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Dave Zirin
EdgeofSports
They took Kaepernick's protest against racist police violence and made it about the flag and the military. Now they're taking the largest protest movement in the history of this country,
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Only_Code_stan
Leader Otsutsuki¿? And statues Talking about this Otsutsuki Ok. What otsutsuki is this? because it doesn't have magatamas or kaguya's purple thing, its sleeves are longer and I don't know
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Hank Green
hankgreen
I've recently had a few people say something like this to me: "Someday, we might have to tear down statues of Martin Luther King Jr. because he did things that,
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Kevin Maimann
TheMaimann
What happens to monuments after they’re spraypainted, decapitated or tossed in lakes? After countless calls and emails over many weeks I boiled this down to 1,200ish words https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/epdj3z/controversial-confedera
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Adam Habib
AdHabb
1.I pondered hard about releasing this thread. It will be received hostilely by some of the more intolerant of our activists. Yet we cannot be intimidated from deliberating on issues
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Mikel Jollett
Mikel_Jollett
These are people who still won’t accept the results of the Civil War. Of course they won’t accept that their man baby king lost. White grievance is BUILT on the
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Arsalan Khan
akkhan81
Another defense of racist statues. An honest question: if people can't tear down racist statues because they perpetuate dangerous historical myths, what right does anyone have to demand changes in
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Frank Luntz
FrankLuntz
These words are inscribed on the wall at Auschwitz, where a memorial is maintained so we never forget.Leaving most monuments in place while stating the inhumanities associated with them is
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Will Truman
trumwill
And this concludes round nine of Giant Statues. On to Round Ten of "Giant Statues In Lieu of Engaging in Fruitless Arguments On Twitter.https://twitter.com/trumwill/status/1309642088351498241 Since people have asked, I'm going
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Louisa 🌈👭
LouisatheLast
Every time I see this statue I lose my mind. How? HOW???https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1385573100163584002 Marble statues are so beautiful especially in person. Like I know intellectually that the ancient Greeks and Romans
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Carey Newman - Hayalthkin'geme
blueravenart
Regarding monuments and naming...It is impossible to recontextualize a lie. Statues are illustrations that depict untruthful narratives, therefore taking them down isn't "changing history," it is being honest about how
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The Mountain Goats
mountain_goats
just a short sermon on a Sunday regarding idol worship so it seems that, in the absence of a good record to run on, the administration is going all-in on
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Jared Yates Sexton
JYSexton
Look at them giving the entire game away.The Confederate statues, the memorials to slaveholders, and now this bizarre paranoia about statues of Christ, who they’ve perverted into a symbol of
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Jonah Goldberg
JonahDispatch
Since @NAChristakis asked, a couple principles I have no problem defending on names/statues/institutions — in question form.1. Was the person retrograde on a clear moral principle at the time. Woodrow
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Shem Horne
Shem_Infinite
President Trump's Executive Order "Protecting American monuments, memorials, and statues and combating recent criminal violence" includes withholding federal funding from state and local governments that refuse to protect publ
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Merle Massie☆ ⛷🚜✒🇨🇦
merlemassie
I'm a historian. I follow a lot of historians on Twitter.I've yet to find a single historian angry about statues being torn down.(Book burning, though...or reducing funding to archives...that gets
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