[NEWS] Confederate monuments are being torn down in the South

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/24/us/new-orleans-confederate-statues/

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-orleans-starts-taking-down-confederate-monuments-sparking-vigils-n750036

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/24/new-orleans-begins-to-take-down-prominent-confederate-monuments.html

In the dark of night, workers wearing masks and tactical vests arrived Monday at New Orleans' Battle of Liberty Place monument to take it down.

Police snipers were positioned on nearby rooftops, according to The Times-Picayune newspaper. Company names on trucks and equipment were covered with cardboard and black tape to protect contractors involved in the controversial operation.

It was the first of four scheduled relocations of Confederate memorials in New Orleans after years of heated public debate and legal battles. City officials have attempted to move the monuments since 2015 amid opposition from pro-monument groups and threats against workers. A federal judge in Louisiana affirmed the city's right to move them in March and the city secured private funding to do so.

Because of threats and security risks, the city will not publicly disclose details for the next three removals. Mayor Mitch Landrieu's office said the statues will go to storage while the city looks for a suitable venue to display them, such as a museum.

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[LeisureSuit912]

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[Electrk.]

Mayor Mitch Landrieu

Mitch the Mayor's behind this?!

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#doublestandards

[PhantOS]

Didn't the confederates used to execute all enemy black soldiers on sight but keep white ones as prisoners?

[LeisureSuit912]

Didn't the confederates used to execute all enemy black soldiers on sight but keep white ones as prisoners?

Didn't the confederates own black people as slaves?

[Tactical Nuke]

I'm particularly appalled at the lack of respect for history here

"but muh white supremasseeeeeeeeeeee-"

the Japanese internment camps are kept up, and so is Auschwitz, why can't these be kept up?
because they make you uncomfortable? too bad, just move
because they inspire tribals? no they don't, not anymore, that stuff's been moved online
because it honors tribals? too bad, they did a lot of good (or bad) to get made into a monument while you do jack stuff working at home and sipping your Starbucks like a loving weeb
you could argue that everyone who's ever been made into a statue has had discriminatory tendencies, but you wouldn't dare ask that every single statue everywhere be taken down, so sit the forget down and keep sipping that latte friend, it's time you learned your nation's goddamn loving history

Christ that kinda turned into a rant didn't it

[PhantOS]

Wish you had that kind of determination when shia's flag was being constantly vandalized

[Electrk.]

Wish you had that kind of determination when shia's flag was being constantly vandalized

it's called capture the flag

[Tactical Nuke]

Wish you had that kind of determination when shia's flag was being constantly vandalized

that implies shia's flag is worth something

[PhantOS]

that implies shia's flag is worth something

you're right. Its only worth something if you agree with it politically. So i guess these confederate statues are worthless to me & everyone else who dislikes them

[Electrk.]

you're right. Its only worth something if you agree with it politically

there's a difference between historic monuments and some self-important celebrity's art project

[LeisureSuit912]

I'm particularly appalled at the lack of respect for history here

"but muh white supremasseeeeeeeeeeee-"

the Japanese internment camps are kept up, and so is Auschwitz, why can't these be kept up?
because they make you uncomfortable? too bad, just move
because they inspire tribals? no they don't, not anymore, that stuff's been moved online
because it honors tribals? too bad, they did a lot of good (or bad) to get made into a monument while you do jack stuff working at home and sipping your Starbucks like a loving weeb
you could argue that everyone who's ever been made into a statue has had discriminatory tendencies, but you wouldn't dare ask that every single statue everywhere be taken down, so sit the forget down and keep sipping that latte friend, it's time you learned your nation's goddamn loving history

Christ that kinda turned into a rant didn't it

Of course they matter, they're just representations of some of the worst people who have ever lived

This is like if Germans kept up national socialist monuments because "we gotta respect our history"

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Wish you had that kind of determination when shia's flag was being constantly vandalized

Hundreds of thousands of people didn't die under shia's flag

[PhantOS]

there's a difference between historic monuments and some self-important celebrity's art project

they're both removal of rightful property and therefore the removal of it is wrong