Dark Cloud
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Good job on this mayor.
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Kentucky mayor: 2 Confederate statues to come down after Charlottesville
- Thread starter Slayven
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Lightning_Roller
Banned
This is a dark timeline we are in....it's full of surprises.
Icanplaythat
Member
Agreed, my concern is that these statues will just be destroyed or hidden. They should be put in museums, we should not be ignoring or covering up the past.
Psychoward
Banned
Denazification wasn't the best solution lol? If we deconfederized in America like they did in Germany we wouldn't be having this conversation.
plus that gif i a pretty big symbolic fuck you and it's great
Actually this is a thing that has been going on all year.
Yep, this is depressing.
I would love to see all of these destroyed before I die (hopefully of old age). I'm 33. I am not optimistic.
CarpeDeezNutz
Member
Take them down Saddam style.
Denazification wasn't the best solution for who?
No, be proud of Gray or Lexington. Our State still re-elected Rand Paul for the Senate.
TheStruggler
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Canadian here just a question, WHY THE FUCK ARE THESE STILL UP IN THE FIRST PLACE!!???
GoldenEye 007
Member
Record it being blown up like in the gif. Problem solved. Other artifacts put into museums. Not that complicated.
Zap Rowsdower
Banned
Because Confederate leaders weren't hanged from the gallows like they should have been.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Good.
SolarPowered
Member
Charlottesville should absolutely result in a domino effect. The traitorous past of the confederacy needs to be acknowledged and shamed for as long as the US exists.
*shrugs shoulders*
Johnson gave them cushy government jobs and a clean slate instead of the noose.
*shrugs shoulders*
Kuroi Gogeta
Member
This. What on earth is he going on about? More important than what is said, is what ISNT said. Statues of traitors and a flag that is the symbol of white supremacy in the US being allowed to stay up does nothing but minimize the sacrifice of the thousands that had to kill and die in order to make sure that slavery was not the law of the land and the south could not be the sole owners of power in the US.
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
Take them down and laugh while they fall.
Bullshit! Take a picture of it if you want it preserved but then destroy all symbols of white supremacy.
theignoramus
Member
You have White Republicans in Alabama and Mississippi who have gone on record saying they support violent measures to stop Confederate monuments being removed in their state.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Because a good chunk of America believes the Confederacy were war heroes fighting to protect their rights instead of traitors and racists.
bobbychalkers
Member
America gave high ranking confederates jobs in government and sabotaged the Reconstruction era.
You right.....we need to use higher power explosives and put the remains in the sewers
Violence Jack
Member
White nationalists rallies causing Confederate statues to come down is a thing of beauty.
theignoramus
Member
Isnt that what books and museums are for? After what these people did to Tulsa, Rosewood, and dozens of other Black neighborhoods, I couldnt care less about their sentimental feelings about Confederate monuments. I hope these monuments being ripped down eats them alive inside.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
Fantastic..
IdreamofHIME
Member
Shouldn't have announced it, should have just done it. Now there'll be a shitshow circus.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Because America fucked up and allowed one of the rare occasions of the losers of a major war being able to write their own History.
UK students are about to move back in. If there's a protest, there will be a lot of counter protests too.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Likewise. Flying back to KY tomorrow. Expecting a shitstorm from this. Wonder what the lil Hobbit will say about it.
SolidSnakex
Member
What can you teach with them that you can't without them? The fact that they exist in the first place is what got us here. Germany got on their shit quick. Executed the collaborators and blew up and got rid of any remnants of that horror. America on the other hand celebrated the confederates by erecting statues of those fuckers along with putting them into office.
Hmm. I feel conflicted because I'm not so sure I'd be against violent measures to have them removed.
AuthenticM
Member
Take them all down.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
They were already planning to remove them. The terror attack just moved it up. It's all in the op.
Must be nice to have no skin in the game, must be nice
Were the statues not still up today?
They're not going to be purged like that. You'll always be able to find them in museums.
StrangeRoboMemory
Member
Good.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
And it takes time and resources to move things like that. They already planned to move them. They are just removing them faster because of today. Again, as the OP states. Or are you mad they weren't removed by dusk today?
PhoncipleBone
Banned
That would be a huge undertaking. Unless they make the lasers in the laser show actually cut away the rock.
Good, these monuments to the Confederacy's atrocious (and I use that word in the literal sense) history should be nowhere near any context that could be construed as reverential or celebratory. Museums - fine, but the Confederacy was absolute one of the most abhorrent stains on our nation's history and should be remembered as nothing less than inhumanly cruel and reprehensible.