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Far From Dixie, Outcry Grows Over a Wider Array of Monuments
NY Times ^ | August 25, 2017 | Trip Gabriel

Posted on 08/25/2017 3:29:16 AM PDT by C19fan

It began with calls to remove Confederate generals. But since the violence in Charlottesville, Va., two weeks ago, the anger from the left over monuments and public images deemed racist, insensitive or inappropriate has quickly spread to statues of Christopher Columbus, the former Philadelphia tough cop Mayor Frank Rizzo, Boston’s landmark Faneuil Hall, a popular Chicago thoroughfare and even Maryland’s state song. An Asian-American sportscaster named Robert Lee was pulled from broadcasting a University of Virginia football game so as not to offend viewers.


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: dixie; left; monuments; purge
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Let us go full Fahrenheit 451:

Coloured people don't like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don't feel good about Uncle Tom's Cabin. Burn it. Someone's written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book.

Let us destroy all the monuments and memorials just to be safe. You don't like Confederates. We don't like Woodrow Wilson and FDR so all of them go. Perhaps exceptions for Saint MLK, Saint Harvey Milk, and Saint Obama.

1 posted on 08/25/2017 3:29:16 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Washington Monument.
Jefferson Memorial.
Mount Rushmore.

All have to go.
Insane.


2 posted on 08/25/2017 3:39:45 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: C19fan

Eight years of a racist president and the follow-up anti-Trump hysteria have resulted in mass hysteria. Hopefully, at least some of the participants will look back in a year or so and feel foolish. Then again, they may turn nostalgic like the sixties hippies cum stock brokers who pay a million dollars for a VW van. Maybe they’ll collect masks.


3 posted on 08/25/2017 3:43:22 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: C19fan

No it is time for the American left to go. They can leave peacefully or be sterilized.


4 posted on 08/25/2017 3:43:48 AM PDT by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: InterceptPoint

In a day gone by, we used to put away the insane where they could not hurt themselves or others. Now they roam the earth free to express themselves and free of any oath to do no harm.


5 posted on 08/25/2017 3:46:35 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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Let us go full Fahrenheit 451:

You can bet libraries are on the list....just biding their time as the insanity spreads.

6 posted on 08/25/2017 3:48:57 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Gen.Blather

When I see hipsters driving VAs I remind them that they are Hitler cars.


7 posted on 08/25/2017 3:50:13 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Gen.Blather

VWs


8 posted on 08/25/2017 3:50:34 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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A novel idea. All fags, ANTIFA, perverts, limp wristed cry babies, illegals and gun control folks move to California and leave the rest of the sane working class people and their statues alone.


9 posted on 08/25/2017 4:01:01 AM PDT by okie 54
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A couple nights ago, they tried to sneak around and remove a 20+ foot tall, 8.5 ton monument in Bradenton, FL. They dropped and broke it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GG-0XnkAWRY.
10 posted on 08/25/2017 4:09:21 AM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: DarthVader

M134. GE brings good things to life.


11 posted on 08/25/2017 4:10:10 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

The ultimate CIRD. CIRD = Communist Infestation Removal Device.


12 posted on 08/25/2017 4:13:01 AM PDT by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: Gen.Blather

Mass hysteria?

The perception of mass hysteria, perhaps (or rather... not quite yet).

But “mission creep” from leftist agenda driven (propaganda) social engineering to media coop and their vision of a morphed 1st amendment interpretation; Carter’ NEA, EPA, and OGA regulatory over-reach we find ourselves in the putrified alluvial muck of governmental Salmagundi.


13 posted on 08/25/2017 4:16:23 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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Let us make all of these history revisionist happy. Remove all occurrences of every damn person that ever influences our nation or the world. Yep everyone. And here forth with (love that phrase)there will never ever be a person historised for their contribution to our Country. NO ships, bridges, roads, plants, or buildings named after them. We will print catchee phrases on them instead, "We shall not REMEMBER the SACRIFICE".

When a person does something that influences direction of the US, upon his/her death all literature, calculations, news reels (love that too), video and transcripts will be piled up and burned. If this person made a mark on the Country he/she will not be interned but incinerated and his/her ashes spread to the 4 points of the Globe.

Let's see how far we get ahead or long we last (which will not be long the way we are going) as a nation when we destroy all of our history and quit storing it for PROSPERITY.

14 posted on 08/25/2017 4:25:15 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it, but ready to go again)
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Clinton commemorated a statue of Segregationist J William Fulbright on Arkansas University campus. I wonder why Liberals are forgetting to tear that one down. Hm.


15 posted on 08/25/2017 4:29:59 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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Imagine!

https://www.beatlesbible.com/1981/10/09/john-lennon-statue-los-angeles/

John Lennon statue is unveiled in Los Angeles

Well, that one has to go, also!

(that ought to get the Antifa knickers in a twist!)


16 posted on 08/25/2017 4:30:11 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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Hopefully, at least some of the participants will look back in a year or so and feel foolish.

I've been thinking about this lately. In previous mass hysterias - peak oil, over population, hole in the ozone, heterosexual AIDS, etc. there really wasn't much of a record for most people.

In the digital age, everything is recorded history. Folks may need to own up to their fevered, impulsive idiocy. Or, perhaps that's what's driving this mania to erase history?

17 posted on 08/25/2017 4:40:39 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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Shut down now every school before the can teach any history or uncomfortable facts.


18 posted on 08/25/2017 4:46:01 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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Was it the city of Bradenton that removed and damaged it?

Now I'm thinking taxpayers should pay monthly Reparations to qualified individuals in Chicago—to test a point.

19 posted on 08/25/2017 4:49:27 AM PDT by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...)
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We are truly living in the crazy years!


20 posted on 08/25/2017 4:49:53 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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