Imagine comparing historical figures to a bunch of racist losers
Posted Jun 21, 2020, 4:07 PM UTC
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Destroying ancient statues dating back hundreds if not thousands of years back = Destroying statues put up in some cases less than a hundred years ago in order to intimidate black people. Yes I do use brain force why do you ask?
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You must be a big brain thinky genius
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My brain is the size of Saturn
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and as smooth as a babies bottom
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What if Buddhists owned slaves or were racist?
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Depends whether the statue is an ancient thing, or something put up by modern Buddhists to intimidate black people.
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notice how in the first picture, they're destroying properly displayed statues in what appears to be some sort of museum.
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So the statues being torn down couldn't be relocated to a museum where more context could be displayed about the historic figure?
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That's actually my point. History belongs in places where it can be properly cared for, studied, and taught. Not on some poor black kid's walk home from the store.
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They've had 60 years to move them to museums and they've refused every opportunity, you can't wait forever
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Do you think statues emit 5g waves that make passersbys racist?
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that’s a bit ridiculous don’t you think?
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Unironically you'll be surprised how many people don't know.
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I heard he was called StalinHitlermao, who ruled the entire world except Murica with his Nazicommunism and killed ten million quintillion white blonde Christian women
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Also, ISIS is a terrorist group. The latter is the will of the people.
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What polls?
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Read your own source bro:
There isn’t much recent polling on Confederate symbols, but the little we have since 2015 suggests that the American public — especially in the South — remains uneasy about removing these symbols.
A Fox News poll in 2017 showed that Americans opposed taking down Confederate monuments by 2 to 1, 61 percent to 29 percent. Marist College showed similar numbers, 62 percent to 27 percent.
A Quinnipiac University poll around the same time showed less opposition, but 50 percent of Americans still opposed taking down the monuments against 39 percent in favor. A HuffPost/YouGov poll was similar, showing people opposed removing statues 48 percent to 33 percent and opposed removing Confederate names from streets, schools and buildings 51 percent to 29 percent.
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Are you subscribed to the Washington Post?
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What polls are those? Was there a vote before these statues were put up? Was there a vote to keep each and every one of them there?
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Which polls? And when did they ask us?
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Racist losers and historical figures are not mutually exclusive. Your title is nonsensical.
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Nice try old man
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I'm 22. And nice try at what? I'm not against removing statues of old racist fucks. I am against nonsensical titles, though.
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You're account name is old man higgons 😑
Way to be quick on the uptake
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Yeah, I totally didn't get what you were referring to. Moron.
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I bet none of you had no idea what people these statues were of or what those people stood for. You immediately just pulled the racism card of “white bad, cause property damage”
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I’m sure the ancient Iraqis didn’t use slaves either and treated people very well
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While the racist losers were also historical figures, so was Hitler and you don't see statues of that guy anywhere. And for good reason! Take all the historical racist losers down!
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I’ll like and try to help you sir
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I would've much preferred they taken down the statues and put them in a museum like Russia did their Soviet-era statues, than people just destroy public property in a sort of chaotic mob rule.
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Why? They're just shitty revisionist history statues but up after the Civil War to enforce Jim Crow. There's nothing historical about them, except as a testament to racists being sore losers, exactly OP said.
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For the same reason the Soviet-era statues were preserved, it's apart of history, albeit recent century history, and in some cases non-Confederate statues are getting caught in the crossfire like some statues of Thomas Jefferson; which is why I used "chaotic mob rule".
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It's not a part of history.
Jefferson raped his underage slave who was probably his wife's half sister. If that's the history you want to hold up as an example, you should probably rethink your system of ethics.
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Jefferson was one of the founding fathers and had a key part in the Bill of Rights. He was one of the most prominent figures in American history during the Revolutionary War and the decades following that. Yes, he did bad and that's acknowledged but he wasn't some traitor to the Union.
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We've been telling them to put them in museums for years, and they never did.
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They weren't put into museums because "we" aren't everyone, "we" aren't the communities that actually have these statues in. At all of these rallies in the pass we see mobs that came from out-of-town to express their discontent at a statue they were not affected by and now we're seeing chaotic mobs tearing down public property. It has been happening in the recent years but people are just impatient and inconsiderate of the other side even when these local governments are siding with them.
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Ancient works of art versus shit some southerners built in the 60s
Ent history if it was made to honour the bad guys over 100 years later
You know though?
ummm... What about that George Washington statue, he is now racist too?
Yes, George Washington was extremely racist
You cannot compare the morals of our society to the morals of the 18th century society. What he did then was considered right, and normal. We now know it isn’t.
He rotated his slaves on a six-month basis to exploit a legal loophole and prevent them from being freed.
Yes, so we should stop celebrating it and just accept we've progressed
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As was every single human being in that time period
John Brown enters the chat
*nearly
In the same way that some today want to end capitalism despite it seeming far off, there were people back then who believed that all people are equal and should be treated as such.
It was just a very progressive position to take for the time. A notion worthy of ridicule.
It isnt thier fault though, they lived in a time where slavery was normal.
Ok, well so was Carl Marx. So is Netan-yah-woo. So was Mao. I could go on and on.. If your gonna expose racism then expose it in every countries leader/leaders. (and NO I am not a Trump supporter)
Yes I'm fine with that. I don't believe in revering individuals and I'm completely behind recognizing the failings of those who are.
yeah but george washington was one of the original founders, the confederates were just a bunch of butthurt rich people who were angry that lincoln was gonna “take away their slaves”
He didn't want to take away their slaves, all he cared for was the union.
yeah i know but that’s what the confederates thought would happen
Uh, yes