Vandals Damage Statue Of Christopher Columbus In Yonkers Amid Growing Controversy

WCBS ^ | August 29, 2017 | Staff

[Trump20162020]

As New York City considers the future of the monument at Columbus Circle, others are taking more direct aims at tributes to the controversial Italian explorer.

For the fourth time in ten days, a statue of Christopher Columbus has been vandalized. This time, it happened in Yonkers.

[Red Badger]

Don’t piss off the NY Italians!.........................

[Ray76]

There is nothing controversial about Columbus. There are only goons misled by Frankfurt School indoctrination programs we have allowed to take over our schools. Tear it down. Tear it all down. That’s all they have.

[rockrr]

Personally I think it’s time for an attitude change. Start by destroying the MLK statue in DC - you damage one of ours, we destroy one of yours. You hurt one of us, we kill one of you.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Move the statue to Bensonhurst Brooklyn, then try and deface or destroy it. See what happens to ya.

[Trump20162020]

Not MLK. Nor statues that Leftists don't really care about (Lenin, Che Guevara).

Go after their historical heroes:

Margaret Sanger (racist, eugenics-espousing Planned Parenthood founder)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Japanese internment)
Harvey Milk (what did he even do?)

If the Left wants to hold people such as Christopher Columbus, Robert E. Lee, Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson to today's standards, then it's time to hold their icons to 2017 standards.

[ETL]

"As New York City considers the future of the monument at Columbus Circle"

Next they'd want to rename the Circle, "Indigenous Peoples' Circle", or "Native Americans' Circle". The City was, afterall once owned by Indians. They may even demand that we give them back their 24 bucks! (I'm about 1/16th (Cherokee) Indian myself, and half Italian)

[I want the USA back]

That’s it. Columbus Day is going to get trashed. The libs have been wanting to eliminate it for a long time. What happened in Charlottesville is just an excuse. I hate liberals.

[Trump20162020]

Next they'd want to rename the Circle, "Indigenous Peoples' Circle", or "Native Americans' Circle".

It's funny because one of the popular lines among the Left when it came to Confederate monuments was "losers don't get statues."

So what's with the Native Americans ones they love?

[EEGator]

“Harvey Milk (what did he even do?)”

He blew guys then got shot.

[dfwgator]

He also was a big supporter of Jim Jones and The Peoples’ Temple.

[ETL]

One of these protest groups, “Refuse Fascism—Drive Out The Trump/Pence Regime”, had nothing buy praise for a statue of mass murderer Mao Tse-tung outside an Asia Society exhibit on Mao and his Revolution back in 2008.

Full story, plus a LOT more on who these protests group are, on this thread that I recently posted.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3580234/posts

[sparklite2]

Since “Master” is associated with slavery...

The American Collegiate Association has announced
that beginning in 2019, the present day accreditation
“Masters Degree” will be known as Bachelor Number Two.

[WatchungEagle]

Some Chinese people may look at you funny, that’s about it.

No Americans live there anymore.

[nopardons]

Sadly, Columbus Day parades and Columbus, has been protested and trashed for a few decades now, by the fringe of the fringe stupids; a group that has steadily grown. :-(

Part of the problem is two fold: the culture of "VICTIMHOOD" has grown and the debasement and dumbing down of teaching history on all levels has reached a nadir, so low, that almost nobody, in the that three generations, knows ANY factual history of any kind.

[samtheman]

They may even demand that we give them back their 24 bucks!

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At 1% a year interest, we owe them about $1500.

At 3% a year interest, we owe them about half a million dollars.

[ETL]

At 3% a year interest, we owe them about half a million dollars.

Wow! Really?

Makes me consider a scheme in an old episode of the Twilight Zone where thieves steal a shipment of gold, then place themselves in a state of suspended animation for 100 years. In this case, I would put a few thousand dollars in a compound interest account, and hope to hell that the financial institution is still around when I revive myself 100 or 200 years later. :)

Seriously, even if that were ever possible, what an insane risk it would be to trust that the world in 100 or 200 years would be somewhere you wanted to live in. Who knows what can happen in all that time.

[ETL]

...in the case of that Twilight Zone episode, if you had never seen it or cannot recall, it turns out that the gold they had stashed away for 100 years was worthless, as it was something that was commonly manufactured in that future time. So it was all for nothing.

Episode was called The Rip Van Winkle Caper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rip_Van_Winkle_Caper

Watch on YouTube: The Rip Van Winkle Caper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iENmX1jJwg

[Secret Agent Man]

The only time they will call for this stupid sh1t to end is whne statues and monuments THEY LIKE are damaged.

[taildragger]

These pukes wouldn't have tried this crap if more WWII Vets of Italian American decent were still alive from NY City. IMMIC, something like 70% of the soldiers that did the slogging through Italy and other campaigns on foot were these MEN from NY of which I referenced.

I don't think they would have taken this crap sitting down.