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Re: GoldenMean
Certainly, Isis, the Taliban and the statue-haters have destruction in common, Isis worst.
The bottom line's they want to wipe out history. United States History's both good and shameful. However, it should be learned and learned from. Other thinking earlier in history made those statues click. The film critic in the New York Post Lou Lumenick says the classic blockbuster Gone With the Wind should be banned. The song My Own True Love that Channel 9 in New York used for years as the theme of their Million Dollar Movie inprime time is from thet film.
My own point's today why all of a sudden is there so much extremism in judging these statues. They are of historical and educational interest.
(http://nypost.com/2015/06/24/gone-with-the-wind-should-go-the-way-of-the-confederate-flag/)
posted by
BC-A
on August 28, 2017 at 6:50 AM
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The statue-haters in American now, remind me of ISIS and the Taliban in the Middle East, who want to wipe out all reminders of history before them. So they are destroying temples and monuments that are thousands of years old. It is stupid, it is arrogant, it is evil.
posted by
GoldenMean
on August 27, 2017 at 7:31 PM
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We should use common sense.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on August 26, 2017 at 4:14 PM
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We can judge someone from the past with today's standards
posted by
Annicita
on August 24, 2017 at 12:04 PM
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I feel that you are spot on with your assessment, Bill.
I wonder how far we are going to go when it comes to handling historic monuments and dedications.
For instance, should we take down World War II monuments because we teamed up with Joseph Stalin?
Should FDR be removed from the dime because of the internment camps?
Should all American and European monuments be removed because of the genocide of indigenous peoples in the Western Hempishere?
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 23, 2017 at 8:10 AM
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