[Olog-hai]

… he also slaughtered Africans by the thousands in colonial conquest …

Not even left-leaning Wikipedia can support that claim. (Wikipedia does cast aspersions on Rhodes’ sexuality though.)

[Gay State Conservative]

Having been to South Africa (but not recently) I’m tempted to think I know a bit more about the country than some Westerners...maybe even many.It’s a complicated country with a very unpleasant history for sure.That’s all I’ll say for now.

[PieterCasparzen]

Too bad kids, he’s a new world order hero !

[Don Corleone]

CR was a white supremacist and an extreme left winger to boot. ‘Rhodes scholars’ are expected to come away with the same philosophy.

[LambSlave]

This protest began with one student throwing human excrement onto the statue. What was your reaction to that? Everyone, including myself, condemned the action, saying this is not the way to get your point across. But the question comes up: What would drive a person to do this? I mean, I don't even know where I would begin to go to collect human feces. But I talked to him [Chumani Maxwele, who threw the feces]. He literally leaves his house, turns right and there it is in the street. He wanted the statue to feel ashamed, the same way he feels ashamed that these feces are in his living environment.

Obviously all Cecil Rhodes fault that the students' peers think its okay to poop in the street, and that the students themselves have so little impulse control that they would commit such an act, and such limited intellect that they would connect Mr. Rhodes to their self-imposed plight. The government has been entirely controlled by blacks for decades now, when will they take responsibility for their own problems?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

The Third World wants all indications of Western superiority removed from their sight.

[Leaning Right]

I’m not seeing any big issue here. Political lines get redrawn all the time (for both good and bad reasons). Statues go up. Statues go down. I’m sure the colonialists didn’t leave many statues of George III up after the Revolutionary War ended.

[x]

By all means tear it down ...

I get really uncomfortable every time we sail underneath it ...

[cripplecreek]

Rhodes was a fabian socialist.

That’s enough.

[nathanbedford]

It is one thing to tear down a statue and quite another to tear down the whole side of a mountain. If things continue on course it is only a question of time until we face the task of tearing down the images of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson on Mount Rushmore because they were slave owners.

I suppose they can use dynamite…

[CharlesOConnell]

Bill Clinton’s favorite Georgetown Professor, Carroll Quigley, got the goods on Rhodes’ attempt to form a one world government, roughly called The Roundtable, in The Anglo American Establisment. When the US wouldn’t come in, the British Commonwealth was formed as a Plan B.

[Altura Ct.]

Yes of course tear it down because black rule is great! South Africa following Zimbabwe to the s**thole.

[Zionist Conspirator]

According to the Birchers, Cecil Rhodes was a high-ranking figure among those who were Secretly Behind Communism.

When are the Rhodes Scholarships going to change their name?

[Rummyfan]

...but he also slaughtered Africans by the thousands in colonial conquest and helped lay the foundations of apartheid in South Africa.

Oh, BS!