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Element 99

It's 'Let's go extreme' time. Should the statues of all the US founding fathers be removed if they owned slaves?

We should also include memorials and monuments.

Posted - June 29, 2021
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  • 19937
    These are part of our history, like it or not.  Removing them doesn't change anything.  Yes, slavery of any kind is abominable, but the one thing no one ever seems to speak about is that no one in America could have bought slaves and brought them here if someone on the other end hadn't been willing to sell them.  How is it that the former African tribal chiefs are never excoriated for selling their own?  Why isn't restitution being sought from Africa?
      June 29, 2021 9:05 AM MDT
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  • 581
    Why?  The bible told them to.  Leviticus 25:44 ;  "As for you male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among  the nations around you."
      June 29, 2021 11:31 AM MDT
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  • 448
    No, that is ridiculous.
      June 29, 2021 12:48 PM MDT
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  • 44651
    I know. I am my usual sarcastic self.
      June 29, 2021 2:08 PM MDT
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  • 11092
    Should we also rename all cities and states that bear their names?
      June 29, 2021 7:38 PM MDT
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  • 44651
    Yes...and all folks whose names are Washington and Jefferson should change theirs, too.
      June 30, 2021 7:55 AM MDT
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  • 3025
    Yes, all of them. 
      June 30, 2021 10:19 AM MDT
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  • 17614
    Of course not. 
      June 29, 2021 8:00 PM MDT
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  • 53526

     

      I’m still waiting for these “cancel culture” dweebs to completely stop using any and all money that bears the names and likenesses of people on their hate lists. Hypocrisy, or irony?

    :(

      June 30, 2021 7:00 AM MDT
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  • 44651
    Oops, there go the Jefferson nickel, the Washington quarter, the one dollar bill, the two dollar bill etc. This post was edited by Element 99 at June 30, 2021 5:50 PM MDT
      June 30, 2021 7:57 AM MDT
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  • 53526

     

      And Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, Anthony, Eisenhower . . .

    :(

      July 1, 2021 5:36 PM MDT
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  • 44651
    Other than Jackson, what is wrong with the others? Anthony? What did she do, other than be on the ugliest coin in US history?
      July 2, 2021 4:24 PM MDT
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  • 53526

     

      Don’t ask me. I’m sure the “everything is racist” crowd and the “everyone in history wronged me” crowd will find something on which to base a baseless complaint. 


    :[

      July 2, 2021 9:11 PM MDT
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  • 44651
    OK. Anyone with German ancestors should be shunned for what was done to the Jews in WWII. The entire human race should be cancelled.
      July 2, 2021 9:19 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    And, we need to rename Jefferson Airplane.  Let's not forget them.
      June 30, 2021 8:03 AM MDT
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  • 3025
    What about the Ancient Egyptians and the Romans, they owned slaves.  Cancel them as well. 
      June 30, 2021 10:00 AM MDT
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  • 44651
    All of them...cancel everyone. Except us Jews, of course.
      June 30, 2021 10:30 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    Sure ... but let's hold every memorial and building to account for any wrongs those it memorializes committed.

    The Supreme Court and Congress ruled that slavery was okay, as well.
    So let's tear down those buildings.

    Salt the earth of every former plantation, where slaves were owned.

    Dig up every military cemetery, as the US has used its military to oppress other nations for hundreds of years.

    Give the land back to the indigenous peoples who had settled there.
    Ship all the "immigrants" back to the nations of their ancestors (and then we'll start the process there, as well).
      June 30, 2021 1:34 PM MDT
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  • 44651
    Yeah...all aboard the 'Cancel Culture Train'.
      June 30, 2021 7:48 PM MDT
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