Upon closer inspection, this is what a conferederate statue looks like. It’s the metal, magnified a hundred times:
Why are statues so important to some people? Honestly. It doesn’t actually ‘repreresent’ anything either, does it? It’s what the sculptor chose to ‘represent’. He could have equally constructed a cube standing up on one edge to represent the past.
When I look at this statue (albeit a pictorial replication on the internet), I see bronze metal that has developed a green patina. It’s sort of in the shape of a horse. With a man riding it. And a hat. I don’t see so many monuments with the riders wearing hats. Is the hat what makes it important? :-/
If you were to look at this monument closer in real life, much closer, under a microscope say, you wouldn’t see an effigy of Robert Edward Lee. You wouldn’t see any flesh and blood. You wouldn’t see his soul or anything else. You wouldn’t see anything to do with the history of slavery or Charlottesville. Or Virginia. Or anything to do with confederate-anything.
What would you see? You’d only see the metallic grains of the original alloying elements, copper and tin. Even underneath the patina, polished back to its original lustre, it’d look a lot like this under the microscope. A bit like the featured image above.
Right?
In other words, in material terms, it has bugger all true value. Well maybe it’s worth US$2 to 3 per pound.
That sculpture is also going to disappear anyway in a few million years. What possible difference does it make now?
Why would you want to honor a statue about slavery? Why?!
Well that is my perspective on confederate statues.
What the fuck is wrong with you people? Seriously? I’m not going to stand by and watch you all bitch about this. Even if I’m not American. Even if I don’t live there. Sorry.
Here’s my perspective (and I think ya’all need some perspective on this):
This is not an attempt to change history! I don’t see people burning your history books or rewriting wikipedia! Get over it! Why are you all so paranoid?
It’s not “unrecognizable”. It’s not “Owellian”. It’s not “silly”. It’s not “insanity”. It’s evolution. It’s progression. It’s admitting that you are not proud of some of your history. Or is that it? Are you are actually proud of slavery roots? It certainly seems like it to me… maybe you better clarify your position?
It’s okay for white people to have some limits and set boundaries, but I don’t think this is one of those times. Maybe the real reason you get so anxious about this is that your white culture is too ill-defined? At least that’s what I see.
Culture is not about statues. Or is it? Is that it? That you want some sculpture to be a part of who you are? *shakes head in disbelief*
IMHO, you’re acting like a bunch of retards. No doubt I will get blocked and removed from this thread, but I don’t care. For some bizarre reason I feel compelled to speak my mind here. Maybe because I find it scary that you are all so much in ‘agreement’ that this is ‘wrong’. Maybe because I don’t like Nazi flags. Maybe because by father fought against the Nazis. Anyway, it’s truly horrible to see the allies that were once so anti-Hitler becoming neo-Nazi…
Why do you not like black people? I think they’re cool! I’d rather hang with a black person than white people who get all sentimental over a statue.
And so we come to ‘supremacy’. How the fuck can the white race be superior, if 90% of track and field athletes and most basketballers are BLACK? If whites were superior in everything, blacks would lose every time. And yet they don’t.
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