Richmond is taking down Confederate statues: Is this the end for other Confederate memorials?

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Farage Brands Black Lives Matter ‘New Taliban’ After Statue Torn Down

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has compared the New Iconoclasm of Black Lives Matter to the Taliban after the far-left group tore down the statue of a local historic figure who owned slaves.

On Sunday, Black Lives Matters activists tore down a statue in Bristol of seventeenth-century parliamentarian and philanthropist Edward Colston over his ties to slavery.

The mob ripped down the Victorian statue from its plinth, sprayed red paint over it, rolled it through the streets, before pushing it into the harbour, while police looked on.

Later, a Bristol police superintendent said that to leave the rioters to destroy the statue was a “tactical decision” because to intervene and prevent the crime may have caused “further disorder”. He added they did not want any “tension”, claiming that “the right thing to do was just to allow it to happen”.

In response, Nigel Farage said on Sunday: “A new form of the Taliban was born in the UK today. Unless we get moral leadership quickly, our cities won’t be worth living in.”
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When the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 1996, it imposed a strict, Islamic fundamentalist culture across the country, including wiping out any traces of pre-Islamic history including the destruction of the world’s tallest-standing Buddhas. Islamic State likewise in their imposition of sharia law smashed statues in Palmyra, Syria — a site of global historical importance — in 2015 and 2017.

Senior Eurocrat and former Prime Minister of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt celebrated the removal of the statue, saying it was the duty of Europeans to look at their history and atone for their collective sins.

In his time, Colston was regarded for his “example of Christian liberality”, using his wealth to found schools, hospitals, and almshouses for the poor. The historic figure is today discussed near-exclusively in reference to the fact that he made money out of the slave trade.


As the country marked the 76th anniversary of D-Day — the beach landings that marked the beginning of the assault to free Europe from the Nazis — on Saturday, Black Lives Matter protesters vandalised the Cenotaph war memorial on Whitehall in London. On Sunday, an activist tried to burn the flags adorning the monument.​

BLM vandals also attacked the statue of wartime prime minister Winston Churchill — who fought Nazis and Fascists — in Parliament Square on the D-Day anniversary and a second time on Sunday, scrawling “racist” across his plinth.​

 
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Why if I told you there has been a large movement of Army officers and Senior NCOs who have for a while beloved it pass time to rename the bases named after Confederates and it looks like the George Floyd murder has given them the opening they were looking for to push the issue.
 
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carlos86 said:
Why if I told you there has been a large movement of Army officers and Senior NCOs who have for a while beloved it pass time to rename the bases named after Confederates and it looks like the George Floyd murder has given them the opening they were looking for to push the issue.
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I would think they should have better things to do and more to worry about.
 
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carlos86 said:
Why if I told you there has been a large movement of Army officers and Senior NCOs who have for a while beloved it pass time to rename the bases named after Confederates and it looks like the George Floyd murder has given them the opening they were looking for to push the issue.
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They should focus on training their soldiers.
 
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carlos86 said:
Why if I told you there has been a large movement of Army officers and Senior NCOs who have for a while beloved it pass time to rename the bases named after Confederates and it looks like the George Floyd murder has given them the opening they were looking for to push the issue.
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I would like to offer the following suggestions for renaming bases:
Fort Insolvent
Fort Bankrupt
Fort Penniless
Fort Impoverished
Fort Penurious
Fort Destitute
Fort Impecunious
Fort Indigent
Fort Borrowed
Fort Printer Go Brrr
Fort Debt
Fort Deficit
Fort Deficiency
Fort Indebtedness
Fort Arrears.
 
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McDad said:
I would like to offer the following suggestions for renaming bases:
Fort Insolvent
Fort Bankrupt
Fort Penniless
Fort Impoverished
Fort Penurious
Fort Destitute
Fort Impecunious
Fort Indigent
Fort Borrowed
Fort Printer Go Brrr
Fort Debt
Fort Deficit
Fort Deficiency
Fort Indebtedness
Fort Arrears.
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Naval Station Arrears seems more appropriate.
 
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McDad said:
All are suitable for any branch.

Example: Insolvent Air Force Base has a nice ring to it.
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Eventually we'll run out of synonyms for broke, so we'll have to get creative. Something like Marine Corps Base We'll Do Anything for $20.
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
Someone explain how removing a statue is “erasing history”. Do words in the plethora books and documentaries magically change because a statue was taken down?
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It’s only erasing history to those who happen to be okay with that period of time in this country. It’s the thinly veiled racist schtick some have on here.
 
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McDad said:
I would like to offer the following suggestions for renaming bases:
Fort Insolvent
Fort Bankrupt
Fort Penniless
Fort Impoverished
Fort Penurious
Fort Destitute
Fort Impecunious
Fort Indigent
Fort Borrowed
Fort Printer Go Brrr
Fort Debt
Fort Deficit
Fort Deficiency
Fort Indebtedness
Fort Arrears.
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Why not get private corporations to sponsor the bases like sports arenas? Generate a little revenue.

Fort Chick Fil A
Fort Papa Johns
Fort Walmart
Fort State Farm
Fort Phizer
Fort Boeing
 
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burntorangeVOLffle said:
Why not get private corporations to sponsor the bases like sports arenas? Generate a little revenue.

Fort Chick Fil A
Fort Papa Johns
Fort Walmart
Fort State Farm
Fort Phizer
Fort Boeing
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You sir, are brilliant!

Run for president!
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
Lol, not laughing at you just laughing at how everyone outside of Virginia is talking/ reporting on this and no one in Virginia gives a sh!t. Like literally you can go to any town in Virginia and find Civil War History, not sure why we need big a$$ monuments that are nothing more than rotting eye sores.
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That's like your opinion!
 
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Volsfaninva917 said:
Lol, not laughing at you just laughing at how everyone outside of Virginia is talking/ reporting on this and no one in Virginia gives a sh!t. Like literally you can go to any town in Virginia and find Civil War History, not sure why we need big a$$ monuments that are nothing more than rotting eye sores.
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replace with a George Floyd statue ?
 
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