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Something-Clever-Here, PresidentAndy Cush
9/03/15 10:57am
So this should be taken down but something about it needs to be in a museum.
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  Vanguard KnightSomething-Clever-Here, President
  9/03/15 11:01am
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  PhuryDragonSomething-Clever-Here, President
  9/03/15 11:02am
  Why not? There are dead stuffed animals in museums and other stupid stuff. Might as well add this particular item as well. Right between the ancient pile of poop and vomit.
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Bull MooseAndy Cush
9/03/15 11:02am
But...but...but...I didn’t think the Civil War was about white supremacy. I thought it was about “states’ rights”...?
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  AssFault on the Highway to HellBull Moose
  9/03/15 11:08am
  Wow, it literally says otherwise, in stone no less! I really could have used a jpg of that monument’s inscription in so many debates with Confederate Flag bearers...
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  DiscoInfernoSupressionSystemBull Moose
  9/03/15 11:08am
  It was about State’s Rights.
  
  A State’s Right to own other human beings.
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BaggyTrousers3Andy Cush
9/03/15 11:06am
I assume Bobby Jindal is against removing the monument.
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  dwarfgoatBaggyTrousers3
  9/03/15 11:18am
  So much nuanced win in this comment.
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  That Is Not IronicBaggyTrousers3
  9/03/15 11:20am
  A lot of white people are.
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ManchuCandidateAndy Cush
9/03/15 11:03am
Blow it up or change it into a Human League Monument.
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  25% Meaner Godzooks - BACK TO EVENManchuCandidate
  9/03/15 11:14am
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  Annoy-a-tronManchuCandidate
  9/03/15 11:50am
  Don’t you want it, baby?
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deanmartinsrectalpolyps2Andy Cush
9/03/15 10:59am
So what they’re saying in that inscription is , “We’ll intimidate with violence anyone who opposes us, unless you send the Army, then we’ll run like scared little babies, screaming for our daddy.” Not exactly the spirit of Lexington and Concord there.
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  Kenhe Logindeanmartinsrectalpolyps2
  9/03/15 11:07am
  Bullies generally are only willing to take a stand when they have little risk. They are generally cowards.
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  Justindeanmartinsrectalpolyps2
  9/03/15 11:08am
  What else would you expect from the French?
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nopunin10didAndy Cush
9/03/15 12:16pm
Everyone knows that racism is over in America.

Just out of curiosity, has anyone actually heard someone claim that racism is over simply because Obama was elected?

I mean, I live in the south. There are plenty of plainly visible racists around, but even they don’t seem to claim this.
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  cepalgnopunin10did
  9/03/15 1:13pm
  yuuuuup.
  
  “because a black guy is president, racism must logically no longer present any barrier to black people.”
  
  Curiously the people saying this tend not to actually know any black people.
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  caekislove-caekingitupnopunin10did
  9/03/15 1:37pm
  No, it’s just something that bloggers have been thinking is an “ironic” thing to stick in political articles since around November 2008. Nobody literally believes that.
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GregoireAndy Cush
9/03/15 10:59am
I emphatically disagree with the removal of this monument. Instead I propose that another statue — that of an immense buttocks — be erected surrounding it, with this White League memorial slipped inside of it.

By the way, the monument is frequently defaced:

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  hilikusopusGregoire
  9/03/15 11:48am
  I was going to say, with all the graffiti and defacement it must attract, they most likely want to remove the monument for being a perennial eyesore.
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Zsa Zsa GaborgAndy Cush
9/03/15 11:42am
My sister’s old high school is having a similar issue. It was named for J.E.B. Stuart, confederate general and historic racist, to scare black families away after Brown v Board. It’s now one of the most ethnically and socio-economically diverse public schools in the country, and some people want to rename it after Thurgood Marshall (who lived nearby and certainly deserves it). The problem is it costs a lot more than you’d think to change the name - everything from uniforms to stationary to diplomas would need to be redesigned, new signage would have to be installed, and as a public school they can think of a million better ways to spend money. At my sister’s graduation, one of her friends said something very smart: that horrible man would never have approved of his name on such a diverse, inclusive institution, and he’s probably spinning in his grave.

Then again, New Orleans has to pay for this stupid thing’s upkeep, so I say get rid of it, put something better there, and have a nice plaque saying that a racist monument stood there until 2015.
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HiMyNameIsJayAgainAndy Cush
9/03/15 11:00am
Heritage Rabble Rabble Erasing History Rabble Rabble Just Like ISIS Rabble Rabble
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dothedewAndy Cush
9/03/15 11:01am
Hey, you can’t expect all the monuments and plaques to come off overnight! These things take time.

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When ISIS does it, the world is up in arms. But when the US government destroys history, the libruls cheer.
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  asmallcatdothedew
  9/03/15 11:28am
  This is not remotely as historical as what is being destroyed in Syria. This is an unimportant, aesthetically uninteresting monument celebrating white supremacy. There’s no reason it needs to be prominently, publicly displayed.
  
  However, I agree that it shouldn’t be destroyed. Put it in a museum so it can be trotted out whenever idiots try to claim the civil war was about anything other than slavery and white supremacy.
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  Captain Calamitydothedew
  9/03/15 11:47am
  The difference is, ISIS destroys things that represent beliefs no longer actively practiced. If the same could be said for what this obelisk represents, then “libruls” wouldn’t care if it stayed up.
  
  It’s the same answer “libruls” always have to explain to the lovely people on the other side of the ideological divide who cry “reverse-discrimination:” we’re actually not in a post-racism society yet, and therefore this thing is still an active monument rather than a piece of history.
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