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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 2, 2021, 9:20 pm
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Another!
HTML https://oklahoman.com/article/5681122/occc-removes-land-run-monument
[quote]“It was a no-brainer,” Rose said in a statement. “If our
goal is to create a community that is inclusive and welcoming to
everyone, a monument that depicts cruelty and oppression can’t
be on display here.”
...
“We have always agreed with those who felt the monument was
offensive and had no place on our campus,” said OCCC interim
President Jeremy Thomas in a statement. “It does not accurately
represent history, and it does not accurately reflect the
respect, empathy and admiration we have for the true pioneers of
this land: the indigenous people of this country. As soon as we
were in a position to take it down, we did.”[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 10, 2021, 11:24 pm
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And on we go:
HTML https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/07/us/georgia-confederate-statues-moved/index.html
[quote]2 Confederate statues were removed in Georgia within 3
days[/quote]
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HTML https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/02/10/londons-khan-unveils-star-studded-blm-inspired-commission-to-target-statues/
[quote]Leftist Mayor of London Sadiq Khan unveiled a Black Lives
Matter inspired ‘diversity’ commission on Tuesday, which will
review all historical monuments in the British capital.
...
Mr Khan’s fifteen-member commission includes Pakistani-British
Star Wars actor Riz Ahmed, who has previously suggested that a
lack of diversity on television and in film could lead teenagers
to join ISIS.
The commission also includes social rights activist Toyin
Agbetu, who gained national attention in 2007 after he
confronted the Queen and then-Prime Minister Tony Blair at an
event celebrating the end of slavery, a practice the United
Kingdom with its Royal Navy had worked to stamp out.
Busting into Westminster Abbey, Agbetu shouted: “You should be
ashamed. We should not be here. This is an insult to us,”
adding: “You, the Queen, should be ashamed!”[/quote]
What, you think an undead being like Windsor is even capable of
feeling sincere remorse?
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 13, 2021, 9:55 pm
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More victories:
HTML https://richmond.com/news/presbyterian-seminary-demolishes-historic-richmond-home-of-confederate-surgeon-i-am-not-sorry-hunter-mcguires/article_c71fcbe4-8200-550e-bd32-34c55c70bb82.html
[quote]Inspired by the removal of Confederate statuary on
Monument Avenue last summer, Union Presbyterian Seminary last
month demolished the historic country home of a Confederate
surgeon who served under Stonewall Jackson.
...
McGuire was a Confederate doctor, teacher and former president
of the American Medical Association who held deeply racist
views. He opposed voting rights for African Americans and any
mention of slavery as a cause of the Civil War in school
textbooks. The Veterans Affairs medical center in South Richmond
is named after him.
...
McGuire’s legacy of racism and that of the Medical College of
Virginia, which used the stolen remains of Black people for
studies and experimentation a century ago, cannot be neglected.
“Even a rare old architectural specimen whose core structure may
date to the [late] 1700s is not sacrosanct in the face of
reckoning that the memories of eugenicists and white
supremacists like Dr. Hunter McGuire must now face,” she said.
“He hated Black people and believed their highest and best
usefulness was in submission and servitude to the white race. He
and his peers worked very hard to ensure Black people’s lives
were as constrained as possible.
“I am not sorry Hunter McGuire’s old house is gone.”[/quote]
HTML https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-leaders-agree-thomas-fallon-statue-must-be-removed/
[quote]After residents demanded for decades the Thomas Fallon
statue, seen as a symbol of oppression by many, be taken from
its lofty perch in the center of downtown San Jose, a key panel
agreed.
The Rules and Open Government Committee of the San Jose City
Council, which sets future City Council agendas, voted
unanimously Wednesday to remove the statue.
Following a passionate community meeting last month, Mayor Sam
Liccardo said he realized the depth of the pain this public art
created for residents. Days later, Liccardo called for the
statue’s removal. In a memo to the City Council, the mayor said
the statue symbolized the white conquest of Mexican and
indigenous communities.[/quote]
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Re: Western Civilization is UGLY
By: rp Date: February 19, 2021, 9:53 pm
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Truly a spectacle to behold:
HTML https://youtu.be/JDu8yDWElC8
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 19, 2021, 10:13 pm
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The same must happen to every Trump building.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 9, 2021, 11:39 pm
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Another one:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/tennessee-remove-monument-kkk-leader-015757207.html
[quote]The Tennessee Historical Commission on Tuesday voted 25-1
in favor of removing the bust of Ku Klux Klan leader and
Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state Capitol,
per the Tennessean.
Why it matters: "This is the first time the state has
contemplated the removal of a monument or statue in the capitol
under the Tennessee Heritage Protection Act," the state's Lt.
Gov. Randy McNally said in a statement sharing his concerns over
the precedent, per News Channel 3.[/quote]
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: rp Date: March 13, 2021, 4:17 am
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"undead being like Windsor"
I genuinely believe people like her have access to experimental
life extension technology.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 16, 2021, 10:36 pm
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HTML https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2021-03-09/san-diego-unified-changes-name-of-junipero-serra-high-school-conquistador-mascot-after-students-said-they-were
[quote]San Diego Unified’s Junipero Serra High School will now
be called Canyon Hills High School after students successfully
petitioned for the name change, saying that the name of the
founder of California’s mission system is offensive to
indigenous peoples whose ancestors were subjected to its
doctrine.
On Tuesday night, the San Diego Unified School Board unanimously
voted for the name change and to change the school’s mascot from
a conquistador to a rattlesnake, or a “Rattler.”
Students who started the name and mascot change effort said it’s
offensive and racist to have a conquistador as a mascot because
it represents the Spanish colonization of the Americas, during
which Spanish conquerors carried out a genocide of indigenous
peoples, killing millions by disease and by force. Serra was the
founder of California’s mission system, which assimilated
indigenous people to Catholicism and Spanish culture and was a
key strategy of Spanish colonization.
“The mascot and Serra himself are tied to the oppression of
native peoples, and we shouldn’t be glorifying a mascot like the
conquistador with all the violence,” said Charlotte Taila, a
Canyon Hills High junior who started a petition last summer to
change the mascot. “We shouldn’t be cheering for conquistadors
when there’s nothing to be celebrated.”[/quote]
Exactly. We should also start thinking about how to get their
bloodlines out of the gene pool.
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 22, 2021, 1:22 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXbcaRFyLRY
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Re: Statue decolonization
By: guest5 Date: March 23, 2021, 6:08 pm
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