Civil War, many in the mid-1990s. What history is there?
As far as the ISIS comparison, I guess I'd ask you what their motives are.
you obviously don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
GoldenEye 007
Member
How about you actually learn the history of many of these statues first before making dumb ass comparisons to book burnings and ISIS activity.
Raigan5088
Banned
Shall you tear down the White House as it represents slave labour?
Psychoward
Banned
lol
A Link to the Past
Banned
That's a weird comparison. The White House's purpose isn't to represent and protect slavery, whereas statues meant to glorify the Confederacy are.
What history? Most of those garbage statues are recent and have been done purely to intimidate people and literally nothing else.
If you think this is "history", then i'm going to take a dump at your doorstep, and you won't be able to remove it. It's "history" now. Don't delete it.
Horrible analogy to round off your ignorance to actual history.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
No one is deleting history. They're removing statues of folks who lost a war and placing them in storage or wherever else..
Brushguy Woodthreep
Member
Permanently destroying unique sites that are hundreds of years old = moving some mass-produced statues away from their prominent public locations
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Maybe we should erect statues of Hitler and celebrate his great history while we are at it.
Seriously though educate yourself better about what these confederate statues
1. Represent
2. The people they are memorializing
3. Why and when they were built.
A Link to the Past
Banned
The alt is coming from inside your account
Gordon Shumway
Banned
So, you're comparing the Daughters of the Confederacy taking their participation trophies and storing/protecting them to ISIS..ok.
you'll be happy to know that everyone's internet connections are still intact, and we also have books that contain lots of history!
Although the WH was built by slaves, doesn't represent slave labor. To me, the major difference between these confederate monuments and all of these "other" things being likened to them is that these confederate monuments are rallying points for the Klan/Nazis. Statutes of Washington, the WH, etc. are not.
Sweet sweet trolling right here
Electric Eye
Banned
I'm not even going to pretend to be shocked but their is a confederate monument erected in a cemetery in Santa Ana, CA that is also being considered removed. It's in a private cemetery so it's taking time. Motherfucking OC doesn't fail to disappoint again.
🤦*♂️
Colin pls.
Reminds me of every other pearl clutching junior banned for false equivalence.
yanipheonu
Member
To be fair, we Canadians have done it before.
facetheslayer92
Member
Deleting history? Look at when these statues were erected and who they glorify.
Ah, the good ol' alt rights alt account.
"Guys I'm totally a "insert minority" on the left, here's my talking points from Fox News."
It was me, Barry!
It's sort of cathartic seeing posters dismantle their points so quickly though, helps formulate arguments for the idiots I speak to in real life.
Can we trade Trudeau for Trump? we'll let you burn it down again if we can...
A Link to the Past
Banned
Raigan burnt themselves with their hot takes, had to go cool off
LegalEagleMike
Member
Juat replace the statues with Ohio Generals.
gay liberal sockpuppets!!!
Captin Quacker
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Order>justice
Chmpocalypse
Blizzard
Take your false equivalencies out of here. You're transparent. We see through you.