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Kind of him to reset it so the toppling can commence again
I feel like it generally is bad to go around ripping down statues
It is also incredibly problematic to keep idolizing southern generals. It is all about building a racist narrative and we need pushback.
After the war, Confederate president Jefferson Davis tried to escape the US by dressing as a woman. I think we should pay tribute to his bravery by replacing all Confederate statues with a statue of him doing that, and a plaque that says something like "the south's most famous drag queen".
Slavey is back as an honorable American tradition as we all heard from VANCE saying this loud and clear: people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don’t belong.
Thermite, eh?
That seems incredibly dangerous
Not really, it's super stable. Just don't let it get to a few thousand degrees, because then it might burn.
Statues can be surprisingly important. For example the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn sparked a lot of controversy in 2006-2007. Estonians saw it as a sign of soviet oppression and wanted to get rid of it. Russians obviously wanted to defend the statue, so all of this resulted several riots and cyber-attacks.
Why am I not surprised