First They Came for the Confederate Statues, Then they came for the...

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just bob said:
This will be a slipper slope.

Slippery slope happens.

You - When will there be a slippery slope.

You're funny.
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There hasn’t been a “slippery slope” lol people were talking about covering TJ statues on the first page of the thread
 
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Boston Vol said:
I figured it wouldn't be long before they went after UVA. Yesterday BLM protesters put a shroud over the Thomas Jefferson statue on campus and issued a list of demands. Here's a write up from the Daily Progress in Charlottesville:

The list calls for a balance of UVas historical landscape, and dubs the Jefferson statue an emblem of white supremacy that should be re-contextualized with a plaque to include that history.

It further demands that the university increase the enrollment of African American undergraduate students, increase the proportion of African American faculty and require all students to undergo some form of education on white supremacy, colonization and slavery as they directly relate to Thomas Jefferson, the university and the city of Charlottesville.

The same moderates who condemn the hate that came to Charlottesville one month ago fetishize the legacy of Jefferson, and imagine him as our collective moral compass, the primary speaker said. We cannot create a hierarchy within white supremacy.

We can and must condemn the violence of one month ago and simultaneously recognize Jefferson as a rapist, racist, and slave owner, she continued. The visibility of physical violence from white supremacists should not take our attention away from condemning and disrupting more respectable racists that continue to control the structures that perpetuate institutional racism.
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These people crazy!! Put ‘em all in jail along with the idiots who throw paint on oil paintings
 
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85SugarVol said:
Thomas Jefferson was a Confederate sympathizer. I knew it.
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5th post in the thread, and here we are 7 years later
Boston Vol said:
I figured it wouldn't be long before they went after UVA. Yesterday BLM protesters put a shroud over the Thomas Jefferson statue on campus and issued a list of demands. Here's a write up from the Daily Progress in Charlottesville:

The list calls for a balance of UVas historical landscape, and dubs the Jefferson statue an emblem of white supremacy that should be re-contextualized with a plaque to include that history.

It further demands that the university increase the enrollment of African American undergraduate students, increase the proportion of African American faculty and require all students to undergo some form of education on white supremacy, colonization and slavery as they directly relate to Thomas Jefferson, the university and the city of Charlottesville.

The same moderates who condemn the hate that came to Charlottesville one month ago fetishize the legacy of Jefferson, and imagine him as our collective moral compass, the primary speaker said. We cannot create a hierarchy within white supremacy.

We can and must condemn the violence of one month ago and simultaneously recognize Jefferson as a rapist, racist, and slave owner, she continued. The visibility of physical violence from white supremacists should not take our attention away from condemning and disrupting more respectable racists that continue to control the structures that perpetuate institutional racism.
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NashVol11 said:
I'm saying a slaveowner whose statue has been controversial that entire time is not "a slippery slope"
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The argument was that removing Confederate Statues wouldn’t lead to the removal of other Items/Statues that people found uncomfortable/controversial/offensive.

It clearly spread beyond Confederate Statues.
 
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85SugarVol said:
The argument was that removing Confederate Statues wouldn’t lead to the removal of other Items/Statues that people found uncomfortable/controversial/offensive.

It clearly spread beyond Confederate Statues.
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It had "spread beyond Confederate statues" to people like Columbus and Jefferson before this thread started, and now 7 years later the shining example of "slippery slope" is that same Thomas Jefferson. That fearmongering garbage was definitely worth it
 
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hog88 said:
Well we just need to tear down the Washington monument.
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I’d be willing to bet there are a lot of people who would like to, and think we should.

But then we need to tear down every single one in monument park. And yes, I mean every single one standing there today.

Dibs on the Lincoln Memorial.
 
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85SugarVol said:
I’d be willing to bet there are a lot of people who would like to, and think we should.

But then we need to tear down every single one in monument park. And yes, I mean every single one standing there today.

Dibs on the Lincoln Memorial.
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The Lincoln Memorial should have never been built.
 
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NashVol11 said:
It had "spread beyond Confederate statues" to people like Columbus and Jefferson before this thread started, and now 7 years later the shining example of "slippery slope" is that same Thomas Jefferson. That fearmongering garbage was definitely worth it
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Where were people removing statues of Thomas Jefferson at that time? It was confined to Confederates.

BLM whack-jobs playing reindeer games is not the same as New York City removing statues.

It spread.
 
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85SugarVol said:
Where were people removing statues of Thomas Jefferson at that time? It was confined to Confederates.

BLM whack-jobs playing reindeer games is not the same as New York City removing statues.

It spread.
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www.latimes.com

Thomas Jefferson statue incites debate at Mizzou

A public statue of Thomas Jefferson on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia has generated intense debate at the school -- and more recently, on social media -- over whether the founding father and third U.S. president deserves to be honored given his known status as a slave owner.
www.latimes.com www.latimes.com
 
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NashVol11 said:
www.latimes.com

Thomas Jefferson statue incites debate at Mizzou

A public statue of Thomas Jefferson on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia has generated intense debate at the school -- and more recently, on social media -- over whether the founding father and third U.S. president deserves to be honored given his known status as a slave owner.
www.latimes.com www.latimes.com
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So they didn’t remove it lol? 80 signatures?
 
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