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The Mouth

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2. It would be interesting to coorelate these removals
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 12:46 PM
Aug 2017

with election results in 2018.

My guess is that doing this is going to strengthen the extremes in both progressive and regressive locales.

I see why people want to do it; personally I'd just modify them to be holding a white flag of surrender, mockery is highly effective, but I wonder what electoral damage they will cause us in areas that are not so liberal as NY...

Good start dalton99a Aug 2017 #1
It would be interesting to coorelate these removals The Mouth Aug 2017 #2
Welcome to DU, The Mouth. calimary Aug 2017 #6
TO WHAT? The Mouth Aug 2017 #10
I'd prefer to read about Gen Lee in historical texts LanternWaste Aug 2017 #12
interesting take. The Mouth Aug 2017 #14
The mistake Blackjackdavey Aug 2017 #37
Well put The Mouth Aug 2017 #38
Those statues were erected to "show the black man his place," to remind whites of a "glorious" past Hekate Aug 2017 #7
Good points.... The Mouth Aug 2017 #11
Andrew Jackson did not go to war with our country to preserve slavery. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #28
Yeah, agree The Mouth Aug 2017 #32
Your concern is duly noted. nt SunSeeker Aug 2017 #33
Glad you don't care about 2018 The Mouth Aug 2017 #39
Oh but I do care. I think us not staking out a moral position will hurt us more in 2018. SunSeeker Aug 2017 #40
I intend to, thanks :-) The Mouth Aug 2017 #41
American Nazis, the KKK, and White Supremacists are billh58 Aug 2017 #43
Please show me where *I* did any such comparison. The Mouth Aug 2017 #44
Thank you very much billh58 Aug 2017 #49
Tactics Blackjackdavey Aug 2017 #53
Your last line: well spotted. Hekate Aug 2017 #46
It never ends. nt SunSeeker Aug 2017 #50
COLORADO petition to: Remove Sand Creek Massacres' Architect's Statue from State Capitol CrispyQ Aug 2017 #3
I don't see Pennsylvania listed Orrex Aug 2017 #4
there are Confederate memorials at Gettysburg, of course ... kwassa Aug 2017 #18
Yeah, but not "Let us revere these titans in perpetuity"-style monuments Orrex Aug 2017 #19
This one is a bit much. kwassa Aug 2017 #21
Oh, puke. Orrex Aug 2017 #22
Sexist too, from the Daughters of the Confederacy no less, barefoot & nipples. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2017 #23
I know, looks like guy on the left is attempting a pussy grab flibbitygiblets Aug 2017 #24
We have some in Galveston too, where Juneteenth began. nt Lisa0825 Aug 2017 #5
What do they do with them? question everything Aug 2017 #8
Nathan Bedford Forrest The Mouth Aug 2017 #16
There's also a state park named after him. Lars39 Aug 2017 #17
Yes. Many were erected long after the Civil War at the dawn of marybourg Aug 2017 #34
amazing, isn't it? The Mouth Aug 2017 #42
What better time than when black soldiers returned from fighting WWI in Europe on America's ... Hekate Aug 2017 #47
The Heather Heyer effect. ffr Aug 2017 #9
Keeping these statues because "HISTORY" is bull shit ciaobaby Aug 2017 #13
and interestingly (and I did not know this until recently) The Mouth Aug 2017 #15
To be honest Lithos Aug 2017 #27
Maryland, four down, two to go. kwassa Aug 2017 #20
I don't understand why Taney had a statue to begin with, or why he's considered "confederate" Calista241 Aug 2017 #25
"His sole claim to fame was authoring the horrendous Dred Scott decision." shanny Aug 2017 #29
Banality of Evil Lithos Aug 2017 #30
He was chief justice for a long time. Not confederate, but extremely racist. kwassa Aug 2017 #31
So Trump is pissed about this? yuiyoshida Aug 2017 #26
It's time for these memorials to erode away . . . MrModerate Aug 2017 #35
Last night my city commissioners voted to remove our memorial. Delmette2.0 Aug 2017 #36
I'm generally not a fan of DeminPennswoods Aug 2017 #45
WWI was a hundred years ago. African American soldiers were returning home and needed reminding... Hekate Aug 2017 #48
A bit off point, but you do know that Germans/German Americans DeminPennswoods Aug 2017 #51
Sure do. But at what point were Germans dragged here in chains and made hereditary slaves? Hekate Aug 2017 #54
This is an example of the hysteria is currently gripping everyone... DeminPennswoods Aug 2017 #52
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