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Message 9 of 734 (782996)
05-02-2016 10:09 AM


The wheel turns.
I really don't see how any of the examples like this matter enough to get upset in either direction. If some institution's logo or name or statue or flag upsets enough people to persuade the institution to remove or replace the logo or name or statue or flag then that institution should have the right to remove or change the logo or name or statue or flag.
Now if there was an attempt as has happened in other countries to pass a law banning certain logos or names or statues or flags or dress then I think we all need to tremble in our boots and rise up in opposition.

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Message 15 of 734 (783005)
05-02-2016 11:11 AM
Reply to: Message 13 by Percy
05-02-2016 11:00 AM


Percy writes:
At what point do we stop trying to play God and sift human souls. All human life is sacred, and once departed from this earth we must forgive them.
Forgiving and memorializing are not quite the same thing.
A monument and a law are not quite the same thing.
Yesterday and today are not quite the same thing.
If a city or university or company or organization decides to change a display or symbol or statue or even a whole carving on a mountain do they not have the right to do so?
Public opinions change. Maybe a decade from now the organization may decide to put the monument back up, and if so, then should they not have the right to do so?
When we need to get concerned is when such acts get codified into laws. A law that said all Confederate Flags must be taken down is a law we need to fear. A law that said a monument honoring the US Solders that participated in the Genocide done under the command of President Jackson cannot be built is a law we need to fear.
Public opinion driving an organization to take down a monument is not something to fear.

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Message 51 of 734 (783435)
05-05-2016 12:25 PM
Reply to: Message 50 by NoNukes
05-05-2016 12:16 PM


Even strongly held sincere beliefs can be wrong.
Times change.
Someday people might even want to put the statues of Lenin and Marx back up.

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Message 66 of 734 (783549)
05-06-2016 11:52 AM
Reply to: Message 65 by ringo
05-06-2016 11:50 AM


Expectations
Should we have an expectation that things we disapprove of are not memorialized or honored?

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Message 674 of 734 (808515)
05-11-2017 10:50 AM
Reply to: Message 671 by Percy
05-11-2017 9:40 AM


Re: New Orleans is Removing Confederate War Monuments
Americans are basically ignorant, uneducated and incapable of critical thought.

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