#Statues

unseen1

unseen1_unseen

I wonder if those tearing down the statues, rioting, burning, and looting know that once Hitler took power he killed off all his brownshirts first? I wonder if those tearing

Robert Hewitt Wolfe

writergeekrhw

If you want Confederate monuments to teach history, lie them on their sides and put statues of WT Sherman, US Grant, Robert Smalls, etc. on top of them kicking their

Uryus Worku

UryusW

No one really noticed that London was full of statues of white racists or that the names of their streets dripped with colonial blood. The idea that the Mayor is

David Menschel

davidminpdx

1. While I don’t advocate vandalism, I do wonder if it isn’t time to rethink all of our statues — not merely Confederate ones or slaveholders — and ask whether

AriesTornado

TornadoAries

My mother and I got into an argument about the statues being torn down and I couldn’t explain to her how wonderful it was. But then I asked her how

Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ

sankrant

The lost statues of Bamiyan.This was *not* an act of vandalism but a legal act on the order of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan, per Islamic law.(it quotes my tweet

David Nestor

david_nestor2

Ballarat is my hometown and a City I love despite some dark history with pedophiles. I do not condone vandalism of public or private property as was the case with

Aaron Astor

AstorAaron

It matters how statues come down as much as it does what the statues represent. If a statue is removed after lengthy community deliberation in formal proceeding, that is different

Saturday Down South

SDS

People/Things we should build statues for that ALL SEC fans can agree on (a thread)...1/4- Larry Culpepper - Verne Lunquist- Laura Rutledge- All live animal dog mascots tbh- SEC Football

Sheri Gray R.T.(R)

anteesheri

#1. The people, the statues, were NOT PERFECT. They were products of their time. The statues reminders of significant eras, where people made choices to move forward, away from accepted,

Johan S. McGuinne (Eòᵹ̇an)

guektiengieline

One of the reasons why I don't care about statues being torn down, or feel the need to support calls for replacing offensive statues with other statues once the offensive

Michael McAuliff

mmcauliff

Here’s the bust of Roger Taney that the House just voted 305-113 to remove, along with the statues of confederates. Taney was the Chief Justice who wrote the Dred Scott

David Frum

davidfrum

The trouble is that even GOP electeds are now locked into a Fox-created bubble of unreality. Outside that bubble, vandalism of statues looks like petty criminality, a minor local issue.

Barry Cynamon

BCynamon

The people crying about statues getting pulled down are really waking me up by forcing me to ponder whether they're right to be so concerned. I have concluded that they

Aaron Bady

zunguzungu

Be it resolved that, as hagiographic statues standing guard over public space is an architectural policing of affect derived from imperial Rome through the antiquity-fetishizing construction of an ahistorical whiteness,

Jen Turner

jen_e_turner

Finally sat down to watch #SecretsOfTheSaqqaraTomb and it’s really interesting! Brilliant to see so many well preserved statues in one tomb too - & for #statuesunday why not have a

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