Posted on 08/18/2017 2:02:30 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Corporate-owned Vice Magazine posted an article urging “Let’s Blow Up Mount Rushmore” which called for Americans’ politics, culture, and history to be purified by political fire.
“Let’s take with us the righteous ideas and beliefs and leave everything else on the pyre,” says the article about Rushmore by Wilbert Cooper, who is a senior editor at Vice.com. The media company is part-owned by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, and by A&E Networks, which is fully owned by Hearst Communications and Disney-ABC Television Group. According to Cooper:
More than ever, old monuments to famous white American men are being threatened … [because] the only way we can help America fulfill her promise is by shedding the faith and facing the truth. A big part of that process probably involves taking those men we’ve placed so high and bringing them back down to Earth where we can judge them for who they really were… As long as we allow those men to be cults of personality who exist beyond reproach, we’re never going to be able to see them for all of their good and all of their evil.
The article’s headline was later changed to “Let’s Get Rid of Mount Rushmore.”
Vice also deleted a tweet promoting the first headline:
The company explained why it delete the tweet and headline, saying:
Cooper argues that the nation’s historical markers and monuments help preserve a political system of racial exploitation and inequality, and should be erased to help build a new society.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
This needs to stop and whoever talks about taking out statutes or blowing up monuments needs to be put in jail so they are not a threat.
“As long as we allow those men to be cults of personality who exist beyond reproach, we’re never going to be able to see them for all of their good and all of their evil.”
How can you “see them” at all if they and their “cult” are erased from the place in history they were once given?
Let these history-deniers make their cases in lecture halls and televised debates. Once the debate is stuffy and civilized, and no longer done with tweets and protests-with-chants, the Left will tune out.
Fanatics destroyed the 1400 year old Bamiyan Buddhas because those statues did not match the Taliban's desired version of history. Today's democrats don't just side with radical Islamic terrorists; they use them as role models. We are facing pure evil.
Let’s Get Rid of Mount Rushmore (Beyond their normal screed)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/3578316/posts
Vice needs to be Phoenixed.
Let’s just start shooting at each other instead,
I just blocked Viceland on my tv.
To hel- with these idiots who want to destroy our real history and bring in more illegal Mexicans, Muslims, and 3rd world types. What made America great was the white European work ethic and Christianity.
Trump was right again.
They're the American Taliban and yes, they are pure evil!
Disney getting called out — is that something “conservatives” can handle? Vacation and all....
The parent corps piss in your shoes, smack ya in the back of the head, but instead you bemoan the MSM minions... idiots.
Atheist Savonarolas rule the land.
Krauthammer called saving the statues “ethno-nationalism” last night. He’s off his wheelchair.
Wilbert Cooper
Then they need to stop accepting money, it has slave owners pictures on it. Burn it all then. And you can go hungry, get house/car repo-ed. and I won’t care.
LOCK AND LOAD!
I,for one, am happy to see the Left’s mask slipping.
Yes, Afghanistan used to be Buddhist.
It is said that Afghanistan cannot be defeated. The Russians failed, the US has not won despite being there for 15 years.
But the muslims did defeat the Afghans. Something to think about.
This is someone’s ART they are DESTROYING, at the very least. The Nazis and the Taliban were not even this bad.
It seems absolutely amazing to me now that Gavin McInnes actually founded Vice.
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