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

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hog88 said:
A few years ago TN did away with the restrictions on firearms and booze in state parks yet the signs are still up saying both are banned. I asked a Ranger about that and he said just taking down the signs statewide was estimated to cost a little over a million dollars so the bill that was passed to allow booze and guns stipulated no money could be spent taking down the signs.

If just taking down those metal signs was 7 figures imagine what it would cost for new signage, redoing postal codes, letterhead, stationary, all of the parking stickers, and everything else that says Fort XYZ on a major Amy base.
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Yep thinking of everywhere they would have to remove the word Bragg from it would cost a ton of money.
 
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hog88 said:
They're not getting renamed.
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I’d make a bet, but it may take 20 years and we’d both forget. When this stuff starts getting debated to where the president is feeling the pressure, generally it’s only a matter of time.
 
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jaybird_1981 said:
Yep thinking of everywhere they would have to remove the word Bragg from it would cost a ton of money.
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Remove and replace. Think about all the maps and everything else that would need to be changed. Hundreds of millions of dollars.
 
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hog88 said:
A few years ago TN did away with the restrictions on firearms and booze in state parks yet the signs are still up saying both are banned. I asked a Ranger about that and he said just taking down the signs statewide was estimated to cost a little over a million dollars so the bill that was passed to allow booze and guns stipulated no money could be spent taking down the signs.

If just taking down those metal signs was 7 figures imagine what it would cost for new signage, redoing postal codes, letterhead, stationary, all of the parking stickers, and everything else that says Fort XYZ on a major Amy base.
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Damn, and all this time I thought I was breaking the law? On the other hand, if you stopped and read every sign in a state or national park you'd never get to enjoy one of them.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Must have sacrificed at least half an hour of TV time to work on this baby.

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Speaking of random capitalization. Who's writing this crap - a 5th grader?

On the issue itself, I'd say those serving in the bases should have a say in whether they should be renamed or not. Renaming them after various non-civil war heroes makes sense to me. Why not?
 
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VolStrom said:
Damn, and all this time I thought I was breaking the law? On the other hand, if you stopped and read every sign in a state or national park you'd never get to enjoy one of them.
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I was kinda disappointed, thought I was an outlaw.
 
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My post on this topic disappeared before I could post it. Just effing disappeared as I was finishing it.
 
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NashVol11 said:
Columbus can catch these hands too

Christopher Columbus statue beheaded in Boston
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Well I guess we should dynamite Mount Rushmore because of Washington & Jefferson.

Maybe destroy the liberty bell how about we burn down the Old State House & the Old North Church in Boston.

We definitely need to get rid of Independence Hall in Philadelphia where all those slave holders thought up the idea of this racist country and where that racist document the Declaration of Independence was written.

Isn't that right. Anything that an American might hold sacred is racist in these "woke" times.

Didn't Barry say "We are going to fundamentally transform this country!" He was right he started down the path to where it doesn't look like America anymore. It's now racist to have pride in being an American citizen and fly the flag!
 
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NashVol11 said:
I’m not sure anything in this post responds to an argument I’ve actually made, especially the blatant strawman idea that removing statues is supposed to singlehandedly “guarantee” the end of racism
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I blatently removed statues from the argument. Now what? Statues gone and what's the next move to bring equality and stop oppression? That is the goal right?
 
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hog88 said:
It would probably take a bill in congress to be passed and then signed by the president.

It would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to rename them.
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It wouldn’t cost that much and the Army is already preparing the presentation to Congress.
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