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New Orleans' Joan of Arc Statue Vandalized With 'Take It Down'
PJ Media ^ | 8/17/2017 | Tom Knighton

Posted on 08/18/2017 5:21:03 PM PDT by RightGeek

Another day, yet another statue of a military hero is reportedly under fire. This figure astride a horse was vandalized with the spray-painted words "Tear It Down."

Who was this historical figure? General Lee? Stonewall Jackson? Nathan Bedford Forrest?

No, this was a figure who hails from the north.

Of France:

The phrase "Tear it Down" was hastily sprayed in black paint across the base of the golden Joan of Arc statue on Decatur Street in the French Quarter sometime earlier this week. It has since been removed, with only the vaguest traces of the paint remaining.

The "Tear it Down" tag would seem to relate to the debate surrounding the city's ongoing removal of four Confederate monuments. But the statue of Joan of Arc, a 15th-century military leader, martyr and Catholic saint, hasn't been mentioned in the controversy to this point.

Amy Kirk Duvoisin, the founder of the annual Joan of Arc parade that ceremonially pauses at the statue on the first day of Carnival season, says she's confused by the vandalism.

"Surely, people realize she's not related to American history," she said referring to the French icon.

Nah, I wouldn't be so sure.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: antifa; blm; monuments; oops; waronart
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To: RightGeek
Since they hate it sooo much, I say let it flood.

Feed em fish heads, they don't deserve to live in this nation.

21 posted on 08/18/2017 5:34:54 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: RightGeek

Maybe they thought the flag she was flying was a Confederate flag. This is what you get when people who do not know history try to remove history.


22 posted on 08/18/2017 5:36:14 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: RightGeek
I seriously doubt Joan was a slaveowner.

Secessionist had she lived in the south, who knows.

23 posted on 08/18/2017 5:36:30 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: RightGeek

Joan of Arc?! Did she own slaves too?

Ninety-five per cent of these moonbats can’t even tell you who she was.


24 posted on 08/18/2017 5:37:28 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: rawcatslyentist

So much hate, so little time.

/s


25 posted on 08/18/2017 5:38:22 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: RightGeek

because these ignorant taliban fools who want monuments down have no idea about history. They see a statue and think it fits the socialist narrative


26 posted on 08/18/2017 5:38:38 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: JonPreston
> Not moonbats, they're Marxists. They hate Christians.

... and they are racists who hate White folks as well ...

27 posted on 08/18/2017 5:38:58 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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To: UCANSEE2

Excellent!


28 posted on 08/18/2017 5:39:01 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: RightGeek

‘Joan of Arc, a 15th-century military leader, martyr and Catholic saint’

no doubt a good number of people on this website see no problem with this...


29 posted on 08/18/2017 5:39:02 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: JonPreston

where was that?


30 posted on 08/18/2017 5:39:12 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: RightGeek

I hate to say this but they make Charles Manson gibberish talk sound sane. I can’t believe this is happening.


31 posted on 08/18/2017 5:39:28 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: snarkytart

Nope. Nowhere to be seen.


32 posted on 08/18/2017 5:39:35 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: RetiredArmy

They got a quality public education in New Orleans, Joan of Arc and Confederate Generals are easily confused, they are separated by hundreds of years and thousands of miles.


33 posted on 08/18/2017 5:39:41 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Salvation
Now they come for the Catholics?

Don't know who did this, but neither the Reich, nor the KKK, nor most communist governments much liked Catholics. Antifa being a violent successor communist group fits in. What potential protestors did I miss?

34 posted on 08/18/2017 5:39:58 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: Rummyfan

They don’t care. The confederacy stuff was just low hanging fruit. They’re coming for all whitey and their history. Goal is to end western culture and this country as we know it.


35 posted on 08/18/2017 5:40:07 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: RightGeek

Did we give up when Joan of Arc led the Confederate Army!? No!


36 posted on 08/18/2017 5:41:38 PM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I still think the Statue of Liberty needs to come down and be sent back to France where the French Muzzies can adore it.


37 posted on 08/18/2017 5:42:22 PM PDT by TonyM
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To: Patriot Babe

They are one in the same.


38 posted on 08/18/2017 5:42:24 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: RightGeek
Those fiberglass Colonel Sanders statues are next !

Mark my words.

39 posted on 08/18/2017 5:43:32 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PETA will attack Ronald


40 posted on 08/18/2017 5:46:29 PM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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