Posted on 06/26/2015 12:46:52 PM PDT by HomerBohn
“It’s so bad….it’s like having a statue of Hitler”
Liberals at the University of Texas signed a petition to remove a statue of GeorgeWashington and memorials to other founding fathers in another illustration of thepolitically correct insanity that has emerged in the wake of the Charleston massacre.
(Watch video at link)
Students at the University have started an actual petition to remove statues of Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Confederate army, and Albert Sidney Johnston, a Confederate general who died during the Civil War, remarking, “It is impossible to reach the full potential of an inclusive and progressive learning institution while putting an idol of our darkest days on a pedestal.”
Black Lives Matter protesters also vandalized the statues earlier this week.
Given the fact that America’s Commander-in-Chief during the revolutionary war against the British and first President George Washington owned slaves his entire life and only emancipated them after his death, would UT students also support a move to wipeWashington from the pages of history?
The answer is yes, many of them would.
Several also agreed that demolishing the statues would be a fantastic way of controlling the future by re-writing history, a line lifted straight out of George Orwell’s 1984.
“It’s so bad it’s like as if you’re having a statue of maybe Hitler or someone like that,” said one trendy as he signed the petition.
Others were convinced to sign after being told that eradicating the statues was part of shifting the country towards socialism.
Another student agreed to sign the petition immediately after hearing the words “racist statues,” while another man said the statues represented “treason”.
As we reported yesterday, CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield suggested that statues of Thomas Jefferson should also be removed because he owned slaves. Co-host Don Lemon remarked that, “There may come a day when we want to re-think Jefferson.”
The L.A. Times also weighed in the farce, noting that statues of Jefferson join “other public statues depicting Southern or Confederate figures, including Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, that some are arguing represent the country’s racist past and should be removed.”
Top retailers like Amazon, eBay, Sears and Walmart have all removed Confederate flags from sale (while continuing to sell Nazi memorabilia), while Warner Bros has announced that it will stop making the iconic Dukes of Hazzard car because it features the rebel flagon its roof.
Even the multiple Academy Award winning classic Gone With the Wind may not be safe, with film critic By Lou Lumenick calling for its censorship because the movie offers “the most iconic glimpse” of the Confederate flag. Nazi book burners would be proud.
Numerous other Army bases, parks and memorials are also under scrutiny, with former Georgia congressman Ben Lewis Jones, who is now chairman of Heritage Operations for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, declaring the move a form of “cultural cleansing.”
Demolishing history because it offends your belief system….now where have I seen that before?
lol.
George Washington first became a slave owner at the early age of eleven.
Our first president’s statue should be replaced with our first Muslim president’s statue.
The dimwit who said that probably thinks Hitler was the guy who invented Super Mario, but then did “sumphthing really bad...later...like, in his life to get such a bad reputation and all.”
“It was such a long time ago...probably before, like, I was born even”
Hummm praying is always good, but it may be time for an alternate strategy. Just saying.
Controversial Bust at TN Senate Chambers
http://www.newstalk987.com/2015/06/23/controversial-bust-at-tn-senate-chambers/
CNN’s Don Lemon: Maybe We Will ‘Rethink Jefferson’ Memorial - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2015/06/24/cnns-don-lemon-maybe-we-will-rethink-jefferson-memorial
NY Post film critic: It’s about time we retired “Gone With the Wind” too, don’t you think?
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/24/ny-post-film-critic-its-about-time-we-retired-gone-with-the-wind-too-dont-you-think/
Nearly 200 schools are named for Confederate leaders. Is it time to rename them?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/nearly-200-schools-are-named-for-confederate-leaders-is-it-time-to-rename-them/2015/06/24/838e2cc0-1aaa-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html
U.S. Flag Waves Over 10 Army Bases Proudly Named for Confederate Officers
http://time.com/3932914/army-bases-confederate/
School Board Committee Votes To Ban “Dixie” Song & Rebel Mascot At Southside High School
http://5newsonline.com/2015/06/23/school-board-votes-to-ban-dixie-song-rebel-mascot-at-southside-high-school/
FARRAKHAN: I DON’T GET DEBATE OVER CONFEDERATE FLAG, ‘WE NEED TO PUT THE AMERICAN FLAG DOWN’
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/06/24/farrakhan-i-dont-get-debate-over-confederate-flag-we-need-to-put-the-american-flag-down/
Petition: Remake the Confederate Memorial Carving on Stone Mountain, in Georgia.
https://www.change.org/p/remake-the-confederate-memorial-carving-on-stone-mountain-in-georgia
White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6592741/2015/06/24/white-americans-are-biggest-terror-threat-united-states
When do have to start carrying the Little Red Obama Books?
If you don't like George Washington, what the hell are you doing HERE? LEAVE. PLEASE LEAVE. PLEASE DO IT NOW.
The ignorant “onesie boy” who said that ought to go live in North Korea when the leader completely agrees with him and has a way of life that he can only dream of.
They will probably propose replacing it with their hero, Che.’
Our cultural revolution is following the path of China’s. Our history will be erased — Washington’s Monument, Jefferson’s Monument, writings by the founding fathers, the very Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The Chinese experience shows us what to expect in erasing our past. (Per Wiki):
China’s historical sites, artifacts and archives suffered devastating damage as they were thought to be at the root of “old ways of thinking”. Many artifacts were seized from private homes and museums and often destroyed on the spot. There are no records of exactly how much was destroyed. Western observers suggest that much of China’s thousands of years of history was in effect destroyed or, later, smuggled abroad for sale, during the short ten years of the Cultural Revolution. Chinese historians compare the cultural suppression during the Cultural Revolution to Qin Shihuang’s great Confucian purge. Religious persecution intensified during this period, because religion was seen as being opposed to Marxist–Leninist and Maoist thinking.[133]
Although being undertaken by some of the Revolution’s enthusiastic followers, the destruction of historical relics was never formally sanctioned by the Communist Party, whose official policy was instead to protect such items. Indeed, on May 14, 1967, the CCP central committee issued a document entitled Several suggestions for the protection of cultural relics and books during the Cultural Revolution.[134] Nevertheless, enormous damage was inflicted on China’s cultural heritage. For example, a survey in 1972 in Beijing of 18 key spots of cultural heritage including the Temple of Heaven and Ming Tombs showed extensive damage. Of the 80 cultural heritage sites in Beijing under municipal protection, 30 were destroyed, and of the 6,843 cultural sites under protection by Beijing government decision in 1958, 4,922 were damaged or destroyed.[135] Numerous valuable old books, paintings, and other cultural relics were also destroyed.[136]
The Confederate Battle flag has taken on new meanings for me:
-- It means, a resistance to the tyranny of political correctness.
-- It means hostility to censorship, to the point of death.
-- It means, opposition to mindless hysteria.
-- It means, pure antipathy — nay, hatred! — of the media for fanning the flames of hysteria and aggravating the uproar.
-- It means great objection to being backstabbed by the party — the Republicans — that tries to convince me that they are my home.
TEXAS TALIBAN/ISIS .... has signed a Petition to Remove ‘Racist’ George Washington Statue
I was checking in at the VA clinic this morning and the black lady helping me kept answering the phone and no one would be on the line. She said “That’s happened about five time in the last hour.”
I said “The next time it rings answer it by saying “Who the heck is this who keeps calling me and not saying anything?’” Then I said “Of course it could be the Director of the VA.”
She said “Then I’d have to start speaking Spanish real quick so I wouldn’t be fired.” We both laughed. I mentioned gay marriage and she said “Doesn’t that make you sick?” This black lady knows what is happening is not good.
I was born and raised in the South. I recently ordered my first “rebel” artifacts.
These dipsh*ts are really over playing their hand. I look forward to the snap back.
Let’s grant a name unto these forward-thinking students. How about Komsomol?
LIBs are malignancies on decent societies everywhere. Oh but they would return to their home planet: BizzaroWorld.
I’m with you, Laz.
Mark Levin had a great idea. Go after every building named after the great racist, Woodrow Wilson, the guy who reintroduced segregation and hailed “Birth of a Nation.”
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