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In reply to the discussion: Biden Says We Should 'Protect' Columbus, Washington and Jefferson Statues [View all]Polybius
(15,476 posts)32. It won't be popular, but I agree with Biden 100%
I'm solidly in the Biden camp. If he had taken the opposite position, he would have seriously irked me. There are millions like me in the Democratic Party, glad we have someone as great as Biden to support in November.
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Biden Says We Should 'Protect' Columbus, Washington and Jefferson Statues [View all]
ForgoTheConsequence
Jul 2020
OP
If you want to sell out indigenous people for the chance at a few Trump supporters, maybe.
ForgoTheConsequence
Jul 2020
#2
Exactly. Focus on winning the WH and both houses of Congress. If that is accomplished, then
still_one
Jul 2020
#40
Your Argument Doesn't deserve a Rational Response Because You are Out on an Island of One
Stallion
Jul 2020
#78
Well find me a newer poll that shows different results & I'll change my view.
Drunken Irishman
Jul 2020
#27
Because that "process" has worked out so well in the past for Indigenous People.
ForgoTheConsequence
Jul 2020
#16
The good that Washington & Jefferson did outweighs the bad. Columbus? Not so much. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2020
#13
Why should Indigenous peoples put any faith in the white man's process?
ForgoTheConsequence
Jul 2020
#21
He didn't say we should stop agitating. He said that certain monuments should be protected.
Politicub
Jul 2020
#76
Biden would be wise to sit out "statue-gate" and let Agent Orange take all the heat
flibbitygiblets
Jul 2020
#39
totaly agree with Biden, the only shame we have are with Confederate monuments
beachbumbob
Jul 2020
#49
The confederate statues are there to celebrate people who believed in owning other people,
still_one
Jul 2020
#51
You know there will be non nude statues of a President Trump erected somewhere someday.
Marcuse
Jul 2020
#53
AGREED!!!! This is not to say that new places cant be found for them and/or other
Kashkakat v.2.0
Jul 2020
#74