Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 14:46     Subject: Re:Christopher Columbus statues
Quite remarkable that people are so keen on removing statues of people who lived centuries ago......

Yet, there are statues of the Democratic Senator who was a member of the KKK in both W VA and Richmond, VA. And, numerous places, streets, buildings, and rooms names for him......

No effort to make any changes to these, it seems.



https://www.foxnews.com/politics/amid-outcry-over-confederate-monuments-little-outrage-over-robert-byrds-namesakes-scattered-across-home-state
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 12:49     Subject: Christopher Columbus statues
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I will celebrate exploring a new frontier and discovering new places. That was a big endeavor back then and an amazing risk that the finders, sailors, countries took for economic trade route exploration.

What were other societies doing that that point in time?

Frankly I don’t think any protestor could even survive on a tall ship for more than a week before they’d perish from lack of survival skills or work ethic. Much easier to just sit around and shout.


Let’s stick them on the Oregon Trail too, with a covered wagon and five objects from the 1800s of their choosing.

I’ll give them 5 days.


You're generous.

I'd give them five hours.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 12:47     Subject: Christopher Columbus statues
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are there any white men left that are allowed to have statues?
Serious question.


No, this isn't a serious question.


Why, because you don't like it?
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 12:40     Subject: Christopher Columbus statues
Public statues must only be of those who were pure of heart.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 12:32     Subject: Christopher Columbus statues
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The standard is tough talking liberals that have never sacrificed anything anywhere, but are good at pulling down statues and not realizing that sometimes history is best remembered. That is the standard. Get with the program. Most of these people are white, and are acting out to pretend they actually care, but when it matters, like helping people, they have done nothing.


We can remember the reason these statues were put up. That's the history you seem to have forgotten.


This.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 12:30     Subject: Christopher Columbus statues
Anonymous wrote:The standard is tough talking liberals that have never sacrificed anything anywhere, but are good at pulling down statues and not realizing that sometimes history is best remembered. That is the standard. Get with the program. Most of these people are white, and are acting out to pretend they actually care, but when it matters, like helping people, they have done nothing.


We can remember the reason these statues were put up. That's the history you seem to have forgotten.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 12:25     Subject: Re:Christopher Columbus statues
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why does Christopher Columbus deserve a statue? What did he do that embodies U.S. values?


He had no idea what he was doing or how to do it. He tried anyway.


And that is a good reason to have like one statue for him. Not 5000.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 12:16     Subject: Re:Christopher Columbus statues
Anonymous wrote:Why does Christopher Columbus deserve a statue? What did he do that embodies U.S. values?


He had no idea what he was doing or how to do it. He tried anyway.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 12:05     Subject: Christopher Columbus statues
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I can’t wait for the FDR Memorial to be attacked. I’ll be there, crowbar in hand when that time comes.


You're mad at FDR because he beat the Nazis?



Funny how liberals and Democrats ignore a Democrat like FDR was one of the most racist Presidents of all time. FDR refused to host gold medal Olympian Jessie Owens. FDR also cut out black people from many of the New Deal benefits. FDR put Japanese Americans in concentration camps. Under FDR's New Dealinitiatives coding Black neighborhoods as unsuitable for the new mortgages was an accepted practice. Quit with the double standards liberals. You're defacing Winston Churchill in the UK because he was a flawed character, do the same for FDR.

You seem a little wound up about this subject.

Is it that he was so successful despite being a flawed person when your loser president is just flawed?


I don't see any statues to Trump at this time. And the question isn't what about Trump.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 12:03     Subject: Re:Christopher Columbus statues
Anonymous wrote:Speaking of statues, did you see this story? Vandalism of Philadelphia Abolitionist Statue, Matthias Baldwin
https://news.yahoo.com/park-volunteer-outraged-over-vandalism-162539906.html

Mush for brains millenials.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 11:54     Subject: Christopher Columbus statues
Anonymous wrote:Are there any white men left that are allowed to have statues?
Serious question.


No, this isn't a serious question.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 11:52     Subject: Christopher Columbus statues
Are there any white men left that are allowed to have statues?
Serious question.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 11:52     Subject: Christopher Columbus statues
Welcome to the slippery slope. I'm sure in my lifetime I'll hear calls to remove the Washington and Jefferson Memorials.

Can we just honor the achievements of our forebears and not judge them with contemporary values? Apparently that's impossible for some activists.

All this stuff makes me sick to my stomach because I think it will help make Trump 2020 happen.
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 11:39     Subject: Re:Christopher Columbus statues
Anonymous wrote:Statues: who needs ‘em anyway...


Pigeons?
Anonymous
Post 06/12/2020 11:33     Subject: Re:Christopher Columbus statues
Columbus was a POS who decimated native tribes and sold sex slaves as young as nine. We should stop venerating him.
He was so brutal that even members of his team were repelled by him.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/columbus-sex-slaves/?utm_source=agorapulse&utm_campaign=tr&fbclid=IwAR1O4T6YHnKZh7UO6rXn2QXCEJjgwnNdi5GqDCWiv97FDKSqaX0PKZxLH30