Posted on 08/18/2017 2:02:30 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Corporate-owned Vice Magazine posted an article urging Lets Blow Up Mount Rushmore which called for Americans politics, culture, and history to be purified by political fire.
Lets 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 Murdochs 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 weve 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, were never going to be able to see them for all of their good and all of their evil.
The articles headline was later changed to Lets 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 nations 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 ...
“I, for one, am happy to see the Lefts mask slipping.”
I hope older Democrats see it, too, and that it affects their loyalties.
Cooper argues that the nations historical markers and monuments help preserve a political system of racial exploitation and inequality, and should be erased to help build a new society.
Bee Ess of the first order. I shudder to think what that “new society” will be engaged in.
Purification is such a demanding series of rituals...
Something about not having omelettes until you break a few eggs.
Iconoclasts are the bane of history and the means by which accumulated wisdom may be swept away and supplanted with fake “new thinking”.There is no “new thinking”, there is only old and previously discarded ideas recycled yet one more time, because people no longer study history.
“As long as we allow those men to be cults of personality who exist beyond reproach, were never going to be able to see them for all of their good and all of their evil.”
Alright let’s start with Mohammed the ‘prophet’. Let’s go sucker. Why stop with the founders. You take the first shot. As long as your skinny @ss can take a few fatwas I’d love to see your pristine judgment in action.
The artist who carved Mt Rushmore, Gutzum Borglum, was a member of the Klan and was one of the artists who helped created Stone Mountain in Georgia. However, South Dakota historian Doane Robinson wanted Borglum to create colossal statues of heros of the west in the Black Hills. It was Borglum’s idea that the statues should be of American presidents who shaped the building of the nation. Interesting that Borglum included Lincoln in the pantheon... a president hated by the Klan
Purification by man is BS.
Kookiness
Lets take with us the righteous ideas and beliefs and leave everything else on the pyre, Yeah,& who decides what that is?
Just think they call President Trump the radical Nazi!
President Trump went from being a Russian KGB guy to now a Nazi. This in a period of 10 days in the Fake Stream News.
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