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[NEWS] Confederate monuments are being torn down in the South
JumboMuffin:
--- Quote from: IkeTheGeneric on April 25, 2017, 02:15:51 PM ---How does attacking a historical monument end racism, again?
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i prefer the approach of handing the sYstEM a pepsi
King Tøny:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on April 25, 2017, 01:28:53 PM ---Right. They're also standing down. If they weren't they'd be firing their snipers.
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That's not standing down, there is nothing to "stand down"
The word you are looking for is "standby"
King Tøny:
What would they be firing their snipers at? Thin air?
Do you know any military terms?
Master Matthew²:
--- Quote from: PhantOS on April 25, 2017, 02:17:15 PM ---It doesn't
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In fact, by removing these parts of history, they are very well into the first couple of steps into repeating, not saying that's
out of character considering the intentions behind these actions, but keep an eye out.
Barnabas:
This looks like when all the monuments honouring communist figureheads (Lenin, etc.) were taken down in Eastern Europe en masse. Except people generally agreed on removing those monuments. Some of these monuments were later moved to parks dedicated to the memory of those who suffered and perished under the communist dicatorships, while the less significant ones were destroyed.
The situation seems different in a sense, that these monuments seem to have been erected with more popular support than the ones in Eastern Europe.