#Statues

Some Confederates are worthy of commemoration. GA's Amos T. Akermanis one of them. A former slaveowner and Confederate colonel, he repudiated the old ways, and ended up becoming Grant's 2nd
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Why Trump may lose THREAD 1/ Trump won narrowly last time. One of the factors was Hillary was a very unappealing candidate. A lot of young passionate Democrats, many who
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Pourquoi y a-t-il si peu de monuments publics en France commémorant des figures anti-esclavagistes ou célébrant le rôle joué par les Français d'outre-mer dans l’histoire ? Est-ce que la République
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One of the saddest things about CRT, to someone that loves aesthetics like me, is the whole cultural appropriation argument. Cultural appropriation occurs when ppl take a part of another
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Great question #sschatreads! 1/ I like to tell my students about my own journey. I hated history in high school. My introduction to US history was in summer school, taught
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As Sunder rightly points out, the sample Kaufmann presents as representative of "liberal opinion" in his latest Quillette diatribe is nothing of the sort. The items he presents as demonstrating
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Remember kids, the most important left-wing thing to do is to support arson, property damage, the abolition of police, and sustained chaos in the streets that leads to a drastic
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As "anti-racism protesters" topple statues of Jefferson and Columbus for historical crimes, real and imagined, let's see if we can use the mob to cancel some genuinely bad people, beginning
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every human wants to believe they are the hero of their own little movie.this is doubly so of the narcissistic personality types attracted to politics.this is precisely when they feel
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All the people in TN should ask themselves this question.. how did they allow this "muthrachatti" Ramaswamy Naicker To become such a prominent icon compared to 1. T.S.Avinashilingam Chettiar -
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The statues debate seemed to have lost its momentum. - Oriel College are recommending moving Cecil Rhodes, the Telegraph reports.https://twitter.com/CamillaTominey/status/1273330482550276098 An Independent Commission on Inquiry will look in
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Me: *built a website to track statue topplings*Me: *wakes up, scrolls through twitter*Me: oh no Y'ALL Based on a community contribution, John A. MacDonald has been added to whentheycamedownhttps://whentheycamedown.com/post/john-a-mcdona
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How many of you even knew about Buddhas of Bamiyan?A very few. Reason is that the left media doesn’t like to highlight events where Muzlims are aggressors#ThreadThey were once the world’s
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The problem with White Supremacy is that throughout my life I've seen it mainly be assaulted and opposed on grounds that it's immoral.I think it needs to be mainly assaulted
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PUBLICATION DAY!We Need New Stories is out in paperback today and has had a reception I never dreamed of with extremely generous reviews in, among others, the FT, the Irish
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Another way to think about Brexit (this Brexit) is that it’s a grand experiment in conceptual time travel or perhaps even the creation of an alternative reality. It is a
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