WalterTrull
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So... how far the pendulum? Whose statue is next? I mean: Frederick Douglass ???
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So... how far the pendulum? Whose statue is next? I mean: Frederick Douglass ???
Nope... Err yes...So... how far the pendulum? Whose statue is next? I mean: Frederick Douglass ???
I guess you could call it the great statue War of 2020.
Funny. I didn't think this was political. I guess it is. What a shame. I just thought of it sort of... well... mass hysteria.
Both are historical. Im ok with slaves being memorialized as much as any historical figure out there. Personally I think it would be in the best interest for everybody if such things are restricted from government property in light on how people are behaving about things like this and kept on private lands respectively, such as historical and preservation societies.Those who want to keep the confederate statues on public/government property say it's about History, but when they go after anti slavery statues in retaliation, that tells you what it's really about.
I'm reminded of the Berlin Wall decoration as it was torn down.At this point I'd almost hate to see this monument to Robert E. Lee in Richmond removed. The community has transformed it into something far better than it ever was, originally.
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Generally, most people don't care about statues they don't care about.I am opposed to vandalism in general, but as long as the proper avenue is taken I am fine with any and all statues being taken down. I really don't understand why people get upset over statues being taken down.
happen when blacks & women offend someone, & get toppled?
The pendulum might just swing back, eh.
A giant monument to failure being swallowed up in a sea of individual self-expression. All those humans trying to be heard in a culture ruled by greed and stupidity.I'm reminded of the Berlin Wall decoration as it was torn down.
Historical figures have been criticized for other things,Well if those black men and women are genocidal tyrants and racist slavers than yes, their statues should be taken down.
You still propose no consistent standard....nor who gets to chooseIf Bill Cosby has a statue, maybe someone shouldd remove it, but even comparing Cosby to general Lee (the man not the car in the TV series) is unfair to Cosby. Serial rapist he might be, he wasn't a slaver nor the general in commading an army whose objective was to keep hundreds of thousands of people in bondage. Everybody is offensive to someone, not everybody is a slaver, a rapist, an assassin, a tyrant or a genocidal monster. Let's not make fallacious comparisons or balance fallacies.
You need to educate yourself about this. There is a great deal of information out there about how these Confederate statues were being raised during the Jim Crow area in the South as a way to intimate and suppress the Black populations. They were raised in an effort by the Daughters of the Confederacy to promote the myth of the Lost Cause, that imagined Blacks were happy parts of the White families, and the war was not over slavery at all, which is a big lie of course.I am opposed to vandalism in general, but as long as the proper avenue is taken I am fine with any and all statues being taken down. I really don't understand why people get upset over statues being taken down.
That's beautiful.At this point I'd almost hate to see this monument to Robert E. Lee in Richmond removed. The community has transformed it into something far better than it ever was, originally.
So... how far the pendulum? Whose statue is next? I mean: Frederick Douglass ???