How about that evil Khruschev cancelling poor Joseph Jugashveli? Not content with changing the name of the city named after him, he even dug up his bones and spirited them away.
I love âBobâs Burgers.â Please donât give them any ideas. Yes, Iâm a liberal and I support BLM. And yes, I also think this shit is going too far. A black personâs life isnât going to be improved because Jenny Slate had to quit her voice acting role. This superficial window dressing only serves to harm and shame people, but isnât actually fixing anyoneâs life or improving conditions for anyone.
(Iâm also thankful Bojack Horseman ended before they were guilted into recasting Diane)
Because of all the complaints that we canât tear down statues of slavers, Confederate generals, imperialists etc., because of âhistoryâ.
When the Americans tore down Saddam Husseinâs statue in Baghdad they didnât ask any locals. When Taiwanese students defaced statues of CKS that their legally constituted university administrations supported, I donât recall any cries against âvandalismâ or the âmobâ on Forumosa.
Because itâs not about rioters or democracy or violence; itâs simply âhooray for our sideâ.
The problem starts when the marxist groups behind the furor start targeting statues of Jesus and other symbols that some fringe finds problematic. Sure Confederate generals were awkward symbols but whoâs next without society deciding democratically? Let the people decide not hate groups.
You have a problem with hypocrisy from some unnamed posters here? Fair enough, but Stalin does seem an odd example as his cancel culture was particularly deadly and went a bit beyond vandalism.
Archbishop of San Francisco recites Exorcism against Satan and the Fallen Angels at site where St. Junipero Serraâs statue was torn down.
Exorcism starts around 20:40 in latin.
Let the city councils decide. Mob rule is bad. My old elementary school is changing itâs name. It was named after some rich landowner in the 1800s who dingdingding owned a farm in Saratoga and had slaves working it.
Communities need to make the decision on the record. Itâs better for the community to do so imo than to allow a bunch of destructive knuckleheads to tear shit down and scare people.
Lost in the shuffle is the fact that Scott was objecting to being called a âtokenâ black by major Democratic Party politicians. If you didnât know better, you might think they had a point. After all, Scott is the only black Republican Senatorâas we are told, over and over againâwhile there must be, what? 10? 20? 30 black Democratic senators?
Actually, there are two. If Kamala Harris resigns to run for vice-president, the parties will be tied at one. In all of American history, there have been ten black Senatorsâfour Republicans and six Democrats.
And this just in. Sens. Booker and Harris did a write up in Rolling STone:
In it they state this little inaccurate gem:
Without them, we would not be writing this today, let alone be among the six popularly elected Black U.S. Senators in our nationâs history.
Yeah, there have been 10; 4 Republicans and 6 Democrats. Why oh why would they not be proud of those AA success stories if Black Lives Matter?
I didnât think Iâd need to explain it! CNN has used his name in headlines many times recently. Drawing nefarious conclusions from the one time they did not, and especially comparing it to individual occasions when the names of other senators were used in headlines, seems silly.