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Mt. Rushmore

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Were you all aware that the artist who created Mt. Rushmore was a member of the KKK and previously worked on the Stone Mountain monument to the Confederacy? I never knew that.

Is it a coincidence that Trump is holding a rally there after claiming Black Lives Matter is a symbol of hate.

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llilibel03 said:
Were you all aware that the artist who created Mt. Rushmore was a member of the KKK and previously worked on the Stone Mountain monument to the Confederacy? I never knew that.

Is it a coincidence that Trump is holding a rally there after claiming Black Lives Matter is a symbol of hate.

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You can learn a lot about the politics of Wikipedia by digging through the edit history of the wikipedia post you cited.
 
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Billy Ocean said:
Now Mt Rushmore is racist

do you see what is happening?

everything American is racist now and must be destroyed

How do you think that will work out?
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It's like red ants overrunning the black ants.

Except the black ants are the white people.

Which doesn't really help my metaphor. :poop:

Race hysteria is not good for a society.

When income inequality reaches a certain point, you get unrest.

That is what is happening.
 
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GromsDad said:
The artist who painted this was rasis and even painted white Jesus. This painting is a rasis symbol to BLM and must be destroyed. If you like this painting you too are rasis.

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She originally had her hands giving the WP "OK" sign...Leo had to redeux..
True story
 
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Well, then let's blast it because, to use Teddy Roosevelt's words about the Grand Canyon-

"Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."

I was never a fan of that monument. It would be like carving Trump's head on El Capitan.
 
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llilibel03 said:
Well, then let's blast it because, to use Teddy Roosevelt's words about the Grand Canyon-

"Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."

I was never a fan of that monument. It would be like carving Trump's head on El Capitan.
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I’m not comfortable with the worship status someone gets when there‘s a statue of them. They’re not gods. They’re ordinary people.
 
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hammies said:
Remember when the Taliban blew up some old Buddhst monuments because they were offended by their existence. The world went nuts at their narrow-mindedness and bigotry.
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a 2,000 year old 175 foot tall statue hand carved in to the side of a sandstone cliff.....

I would not, in good conscience, compare the cultural or historical significance of the two

on the other hand, some things just need to go

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Mt Rushmore is probably the dumbest tourist attraction in the US. I was on a cross country trip and the hosts drove by it. The photos make it look huge, which it is . . . . . maybe if you are looking at it from a helicopter. From the ground it's so far up that it doesn't look like much. Why people drive out of their way to see it is :ROFLMAO:
 
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I've always thought maybe we could appeal to Trump's ego (you cannot deny he has a huge one) and cajole him into designating the biggest, most awesome, wilderness area in the world. I even wrote a letter to their campaign and unfortunately go on their mailing list.
 
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