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Jessi Gold MD MS
drjessigold
I hear this comparison a lot: Keeping up statues of slave owners reminds people of the history like keeping up history from the Holocaust.THIS IS NOT TRUE B/C: 1) We
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Matt Goodwin
GoodwinMJ
Woke-ism is a minority supportSupport for footballers "taking the knee"? 37%Support for removal of statues linked to slavery? 27%BLM protests shd have gone ahead during crisis? 21%Support protestors damaging/removing statues?
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Alex Usher
AlexUsherHESA
I have trouble getting worked up about statue destruction because, being literate and capable of reading history, I understand that "history" and "statues" are distinct concepts, and the loss of
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iris
TEDDVPlCKER
alex turner as statues because he's a living work of artโ a thread โ end of the thread a complete list of the statues:ยฌ ecstasy of saint
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James Kierstead
Kleisthenes2
เค In my last thread on statues I said I'd question the assumption that having a statue around (and not taking it down) means we're honouring the person represented (even
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ndnviewpoint
mahtowin1
Just after Trump finished speaking at Mount Rushmore today, the White House released an Executive Order on rebuilding monuments and creating more. There is so much to deconstruct here.https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executiv
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David Frum
davidfrum
Karen Hughes tells a story in her memoirs that down-ballot Republicans would do well to remember in 2020 ... 1/xhttps://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1279657317315772417 Walking on a bench on holiday, she saw a small
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CampbellX
I am in church and have so many thoughts. First of all, all the statues are of buff men with ripped arms and bods including Jesus Christ on the cross.
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HereToHandleYou
The Catholic Church is dead. May it rest in pieces. May it rest in pieces like the religious artifacts and statues that they are allowing to be torn down. May
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T. Greer
Scholars_Stage
This is Not the American Cultural Revolution https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/08/this-is-not-american-cultural-revolution.html In a new piece, I explain why the analogy many people are making between the BLM protests and the Maoist
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johnny๐ฐ
johnny11w
statues and monuments aren't history. history is history. people create statues and monuments as a reflection of how they want to remember the past, but that's an inherently romanticized exercise.the
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j ๐semi-ia
tenderhualian
hc isn't creepy for making 10,000 statues of xl bc it's a perfectly normal thing in chinese or buddhist culture to make thousands of states of deities. it's not creepy
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Ana Jaks
ana_jaks
For those of you who are upset - predominantly white people - about the removal of the statue in Bristol City Centre that replaces Colston for a hot minute, please
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YesThatShoe
the_shoe_yes
Can someone tell me the last time Conservatives weren't radicalized by something? The ACA. Obama. Michelle Obama. Obama bowing. Obama saying things. Michelle Obama saying things. Killary Clinton. Bill Clinton
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
AOC
Yep.At no point did I say Fr. Damien was a bad figure - in fact, I explicitly stated that my observations werenโt about litigating his or any individual statue.Itโs about
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Dave Steele
LucidSpin
A short, personal thread on monuments: I am in favor of removing public monuments of traitors, particularly when those monuments are specifically intended to glorify the figure's treachery. If they're
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