Yale Feels Left Out So They Create Their Own Statue Issue

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  1. guerillabedlam

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    In a purely philosophical sense, I agree with you but the "herd mentality" as it pertains to modern day identity politics has escalated in recent years and I think there are many "free thinking" individuals who have not succumb to the dogmatic-type ideologies being espoused by various sides.
     
  2. Artifacts. Get over your damned selves. This crappy art...put it in a garden maybe. Oh it's an artifact because it's made of stone and someone poorly carved it. How mysterious. Let's get the world's foremost scientists on this one.
     
  3. You don't know what you're talking about. You just make shit up and feel like you're superior to everyone because you do word searches for dumb words like corbel. Call it corbel if you want to. I think a giant rock man ate a human baby and took a shit and this is what came out.
     
  4. Noserider

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    Considering that humans are herd animals, a herd mentality is totally normal.
     
  5. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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    Does the article actually mention where this is moving? It says it will be available for study in another location, so there ya go those of you who think history only comes from 60 year old statues and stone carvings. Go forth and learn your history in its new location!
     
  6. Noserider

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    But then they'd have to actually commit to learning something. Much easier to drive around with a stars and bars bumpersticker, passing the Robert E. Lee fountain in front of the courthouse or whatever the hell.

    So now it's, hey, you're going to have to get off your ass to see history now. To which the reply seems to be, "Fuck. That. Shit."
     
  7. Meliai

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  8. Piaf

    Piaf Senior Member

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    I don't think anyone implied that....?



    I see so many monuments and statues celebrating communists and partisans, on a daily basis.
    Even though I come from a family whose members suffered a great deal at the hands of commies and socialists and that evil regime, I never felt offended and triggered.
     
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  9. Piaf

    Piaf Senior Member

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    Well good for both of you for not lumping everyone together
     
  10. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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    Wellll when people say "but America, soon you'll have no history left!" it does kind of imply that

    Read a book. Go to a museum, ya know?

    I'm not offended or triggered, I've been seeing confederate statues my whole life and could care less. But I do think both sides are being silly.
     
  11. Noserider

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    That seems to be the biggest argument: That removing monuments from public spaces is erasing or rewriting history.
     
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  12. Rots in hell

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    Yeah lets just Stick everything in a Museum That will sort out All the worlds problems !
    I honestly cant believe you lot
    Glad you Guys dont wanna come over here and demolish all the Castles in Wales that Us English Cunts built !!
    History is a living thing ! Yeah lets just make a Video And then get rid of it all
    Nothing to argue about then ( it will be safer )
     
  13. Rots in hell

    Rots in hell Senior Member

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    http://youtu.be/sNvgD9ZnN4E
     
  14. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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    Who are you even talking to though, what lot? No one in this thread has said they want them taken down
     
  15. Rots in hell

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    All this week I have been reading ( on here ) about stuff that The permanently Offended want Changing ,Removing , obliterating so I as a lover of History Reacted
    Pretty sure It was Mentioned !
     
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  16. Piaf

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    Maybe Europeans and Americans should be separated lol.
    Segregation ftw.
     
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  17. soulcompromise

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    Some of the posts here made me laugh.. especially the statue of liberty, above.

    In any case with regard to the statue I can see why the original was a problem. It does look like a gun pointed at a guy. In that vein I suppose it makes sense to take it down; which they probably should have done to begin with. And as for groupthink, I think it's impossible to find some sort of consensus without a group mentality. That's not to say people can't or shouldn't voice individual opinions. What groupthink is, is
    https://www.google.com/search?q=groupthink&oq=groupthink&aqs=chrome..69i57.1397j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

    What I see here is an effort to be a group for the sake of group consensus.
     
  18. Meliai

    Meliai Banned

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    I'm just personally playing devils advocate because I think some arguments I'm hearing are silly, I dont have any strong opinions either way.

    Personally I think this should be a local issue left to the people who actually pay taxes to maintain these monuments and the parks they're in. I dont know why everyone else cares so much. Towns should be able to vote to remove the statues they paid to build and upkeep without Nazis storming their town, or they should be able to vote to keep the statues up through a civil democratic vote, without idiots illegally tearing down the statues in the night. Whatever they want if their local taxes are paying for it and its done in a civil way.

    And Yale can do what it wants too, to stay on topic. Why this even made the news I dont know
     
  19. Piaf

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    I see the word "Nazi" is being used very loosely these days
     
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  20. Rots in hell

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    By people who have no Idea what one is !
     

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