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Old 07-19-2020, 10:42 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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This past week has had a lot of controversy concerning the statue of Christopher Columbus in Chicago. A few statues recently, especially in the southern states have been removed or vandilized. Should we keep the statue of "the discoverer of America"? Or take down this "racist murderer" monument for good?
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Old 07-20-2020, 05:33 AM
 
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All this against Columbus is hate against Italians.
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Old 07-20-2020, 05:44 AM
 
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This past week has had a lot of controversy concerning the statue of Christopher Columbus in Chicago. A few statues recently, especially in the southern states have been removed or vandilized. Should we keep the statue of "the discoverer of America"? Or take down this "racist murderer" monument for good?
Leave statues alone and make the scum that ruin them pay for the repairs
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Old 07-20-2020, 05:44 AM
 
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Another way to sum this up: Protest vs. Pro-destruction...

I will back up my Italian brothers in Chicago, on this one!

And of course: Back up the Chicago Police Department.

YOU ARE RESPECTED AND APPRECIATED!!!!
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Old 07-20-2020, 06:29 AM
 
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Another way to sum this up: Protest vs. Pro-destruction...

I will back up my Italian brothers in Chicago, on this one!

And of course: Back up the Chicago Police Department.

YOU ARE RESPECTED AND APPRECIATED!!!!
Agree with all of that!!
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Old 07-20-2020, 06:40 AM
 
Location: Chicago, Tri-Taylor
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Decide what to do with it through the democratic process. A group of thugs do not get to just tear it down. I think there was a disturbing number of people who don't really understand what's going to happen if you keep giving people like this their way.
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Old 07-20-2020, 06:52 AM
 
Location: broke leftist craphole Illizuela
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A violent leftist mob doesn't get to decide what statues and monuments are allowed to exist. I personally think those bronze legs in Grant Park are ugly but that doesn't give me the right to go there with a posse and some rope and start destroying them.
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Old 07-20-2020, 07:51 AM
 
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Defacing or destroying property only makes the movement appear ignorant and selfish.
Akin to a white supremacist tossing paint thinner on the nearest Malcom X statue, neither is acceptable nor productive.
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Old 07-20-2020, 07:55 AM
 
Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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And WHAT'S UP with all these defacings of statues of Jesus I've been reading about???

As far as I understand, Jesus did not own slaves. And he preached love.

Again, I think people are just enjoying being destructive. Misery LOVES company. It's like a cancer: you don't like how your neighborhood looks OR you just plain want to be a jag, so you go and deface some place that is kept up well.

Real classy, by the way: spray painting profanities for children to see. I'm sure in YOUR communities that is a norm!
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Old 07-20-2020, 10:28 AM
 
Location: broke leftist craphole Illizuela
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Here is the full video with police briefing showing this was not a protest but a well planned ambush on the police.

https://www.facebook.com/abc7chicago...85885646028872
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