I want Trump out as much as the next guy, but I don't think this helps anything.
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This absolutely helps-As a UNC alumnus + as someone who helped produce a documentary on silent sam, the presence of the statue was a daily reminder that UNC valued money over the safety of its POC students; I’d be happy to give an inside perspective as to just how helpful this is
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Silent Sam coming down has absolutely nothing to do with the "safety" of poc on the campus. Get real. All this destructive riotous disorganized energy could be channeled in actual positive direction like directly helping people. But no. Shouting and placards. This solves NOTHING
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This doesn’t “solve” anything but it’s sure as hell a start. I saw my friends and classmates see a reminder every day that UNC cared more about ensuring the safety of a statue over their own POC students’ bodies.
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I'm highly sympathetic to the urge to destroy symbols of our county's racist legacy, but I'm also concerned that this only gives more fuel to the cause you wish to extinguish.
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To the many activists on our campus, it was the only option. The administration wasn’t doing anything to remove it, and history won’t be reversed tomorrow, but it’s gone—it isn’t a towering symbol of white supremacy to the POC all across campus. That feels like a little victory.
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Now it properly represents the Confederacy. A truly accurate depiction of a failed rebellion.
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It reminds me when the Talibans blew up the Bouddha statues in Afghanistan. Same misunderstanting of history and culture.
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Nah, the kids have the right idea.
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Let that be a lesson to dirt poor farmers who never owned a slave who fight against an army invading their homeland
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Whatever else this statue tried to communicate, it was explicitly and openly meant as a symbol of "Anglo Saxon" purity and horse whipping blacks to keep them in line. Here's the whole dedication speech. http://hgreen.people.ua.edu/transcription-carr-speech.html …
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This is madness I do not know the story of Silent Sam b/c it doesn't matter. This is not civility, this is lawlessness.
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yeah, you should work on that. kind of explains why it came down.
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HUH? Whatever nonsense point you are trying to make did not come across It does NOT matter the story of the statue, this is the same as the flag draped assholes who think it is ok to "patrol" the boarder on their own
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it's a monument to defending slavery erected after the Civil War. that's important. it's a big "fuck you" to freed slaves. that's why it had to come down. the story is why it was offensive and removed.
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And for you it is perfectly acceptable to destroy property you find offensive? There are ways to do things and then there is this bullshit lawlessness
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this is necessary, yes. it was there for over a hundred years, the administration clearly wasn't going to do the right thing.
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Violence and lawlessness is never the answer, it gives the right a rallying cry and diminishes your standing in the argument. Having a childish emotional outburst is for the right wingers not logical thinking humans
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this is what getting shit done looks like. it's neither pretty nor clean, and the other side is more than happy to stomp all over anyone refusing to engage in the name of civility. but do your thing.
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