Is anybody else here pissed off about Richmond VA removing all of its Confederate monuments? And why weren’t the vandals held accountable for damages?

[Anonymous]

The former Capital of the Confederacy has removed all of its confederate monuments under public pressure. All because a small and vocal minority of people deemed them too “offensive”.

Even though in reality they’re just ignorant of history.

Hell the matter wasn’t even decided by a public referendum. The city’s mayor just decided he wanted to get rid of the monuments.

But besides that point, I would’ve liked to have one day seen those monuments in person. But of course, I no longer have that option. All because Democrats believe in erasing history they deem to be “too offensive” which is merely a subjective matter.

But the fact of the matter is much of the world’s history isn’t pretty. But its still important for understanding how things came to be.

And worse yet they didn’t even attempt to prosecute those people that posted pictures of themselves on social media vandalizing the monuments even though they were clearly committing a crime by decimating city property.

Anyways I just find it upsetting how these people broke the law and yet they aren’t being held accountable for it.

I know this old news, but I’m in Virginia this week and the issue just came back to mind.

I’m just sick of watching the left having no respect for our history and trying to erase every possible aspect of it.

I read into the issue a bit more and basically what happened is the Democrats in Virginia unanimously voted in 2020 to allow localities to “remove and relocate” (via HB 1537 and SB 137) war monuments whereas they had previously been protected under a state law passed in 1997.

Either way it’s important for people to understand the history of the city, regardless of whether or not they agree with it. But of course it seems as though Democrats just want to tuck the city’s history away and hide it just because its an inconvient truth for them to live with.

Either way it’s just upsetting to see how their personal beliefs are enough to justify erasing history that they disagree with.

[alice55]

Pretty weird they did that considering those monuments are historic one, in France they could have never done it. They tried it but they got told to "go fuck themselves" XD

The government wanted to remove he statue of Napoleon and replace it by another one of a woman but the citizen voted at 70 % against it, they want Napoleon to comeback and so he did comeback. Liberal are so annoying. Wanting to remove th statu of an emperor for putting a unknown woman instead. It's great they couldn't do it. They also wanted to change our street name to replace men name by women name but same things happened people were against it.

[Asker]

Gee well at least in France politicians aren’t deciding all the issues for their voters

[Asker]

Its not like that here

[alice55]

For this kind of stuff they don't cause they know if they do people wold riots XD

It's crazy, maybe you should try to riots like us

[Anonymous]

It's 2022, and the tiny minority of woke freaks control the majority.

Prince Charming kissed Sleeping Beauty, but the woke couldn't stand that, because the prince should have asked the girl in the coma for permission to bring her back to life. So Disney had to pull the plug, in order to cater to the fucking freaks.

[Exterminatore]

I must have missed that one. Did they seriously pull Sleeping Beauty because of that?

[Opinion Owner]

@Exterminatore

Absolutely. The prince didn't have proper consent for the kiss. The woke freaks would rather have Sleeping Beauty remain in her coma for life, than to have the prince save her without proper consent.



Pepe Le-Pew had to go, because this cartoon character was promoting "rape culture"


Dr. Seuss had to go, because even though black people loved the children's books, the white, woke freaks said the books were racist.


Racist mouse had to go



The woke filed a law suit in order to get rid of the Frito Bandito



Coke told it's white employees to try and be less white. I no longer buy that product, because I'm way too white.

[Exterminatore]

I heard about most of the other stuff but not Sleeping Beauty.

I won’t buy Coke products because they told their white employees to be less white. I won’t buy Galette products because of their toxic manhood commercials either. Companies should focus on making money. Since these businesses want to get involved in politics I don’t agree with they don’t need my business. Same with Disney. They forgot middle class white people are the largest demographic that can afford to go to their park. I won’t go there nor see their movies or buy their products either and I encourage everyone to do likewise.

I find none of those things you mentioned as offensive or racist.

I consider Woke to be a false religion. They have original sin (being straight, white or male). There is no redemption for sins though. They have their martyrs. (George Floyd, Michael Brown), they have their teachers and preachers (universities and public schools), they have their centers and events of worship (seminars, rallies and protests), they have their saints (Biden, Harris, Obama, Hilary and Bill Clinton Karl Marx, and others) they have their holy books (communist manifesto, Das Kapital) and the name of their false God is equality. Equality cannot exist because we are not all the same. Some are smart some aren’t. Some are fast. Some aren’t. Some are strong, some aren’t. Some have illnesses, some don’t. All people are not the same therefore there can never be true equality. I accept there are people who are smarter, faster, stronger, or more whatever than me, and likewise are I more whatever than some people too. This is the facts of life. These and personal choice typically determine a persons lot in life. This country is the most free and has the most opportunity. People are where there are often because of personal choice and blaming racism, sexism, oppression and every other cause except blaming themselves in this country is absurd. No one wants to blame themselves

I truly despise Woke ideology.

[Exterminatore]

Instead they blame imaginary systematic racism for their problems instead of their piss poor personal choices.

[Opinion Owner]

@Exterminatore

Elon Musk hates the woke, and he makes it no secret. He calls them childish bullies that need to have things their own way. I think that's why he bought Twitter.

And after our first talk, I Googled it, and it was Snow White. But I also saw where people were confused with the two stories, and so am I. I also posted a question about it.

Do you think the woke liberals will cancel cardiopulmonary resuscitation? (CPR)? ↗

Two idiots said they don't believe me about this, so I just deleted them. I'm just tired of arguing. If they are to fucking stupid to Google it, then they won't have a place on my questions.

[Exterminatore]

I think that’s part of why Elon did that, plus to have non fake info and censorship after liberals did what they did in the last election. This way someone has control over at least one social media outlet and ensures our voices aren’t silenced.

He also told the liberal state of CA to screw off and moved his business to TX I believe.

Over all I like him.

[Opinion Owner]

@Exterminatore

And now the libs are panicking about Elon buying Twitter. They created some bullshit disinformation czar, so we'll have to wait and see how much damage they can cause from that. The last things the libs want is the truth and free speech.

[Anonymous]

Funny how we never heard about any of these monuments being pulled down or vandalized to the extent they were in the 1970s.

Or the 80s.

Or the 90s.

Or the early 2000s.

Really all these protests didn’t start until only just a few years ago...🤔

I guess they needed time to get mad about it?

[Asker]

Wait bro actually? I thought this was just a present day thing

[Opinion Owner]

There are actually two monuments that were removed in my city just a few years ago.

The stupid thing is that no one cared about them before. They had been there for decades and decades.

The even stupider thing, is that one of the statues removed was of a Confederate general who had later fought for African-American rights and used his political influence to ensure that the city’s parks stayed integrated when the city tried to ban Black people from visiting after the Civil War. The man helped the black community in my town so much that they eulogized him when he died, because he had done so much for them in the city.

But he was a no good Confederate so fuck him and his statue that had been there for over 70 years.

None of these screeching blue haired Lefties ever bother to read any history, because they don’t care about history. They care about their narrative. Their stupid world view taking over.

[abc3643]

Those monuments are offensive because they praise enemies in the United States of America. That is like giving comfort and support to the enemy. That is treason. People who support that should be shot.

[BeMuse]

Democrats don't want people to remember that they were slavers and KKK members. They are trying rewrite history in their pathetic push for communism. At the end of the day there is a noose waiting for them though. Treason is no joke.

[exitseven]

Yes, the only justice for the vandals that knocked over the statues was the statue that fell on top of one of them and killed him. I think they should make a statue of him like they did George Floyd. I swear you can't make this shit up.

[Jamie05rhs]

Thanks for your post. Most of us here fully agree with you and were also against it. Unfortunately, what's done is done. It happened under an activist leftist administration. Elections have consequences.

[Jamie05rhs]

I will say, though, that the Charlottesville riots (back in 2017) didn't help things. We never asked those people to come here. The alt-right white supremacists and whatnot. And they drew in the counter-protesters, which included Antifa. And the inept police department let things get out of hand, and that's why that lady was run over with the car by the crazy kid from Ohio. All of that could have been avoided if the police had just kept the two sides separate and let them yell at each other from a distance.
But here we are...

[Jamie05rhs]

I might add that the above-described incident happened under the administration of Terry McAuliffe, who Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney worked for at the time.

[boobliker]

we need to remember the past so we don't let it happen again! so yes the vandal's should pay the repair costs.

[normalice]

When people normally put statues up of their enemies it's called a "practice dummy."

[Asker]

Actually. Those statues were put up with the support of those communities

[Agagagagaga]

Dude don’t bother. He’s one of the most far Left people here. You could be talking about getting a flat tire and he’d tell you how the Orange Man was responsible. You’re not dealing with a rational person.

[normalice]

Oh, I know, but the people in those communities who put upmthe statue are long dead and, in fact, also our enemies.

Interesting, agag, that you admit opposition to the confederacy is left wing (an thus the confederacy was right wing). Usually it takes hours to drag that out of a far right troll 😅

[Agagagagaga]

No. The Confederacy were Democrats.

My family fought for both sides in the war, North and South. I know what battalions and company they were in and what military battles. I believe in honoring dead Americans. Period. And I don’t care if some people 200 years later suddenly get a bug up their ass and decide it’s popular to go graffiti a statue.

Whom did your family fight for? Were they even in America yet? What have your people done for America?

In fact do you even know your own Daddy?

[normalice]

Yeah, and democrats were the conservative party back then. I understand the far right fake news wants to keep you simps from knowing that tidbit of CRT, but it's just a fact, sorry.

[slatyb]

No, why should we have monuments erected to traitors and slaveholders?

[one1wild00]

They will be back or haven't you heard of the saying those that don't Listen to history or try to erase it are doomed to repeat it.

[Jamie05rhs]

That's what I'm afraid of. They're trying to create another civil war. Erasing the evidence of the last one makes another one more likely to happen.

[SignedAutographs]

im glad they were removed, long overdue, and im glad they weren't punished, why? Because unlike you, i have common sense. REPUBLICAN IDIOT

[OddBeMe]

Since the Confeds were traitors…it pissed me off more being there. I hope they’re broken up and used for asphalt for a playground.

[Anonymous]

No, suck it up snowflake. The history isn't erased, the statue is.

[fireforeffect]

Removing a monument does not erase history.