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Old 12-29-2020, 06:31 PM
 
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Except that ISIS was doing despite public.. destroying the timeless pieces for eternity. I doubt ISIS had the permission nor support of the locales to destroy those antiquities. In this case the locals of the city/towns are deciding to remove them... not destroying them. Are you against public making such decisions for their own community? No one is building a new caliphate over these towns/cities.... nor making them more Marxist... it is as simply as the community no longer finds them relevant nor reflect the communities' views.

I mentioned this before... if that were the case, my area would still have street names after Nazi figures.... I'm certainly happy those communities decided to change them. They could have kept the street names and even the youth/adult camps if they wish but I doubt it would have reflected well on their communities.
You are naive as to what is really going on and what the actual end game is.

This is exactly how it starts. I visited Cambodia last year. You think Pol Pot woke up one day and started killing people? It took him decades to groom his message.

Where ISIS went wrong is that they got impatient. They should’ve bided their time and gotten stronger, just like every other successful insurgency, instead of trying to take over right now.

The marxists in the US know they aren’t strong enough to take over right now. They will spend the next couple of decades grooming people like you. Today, you accept Lincoln being delegitimized. Who cares about Lincoln anyway, right? But what will you accept tomorrow? What will you accept in a decade?

You are a sheep being led by a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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Old 12-29-2020, 06:33 PM
 
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Seems to me, most people, regardless of their politics, don’t care about statues.

This particular statue shows Lincoln with the Emancipation proclamation in hand while a black slave grovels at his feet.

It’s weird.
Said a liberal.
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Old 12-29-2020, 06:36 PM
 
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you're wrong. Statues are history. Most people care about history. Don't like it? Don't look at it.
+1.
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Old 12-29-2020, 06:37 PM
 
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We should take down all statues of Martin Luther King and rename all of the streets named after the dude. Let's do that. Fair is fair, right lefties?
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Old 12-29-2020, 06:38 PM
 
Location: New York Area
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Yes take it down .Lincoln' The Great Emancipator ' ,never saved the Union and Slavery never existed. Remove all evidence of the past .The past is old news. .Progressiveness will free you.
In other news, University of Michigan's IT department suggests terms like ‘picnic’ and ‘brown bag’ are offensive (link), since the "task force deemed "picnic" offensive might originate with claims on social media that the word has its origins in the lynching of African Americans." Frankly, I think that Abraham Lincoln statues and brown bag lunches have less to do with underclass status than fatherless homes and teenage pregnancy.
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Old 12-29-2020, 06:56 PM
 
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Statue of Uncle Joe going up in its place? MLK was a Marxist, maybe one of those people get a statue?
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Old 12-29-2020, 06:59 PM
 
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On my list of things to worry about this is number 14,311,012.

On July 9, 1776 the citizens of Boston said screw history and tore down a statue of King George.

History evolves.

Colonial Americans showed they were no longer bowing to King George and today black Americans no longer must bow to the white man no matter how much that pisses some of you off.
Especially a white man who was instrumental in freeing them, and don’t forget the thousands who died on the union side that set them free. Oh how offensive
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Old 12-29-2020, 07:05 PM
 
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You’re comparing Lincoln, widely regarded as our finest president, to Jew-killing Nazis? Oye vey!
Amazing isn’t it! Lincoln who sent a army to free slaves, is now offensive
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Old 12-29-2020, 07:13 PM
 
Location: North Pacific
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12 Years a Slave is a biography of a free black man who was kidnapped and enslaved in the South for 12 years.

Think of it as human trafficking. The bio and movie show how humans were traded as livestock and subject to extreme physical brutality.

Freeing slaves in no way granted former slaves or their dependents civil rights in the US.

I appreciate why some people are offended.

Imagine erecting statues in honor of those who engage in human trafficking for profit, today.
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Freeing slaves in no way granted former slaves or their dependents civil rights in the US.
True --- and the rights of free individuals continued to be hammered out ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1866: History and Impact

"The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was the first law enacted by the United States Congress clearly defining U.S. citizenship and affirming that all citizens are equally protected by the law. The Act represented the first step, albeit an incomplete one, towards civil and social equality for Black Americans during the Reconstruction Period that followed the Civil War. "


Civil Rights Act of 1875

"All lawsuits arising under the Civil Rights Act were to be tried in federal courts, rather than at the state level, though the act was seldom enforced. While few observers expected the legislation to change the prevailing racial attitudes held by both Northern and Southern whites, the law aimed to protect African Americans from deprivation of the minimal rights of citizenship."
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Old 12-29-2020, 07:13 PM
 
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Especially a white man who was instrumental in freeing them, and don’t forget the thousands who died on the union side that set them free. Oh how offensive
Regular black folks who support BLM don’t even realize who is actually propping up that organization.

A hint: it certainly isn’t black people. BLM is just a tool for white marxists to grab more power.

So when a black person cancels a Lincoln statue in the name of not “bowing down to white people” they need to realize that they are actually bowing down to white people (marxists) who want to be their future masters.

But they will never hear that message from the MSM and big tech, because they are the propaganda wing of those same marxists.
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