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re: Democrats Rescind Monument Protections in Virginia

Posted on 2/12/20 at 7:13 pm to
Posted by Big Scrub TX
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 2/12/20 at 7:13 pm to
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What makes NO sense is the idea that taking down a statue = “erasing history”. That’s absurd and hasn’t been true since the printing press. Can someone point out one example to the contrary?
Yes. It's nothing more than skyscreaming snowflakes unable to deal with reality.

Even so, I'm more in favor of leaving these monuments to traitors up...and then adding to them. Maybe put a plaque or other display in Lee's Circle next to the statue explaining how it was a tantrum of White Supremacism that led to the construction of the monument in the first place.

You can tell all of these monumentalists are actually full of shite, though. Because when any new monuments or other acts of memorialization (like the Whitney Plantation or putting H Tubs on some money) are nominated yet disagree with whatever worldview they have, the melt is nearly complete.
Posted by SCLibertarian
Conway, South Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
36447 posts
Posted on 2/12/20 at 7:25 pm to
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Yes. It's nothing more than skyscreaming snowflakes unable to deal with reality. 


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You can tell all of these monumentalists are actually full of shite, though.

You couldn't be more wrong. This isn't about just monument removal. It's about the authoritarian impulse of those who want to remove from display and consumption those things and people who don't meet their purity test, which is conceivably anyone and everyone in the past. To paraphrase Orwell, history itself stops and nothing exists, except an endless present where the party is always right. Make no mistake, the monument removal crowd and SJW's would blow up the Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument tomorrow if they could, because it isn't about removal, it's about disconnecting Americans from the philosophical underpinnings of the Republic.
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