Current Events > Confederate monument vandalized with words 'They were racists.'

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LightningAce11
06/17/19 10:35:15 PM
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https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/06/17/us/confederate-monument-red-paint-trnd/index.html

Thoughts?
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AlisLandale
06/17/19 10:38:38 PM
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At one point I would have been like is that really necessary?

But then learned that these arent historical monuments so fuck it. Tear em down or put them in a museum

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues-were-built-to-further-a-white-supremacist-future
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Samurontai
06/17/19 10:39:21 PM
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Antifar
06/17/19 10:39:27 PM
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When they're right, they're right
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The Admiral
06/17/19 10:42:29 PM
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Hope the vandals are caught and jailed.

You can dislike these statues all you want, and you can start petitions to pressure officials to remove them, but you cant engage in vigilante activities and law breaking just because of your feelings.
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RebelElite791
06/17/19 10:43:48 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Hope the vandals are caught and jailed.

You can dislike these statues all you want, and you can start petitions to pressure officials to remove them, but you cant engage in vigilante activities and law breaking just because of your feelings.

Wahhhhhh
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jumi
06/17/19 10:44:26 PM
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Womp womp.
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Phantom_Nook
06/17/19 10:45:22 PM
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Antifar posted...
When they're right, they're right

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Metua
06/17/19 10:47:24 PM
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YourDrunkFather
06/17/19 10:48:22 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Hope the vandals are caught and jailed.

You can dislike these statues all you want, and you can start petitions to pressure officials to remove them, but you cant engage in vigilante activities and law breaking just because of your feelings.


I feel like If you were black and saw literal statues erected for people who wanted to keep your people in bondage youd feel differently
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Delirious_Beard
06/17/19 10:49:30 PM
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YourDrunkFather posted...
The Admiral posted...
Hope the vandals are caught and jailed.

You can dislike these statues all you want, and you can start petitions to pressure officials to remove them, but you cant engage in vigilante activities and law breaking just because of your feelings.


I feel like If you were black and saw literal statues erected for people who wanted to keep your people in bondage youd feel differently


addy would be a ruckus type if he was black, let's be real
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Vyrulisse
06/17/19 10:52:19 PM
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Yeah I'm sure every one of those over 500 people that statue was for that fought were racists. People are fucking stupid.
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DarthAragorn
06/17/19 10:52:50 PM
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Vyrulisse posted...
Yeah I'm sure every one of those over 500 people that statue was for that fought were racists. People are fucking stupid.

They lived in the south therefore they were definitely racist pieces of shit obviously duh
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LightningAce11
06/17/19 10:53:22 PM
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Imagine if germany put up statues of hitler saying "we can't ignore history".
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Antifar
06/17/19 10:53:54 PM
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Vyrulisse posted...
Yeah I'm sure every one of those over 500 people that statue was for that fought were racists. People are fucking stupid.

They fought a war to uphold the institution of slavery on the basis of race
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RebelElite791
06/17/19 10:54:49 PM
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Vyrulisse posted...
Yeah I'm sure every one of those over 500 people that statue was for that fought were racists. People are fucking stupid.

Read a fucking history book lmao.
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MakoReizei
06/17/19 10:55:22 PM
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LightningAce11 posted...
Imagine if germany put up statues of hitler saying "we can't ignore history".


it's a memorial to the soldiers for fuck's sake. Not comparable.
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Vyrulisse
06/17/19 10:55:31 PM
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Antifar posted...
Vyrulisse posted...
Yeah I'm sure every one of those over 500 people that statue was for that fought were racists. People are fucking stupid.

They fought a war to uphold the institution of slavery on the basis of race

The Confederacy had Conscription.

@RebelElite791 posted...
Vyrulisse posted...
Yeah I'm sure every one of those over 500 people that statue was for that fought were racists. People are fucking stupid.

Read a fucking history book lmao.


You first. lmao.
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BewmHedshot
06/17/19 10:57:36 PM
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Vandalized, or accuratized?
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RebelElite791
06/17/19 10:58:30 PM
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MakoReizei posted...
LightningAce11 posted...
Imagine if germany put up statues of hitler saying "we can't ignore history".


it's a memorial to the soldiers for fuck's sake. Not comparable.

Germany doesnt have many monuments exclusively to the Wehrmacht, and the Clean Wehrmacht myth is similar to this clean Confederate myth
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DarthAragorn
06/17/19 10:58:54 PM
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BewmHedshot posted...
Vandalized, or accuratized?

Vandalized
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CADE FOSTER
06/17/19 10:59:48 PM
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Antifar posted...
When they're right, they're right

This why do we have statues to confederates the Union won we need statues of them everywhere not traitors
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06/17/19 11:00:22 PM
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Kastrada
06/17/19 11:05:45 PM
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The Admiral posted...
Hope the vandals are caught and jailed.

You can dislike these statues all you want, and you can start petitions to pressure officials to remove them, but you cant engage in vigilante activities and law breaking just because of your feelings.


The irony of saying this in defense of Confederates is hilarious.

And yes not every Confederate was racist (Houston was fairly progressive) while some Yankees were virulent racist assholes (Sherman). But again. Ironic argument.
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RickyTheBAWSE
06/17/19 11:07:09 PM
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catapults should be tested on racist monuments.
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spudger
06/17/19 11:11:07 PM
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sounds like an improvement on shit

since when do we revere seditionists and traitors?
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hockeybub89
06/17/19 11:13:22 PM
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Vyrulisse posted...
Yeah I'm sure every one of those over 500 people that statue was for that fought were racists. People are fucking stupid.

Let's erect a statue for the kamikazes then. They were just really dedicated to their country.
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CADE FOSTER
06/17/19 11:17:42 PM
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Confederates have no leg to stand on they were traitors and fought for slavery they should be shunned and statues destroyed
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Smashingpmkns
06/17/19 11:18:17 PM
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Dude isnt wrong lol
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PleaseClap
06/17/19 11:22:17 PM
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Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science.

- Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, 1861
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billcom6
06/17/19 11:22:44 PM
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muh heritage!!!!!
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Lord_Shadow
06/17/19 11:23:26 PM
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vandalized is a strong word for this
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averagejoel
06/17/19 11:23:51 PM
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DarthAragorn posted...
BewmHedshot posted...
Vandalized, or accuratized?

Vandalized

it's not an either/or scenario
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YellowSUV
06/17/19 11:24:06 PM
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Confederate monuments are a participation trophy.
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Tyranthraxus
06/17/19 11:25:34 PM
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How is it vandalism if it's true?
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spudger
06/17/19 11:26:12 PM
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YellowSUV posted...
Confederate monuments are a participation trophy.

well said
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Anteaterking
06/17/19 11:27:47 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
How is it vandalism if it's true?


Because whether something is true or not is tangential to whether it's damaging property?
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Tyranthraxus
06/17/19 11:30:04 PM
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Anteaterking posted...
Tyranthraxus posted...
How is it vandalism if it's true?


Because whether something is true or not is tangential to whether it's damaging property?

Oh? Property? Who owns it?
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Anteaterking
06/17/19 11:31:04 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Oh? Property? Who owns it?


Idk probably the city of Nashville, not to be confused with the residents of Nashville.
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Tyranthraxus
06/17/19 11:32:21 PM
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Anteaterking posted...
Tyranthraxus posted...
Oh? Property? Who owns it?


Idk probably the city of Nashville, not to be confused with the residents of Nashville.

If the city of Nashville owns it, then that means the people who tagged it paid taxes to maintain it.
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ProbablyaCat
06/17/19 11:34:46 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
Anteaterking posted...
Tyranthraxus posted...
Oh? Property? Who owns it?


Idk probably the city of Nashville, not to be confused with the residents of Nashville.

If the city of Nashville owns it, then that means the people who tagged it paid taxes to maintain it.


So if I pay taxes, I can deface anything the city owns? Sick
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Anteaterking
06/17/19 11:36:52 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
If the city of Nashville owns it, then that means the people who tagged it paid taxes to maintain it.


"Sir, I didn't break that window, for you see my taxes pay for fixing the windows that are broken"
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SmidgeIsntBack
06/17/19 11:41:09 PM
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YellowSUV posted...
Confederate monuments are a participation trophy.


Even participation trophies are handed out at the end of the contest, not after.
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DirkDiggles
06/17/19 11:42:21 PM
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MakoReizei posted...
LightningAce11 posted...
Imagine if germany put up statues of hitler saying "we can't ignore history".


it's a memorial to the soldiers for fuck's sake. Not comparable.


It's not really a memorial to the soldiers if they were erected during the Civil Rights Era just to troll black people.
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LRodC
06/17/19 11:46:07 PM
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Stunning and brave.
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Questionmarktarius
06/18/19 12:13:06 AM
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Is it too late to spraypaint "well, duh" underneath?
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SH_expert44
06/18/19 12:16:42 AM
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hopefully these vandals get caught and fined.
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Disengaged
06/18/19 12:19:30 AM
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Sounds like someone confused vandalizing with properly labeled.
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RickyTheBAWSE
06/18/19 2:37:14 AM
#49:


DirkDiggles posted...
MakoReizei posted...
LightningAce11 posted...
Imagine if germany put up statues of hitler saying "we can't ignore history".


it's a memorial to the soldiers for fuck's sake. Not comparable.


It's not really a memorial to the soldiers if they were erected during the Civil Rights Era just to troll black people.


not gonna stop him from repeating it later
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Blue_Dream87
06/18/19 2:47:28 AM
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Someone needs to pull a Bart Simpson with these statues.
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