That sounds like some 4chan nonsense.
More like, they don't have statues of him because statues are used as a form of celebration. This whole idea of "Statues teach history!" is nonsensical, and a desperate reach to try to defend the statues.
Not nearly as funny as the constant strawman of "LEFT = COMMUNISM!".
It's just a regurgitated strawman that really has no substance to it when held up to scrutiny, yet it's an easy cop-out label so it still becomes the "go to" attack.
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https://www.newsweek.com/george-wash...s-flag-1512075
Has anyone already posted this??
I think people gave protesters that toppled statues too much credit. They simply hate america and its historic monuments
I was against the renaming of Stalingrad, even though I firmly belive Stalin is a shit stain on the memory of Lenin and Marx who's policy's were closer to facism than communism.
Making homosexuality illegal again in the USSR alone should make his memory worth spitting on. But then the list of his sins against both communism and humanity would need there own thread.
This is a great example of taking a quote out of context.
Have a littel think, if Marx was anti capitolism and wrote a pice about how slavery is the foundation of said capitolism. He's not saying those things out of reverence for the industry he hated, the colonies he want to see destroyed or the World trade he saw as fattening the cats at the expense of the mice.
I find it kind of funny, and a good lesson about why you don't let emotions dictate actions, tat the UK Protestor got egg on there face after they thought the sir Robert peel statues were of his farther, when in reality they were attacking statues of the guy who is litteraly responsible for why UK police don't have guns.
Always think befor acting people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_II_of_Denmark
As that guy involved with the bloodbath in Stockholm (1520)
Is George Washington suppose to be immune to criticism or something?
I mean, a bit of research shows you that he was also a slave owner, and despite slowly growing aware of how screwed up it was he still took little action against it, basically acting as if it was a necessary evil.
Mind you, that's after he treated slaves pretty awful himself before he started to change his views.
"El Psy Kongroo!" Hearthstone Moderator
First of all, it stands on private ground, second of all, it was not build and placed in Seattle. It was not dedicated by an public entity of Seattle or state oder federal government, or hell even private organisation in any form.
And secondly, it is on private ground, and privatly owned. Neither state, local or federal government have the authorety, to pass a bill, removing it.
None of the Confederate Monuments we discuss here stay on private ground or are privately owned.
To compare it to the monuments on public ground, often publicly owned is not remotely the same. It does not stand on a oublic plaza or government bulding. If you wish, to buy a removed confederate statue of Lee and place it in your garden, you are free to do so. Or of William II, George Washington, Stalin, Hitler, Leopold II, Churchill, Thomas Jefferson, Lettow-Vorbeck, Bismarck, Lenin... or whatever. Iraq probably has some Saddam Hussein statues if you wish to place on your garden.
Folly and fakery have always been with us... but it has never before been as dangerous as it is now, never in history have we been able to afford it less. - Isaac Asimov
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The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - Orwell
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George Washington has been elevated to divine status in the US for various reasons. Despite having been... kinda an ok to below average general and kinda shitty person. He did some great stuff for sure, but he's treated like a Saint when he was anything but.
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No, it's not that. Christmas is offensive to the Far-left as a whole because "Ewww, religion!!!". The Far-left being comprised mostly of extremist atheists as well as people who feel rejected by religion because their various preferences don't go hand in hand with religious dogmas. And since the companies are eager to virtue signal to the Far-left, the concept is being replaced with Festivus or whatever non-religious concept they came up with.
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