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From the Los Angeles Review of Books:
AMERICAN MONUMENTS AND THE RESIDUE OF HISTORY
AUGUST 27, 2017
By John Levi Barnard
… I am not advocating the destruction of the Lincoln Memorial, nor do I mean to imply an equivalence between Lincoln and Lee (or even Lee and Jefferson). But I am suggesting that, in the time of Donald Trump — who literally made his fortune building monuments to himself — we might reconsider the nation’s larger commitment to the monumental celebration of “great” white men altogether.
I am not advocating the destruction of the Lincoln Memorial, I’m just sayin’ … that Lincoln statue, you know, looks awfully white. Know what I’m sayin”?

That person seems to have an upcoming book scheduled for October:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/empire-of-ruin-9780190663599?cc=de&lang=en&
Hmm, I suppose that ties in with the concerns of Zuckerberg’s sister about using antiquity for white supremacy, or whatever.
I am not advocating the destruction of the Lincoln Memorial, I’m just sayin’ … that Lincoln statue, you know, looks awfully white.
They don’t need to change the statue substantially. Just shoot off his nose, so that the Blaxicans living here thousands of years from now can assume that he actually looked like them.
I wonder what it meant to the designers that his arms are resting on fasces, as in fascism. Anything that might justify opprobrium? Could it be construed that way? Fingers are crossed across America.
BTW, Hitler spoke well of Lincoln's centralized govt/anti-state's rights policies. In MEIN KAMPF, Hitler writes that “individual states of the American Union . . . could not have possessed any state sovereignty of their own. For it was not these states that formed the Union, on the contrary it was the Union which formed a great part of such so-called states." This was also Lincoln’s view.
Hitler goes on to say: “Certainly all the states in the world are moving toward a certain unification in their inner organization. And in this Germany will be no exception. Today it is an absurdity to speak of a ‘state sovereignty’ of individual provinces.” And further: “In particular we cannot grant to any individual state within the nation and the state representing it state sovereignty and sovereignty in point of political power."
If a line can be drawn from neo-nazis to Trump, surely one can be drawn from fascism to Lincoln. Who knows where it will go from there?Replies: @Logan
Lincoln believed whites were superior to Blacks so he has to go
America has no place for white supremacy. It is a nation for all freedom loving people and NOT nazis.
These racist statues do not represent the true diverse America
The stages of White erasure:
Stage 1: Confederate Monuments
Stage 2: Jefferson
Stage 3: Lincoln
.
And in case you think that the MLK Memorial is enough…..
So really, when you think about it, the Lincoln Memorial is, in ideological terms, identical to the Confederate Monuments….
#LincolnWasAConfederate
Said before that Trump should nationalize every single Confederate, Union, Founding Father statue and monument. Make it a felony to tamper with, desecrate, destroy, etc. Better nip it in the bud before it gets worse.
Can just see all the cucks like Kristol and Rich Lowry defending Lincoln and Washington once the SJW's demand for their removal.
“we might reconsider the nation’s larger commitment to the monumental celebration of “great” white men altogether. “- John Levi Barnard
At this point, it’s pretty clear we should reconsider our nation’s commitments to men named Levi.
We obviously need another MLK monument, even though there’s already an expensive one in Washington D.C.
At this point, it's pretty clear we should reconsider our nation's commitments to men named Levi.Replies: @Steve Sailer
John Levi Barnard sounds like a 19th Century WASP name.
I for one cannot determine through cursory investigation whether or not the fellow who wrote the article above is Jewish. If so, he's really not fighting stereotypes here.
Exactly.
It also sounds like a 17th century Anglo-Saxon Puritan name.
Judaizing heresy leads directly to pro-Jewish Elites, who will despise almost all 'other' white Christians.Replies: @kaganovitch
A 1st World problem.
All the benefits are great, but what if you did nothing to create or establish them?
To escape the hit to the ego one could make a bunch of nonsense protests or go back to an area without the 1st World benefits.
I wonder what they will choose?
“John Levi Barnard sounds like a 19th Century WASP name.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Lincoln_Sr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Lincoln_Jr.
Lincoln mass murdered American civilians. He is a villain, not a hero. Put John Wilkes Booth on the $5!!!!
This country is turning into a giant version of Lord of the Flies. We don’t need the Lincoln statue. We don’t need the Constitution. We don’t need the Nation. We can stick a pig’s head on a stick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_P._Morton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Woodbury
Sculpture in marble is terribly unwokely white. Rodin knew what was up in deciding to work in bronze.
bronze."
Even in bronze, Jefferson is still evil cracker number one:
https://twitter.com/NRO/status/898290841629769728
Indeed, a Bing (ha ha) search reveals records of several Old Dead White Men bearing the name. http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I35810
I for one cannot determine through cursory investigation whether or not the fellow who wrote the article above is Jewish. If so, he’s really not fighting stereotypes here.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/empire-of-ruin-9780190663599?cc=de&lang=en& Hmm, I suppose that ties in with the concerns of Zuckerberg's sister about using antiquity for white supremacy, or whatever.Replies: @syonredux
Wonder if re-designing America’s monumental architecture in the Gothic Style would help…..probably not……
Barnard has already explained why monuments to MLK aren’t enough:
Clearly, the Lincoln Memorial has gotta come down…..And in its place we need to erect a monument to the WOKEST BLACK MAN OF ALL TIME:Jean-Jacques Dessalines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Dessalines
Those who volunteer themselves as sacrifices on the altar of diversity in the name of the One True Religion are truly the most pious amongst us.
“Donald Trump — who literally made his fortune building monuments to himself ”
Last I heard people paid to live in or play golf in Trump branded monuments. For emphasis, note the word branding. Trump branded monuments also provide private sector jobs and tax revenue, unlike those Lincoln monuments the government runs.
A personal gripe: I resent having to pay the taxes for the upkeep of pagan temples, or any other religious structures. Take a look at the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials and compare with Greco Roman temples to see what I mean. If you like’em fine, patreon.com offers you and people that agree with you a way to fund the upkeep.
I also believe that Jefferson would have objected to the use of his name and image on both money and monuments.
#JesusHadABlackBody
A pagan might respond that perhaps you Christians should remove the "In God We Trust" motto from the national currency. "[Theodore] Roosevelt did not approve of using God's name on coinage and instructed Augustus [!] Saint-Gaudens to not include the motto in his gold eagle and double eagle designs". The original suggestion for the inclusion of The Deity's name on coinage came from the Reverend M.R. Watkinson of Pennsylvania in a letter to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase in 1861. See:
www.coinweek.com/featured-news/in-god-we-trust-a-brief-history/
What was MLK’s position on same-sex marriage? I can’t recall him ever confirming his support for this. Surely we can’t have statues of such a person!
The gay lobby can accept that.
Plus, MLK made gay James Baldwin and gay pedophile Bayard Rustin part of his very select inner circle.
Lincoln’s monument should be torn down because he never planned for the post emancipation world of millions of slaves. We still live with the legacy of his lack of direction that has been so aptly referred to as the albatross around America’s neck.
Where would we be today had they built reservations or separate nations for the slaves? What if they had repatriated them to their continent of origin? What if they had been given 40 acres and a mule?
Instead, American inner cities have become their “40 acres” and productive Americans have become their “mule.” And so it will be forever because honest Abe was a poor planner. Thanks bro!
Tear Abe down.
#LincolnWasAConfederate
I find it hilarious that idiots like the Straussians call Lincoln a philosopher. Plato would have seen Lincoln as being the most grubby of Sophists.
To abuse him for not simultaneously preventing all future problems that arose from the 200 previous years of racial issues seems a little harsh.
Reagan won the Cold War. But one result of that victory has been the rise of radical Islam. So Reagan was a horrible planner because he didn't prevent all future problems while solving the existential one he was faced with.
The ultimate goal of these people is not to destroy mere symbols like statues of Lee or the Lincoln Memorial… their goal is destroy the U.S. Constitution and the United States, the greatest monument to white men in all of history.
And sadly, I must say that they are succeeding.
Stage 1: Confederate Monuments
Stage 2: Jefferson Stage 3: Lincoln .
And in case you think that the MLK Memorial is enough..... So really, when you think about it, the Lincoln Memorial is, in ideological terms, identical to the Confederate Monuments....
#LincolnWasAConfederateReplies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi, @TTSSYF
So it’s already starting, and slowly beginning to gain ground. Knew they wouldn’t be satisfied with just taking down the Confederate Battle Flag.
Said before that Trump should nationalize every single Confederate, Union, Founding Father statue and monument. Make it a felony to tamper with, desecrate, destroy, etc. Better nip it in the bud before it gets worse.
Can just see all the cucks like Kristol and Rich Lowry defending Lincoln and Washington once the SJW’s demand for their removal.
Where would we be today had they built reservations or separate nations for the slaves? What if they had repatriated them to their continent of origin? What if they had been given 40 acres and a mule?
Instead, American inner cities have become their "40 acres" and productive Americans have become their "mule." And so it will be forever because honest Abe was a poor planner. Thanks bro!
Tear Abe down.Replies: @syonredux, @Jake, @International Jew, @Logan
Don’t be un-WOKE. We all know what that evil cracker Lincoln had planned for people with Black Bodies: Colonization
#LincolnWasAConfederate
“Sculpture in marble is terribly unwokely white. Rodin knew what was up in deciding to work in
bronze.”
Even in bronze, Jefferson is still evil cracker number one:
PLANET OF THE APES (2001) – Apes On Earth
Every. Single. Time.
No. If anything, the opposite should happen. Private monuments. Sell them to the highest bidders, have them haul them off to private property. The Daughters of the Confederacy want the Lee statue to remain standing? Cut a check and rent a U-Haul, put it in front of your headquarters. The Afrocentrists want a Rosa Parks Memorial? Hit up Oprah, Lebron and Jay-Z to foot the bill, build it on one of their front lawns.
Quit expecting government to solve your problems. You sound like a shitlib.
It all should be returned.Replies: @Pericles
“John Levi Barnard sounds like a 19th Century WASP name.”
Exactly.
It also sounds like a 17th century Anglo-Saxon Puritan name.
Judaizing heresy leads directly to pro-Jewish Elites, who will despise almost all ‘other’ white Christians.
I’ll have you know that the author is from College of Wooster, America’s Premier College for Mentored Undergraduate Research. He isn’t just some guy who fell off a turnip truck. Mentoring takes skills, mad skills, and is often confused with manipulation, thought control and other dark arts of the Progressive nature.
Where would we be today had they built reservations or separate nations for the slaves? What if they had repatriated them to their continent of origin? What if they had been given 40 acres and a mule?
Instead, American inner cities have become their "40 acres" and productive Americans have become their "mule." And so it will be forever because honest Abe was a poor planner. Thanks bro!
Tear Abe down.Replies: @syonredux, @Jake, @International Jew, @Logan
Lincoln, though he only won a couple of elections, was a natural politician in a democratic society: he had a couple of things he deeply believed in, and he would make any deals, which meant he would mislead anyone in any ay that worked, in order to secure passage of his pet idea or two. Lincoln did not think though the long term probabilities of things. He simply acted to get what he wanted at the moment.
I find it hilarious that idiots like the Straussians call Lincoln a philosopher. Plato would have seen Lincoln as being the most grubby of Sophists.
I bet the sealed FBI tapes prove that MLK was pro-pedophile, at least when it was him and under age girls.
The gay lobby can accept that.
Plus, MLK made gay James Baldwin and gay pedophile Bayard Rustin part of his very select inner circle.
Quit expecting government to solve your problems. You sound like a shitlib.Replies: @Jake
An extremely large number of those statues and monuments were paid for by private groups like the UDC and SCV. Many parks and university buildings were paid for by donations from members of those groups.
It all should be returned.
Go ahead. Demolish the Lincoln Memorial. It’s just a monument in the capital of a foreign and hostile empire. Ain’t my country.
#PlanetOfBlackBodies
Too early to reexamine ML King as a “hero” and revise his legacy? Serial philanderer, alleged woman-beater. If he played in the NFL he would be suspended for half the season just on presumption of guilt. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
You have no country, YT. All your counties belong to us
#PlanetOfBlackBodies
Lincoln – according to the fairly well known literary critic Edmund Wilson – like Bismarck and Lenin:
Hmm. How come I don’t remember Carl Sandberg telling me that in high school?
Talk about hate crime. Who does Wilson think he is, comparing the great Abraham to that commie Lenin?
We need to shout him down and burn his books particularly if anybody thinks there is still such a thing as the First Amendment.
Wait a minute. Antifa is communist. And so is Vladimir Ulyanov.
Woo hoo, we home free.
Edmund Wilson was, if not an outright Communist, sympathetic to Marxism and the Soviet Union. One of his best known works, To the Finland Station, is a history of socialism and communism leading up to Lenin's return to Russia to lead the Bolshevik Revolution.Replies: @syonredux, @syonredux
I think what nettles and peeves Mr. Levi Schmevi is that the statues are of white gentile men. And I simply think that’s being honest. Mr. Levi Schmevi might call that anti-Semitic. But I’m way past caring what my enemies think.
Apophasis?
Trump uses it heavily & has definitely popularized the style, compared to the decorum/propriety-obsessed Bushbama era, though he’s infamously deployed the polar alternatives of anti-apophasis (e.g “sending rapists, drug dealers, murderers, and probably some good people”) or goombah litotes (“I like soldiers who didn’t get caught”)
Exactly.
It also sounds like a 17th century Anglo-Saxon Puritan name.
Judaizing heresy leads directly to pro-Jewish Elites, who will despise almost all 'other' white Christians.Replies: @kaganovitch
Yes, the judenfreundlichkeit of the Puritans is the besetting problem of modernity. Funny how it didn’t prevent America from becoming the most successful society in the history of Mankind.
Talk about hate crime. Who does Wilson think he is, comparing the great Abraham to that commie Lenin?We need to shout him down and burn his books particularly if anybody thinks there is still such a thing as the First Amendment.Wait a minute. Antifa is communist. And so is Vladimir Ulyanov.
Woo hoo, we home free.Replies: @Crawfurdmuir, @syonredux
Marxists have always found Lincoln a congenial figure, beginning with Karl Marx himself, who exchanged friendly correspondence with him. American Communists who traveled to Spain to fight for the Communist side in that country’s civil war called themselves the “Abraham Lincoln Brigade.”
Edmund Wilson was, if not an outright Communist, sympathetic to Marxism and the Soviet Union. One of his best known works, To the Finland Station, is a history of socialism and communism leading up to Lenin’s return to Russia to lead the Bolshevik Revolution.
Talk about hate crime. Who does Wilson think he is, comparing the great Abraham to that commie Lenin?We need to shout him down and burn his books particularly if anybody thinks there is still such a thing as the First Amendment.Wait a minute. Antifa is communist. And so is Vladimir Ulyanov.
Woo hoo, we home free.Replies: @Crawfurdmuir, @syonredux
Un-WOKE. Lincoln was a White Supremacist. Don’t slander Lenin by comparing him to the disgusting Lincoln.
It won’t happen Steve. Lincoln is the paragon to emulate put forward by the powers that be: He murdered 600,000 prime age Northern European men.
#BuildMonumentToJohnBrownNow!Replies: @Mr. Anon
Also, they know the truth about ol' Abe, which is that his emancipatin' was exaggerated.
Edmund Wilson was, if not an outright Communist, sympathetic to Marxism and the Soviet Union. One of his best known works, To the Finland Station, is a history of socialism and communism leading up to Lenin's return to Russia to lead the Bolshevik Revolution.Replies: @syonredux, @syonredux
Marx liked Lincoln because Lincoln was a White Supremacist, just like him:
#LincolnAndMarxWereWhiteSupremacists
“Why does America have a commitment to building monuments of ‘great’ white men”
Why is water wet?
Who else are you going to build monuments to but great men? That’s what monumentalization is for. Most great people in American history were white and male. Deal with it.
I despise Lincoln and think he was less than history has recorded him to have been. But he’s inarguably “great.”
They could be asking a more basic question: why do we build monuments at all. But that’s a stupid question, doesn’t need to be asked (except by a two year-old who welds endless chains of “why?” on a daily basis), and I’m pretty sure the LA Review of Books would be fine with monuments to things they appreciate.
Obviously, the Vandals have come to town. They are iconoclasts, because who controls the past controls the future.
That’s where today’s Jews got the snobbery.
Don’t be un-WOKE. Radical Blacks hate Lincoln.If White Allies need a model to emulate, there’s always John Brown
#BuildMonumentToJohnBrownNow!
Last I heard people paid to live in or play golf in Trump branded monuments. For emphasis, note the word branding. Trump branded monuments also provide private sector jobs and tax revenue, unlike those Lincoln monuments the government runs.
A personal gripe: I resent having to pay the taxes for the upkeep of pagan temples, or any other religious structures. Take a look at the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials and compare with Greco Roman temples to see what I mean. If you like'em fine, patreon.com offers you and people that agree with you a way to fund the upkeep.
I also believe that Jefferson would have objected to the use of his name and image on both money and monuments.Replies: @syonredux, @Eustace Tilley (not)
End White Paganism. Build statues to Black Jesus.
#JesusHadABlackBody
Too bad they didn’t also acquire the feeling of noblesse oblige….
Edmund Wilson was, if not an outright Communist, sympathetic to Marxism and the Soviet Union. One of his best known works, To the Finland Station, is a history of socialism and communism leading up to Lenin's return to Russia to lead the Bolshevik Revolution.Replies: @syonredux, @syonredux
To be serious for a moment, I’m afraid that that’s something of an exaggeration. Marx authored a letter that was sent to Lincoln in the name of of the International Working Men’s Association, and Lincoln responded. I don’t think that that qualifies as a correspondence, friendly of otherwise.
You’re off on your perception of Lincoln. Blacks are always down on Lincoln,same as they’re down on movies about brave whites during the civil rights movement. Because blacks want it known that all good things to do with blacks were accomplished by blacks alone. They don’t need anyone, because blackness is all!
Also, they know the truth about ol’ Abe, which is that his emancipatin’ was exaggerated.
Well of course, non-Whites feel their oats after Obama and figure, they are the majority now (they are probably right) and can make Whites essentially serfs if not slaves in their own country. White slavery or at least the attempt at it is coming soon to you.
That will touch off the most long-running, sustained act of violence since the Thirty Years War, only with a fig leaf of pretend government presiding over anarcho-tyranny breaking down as the competent cops and soldiers are led off to gulags. Or Google-lags.
The future is fifteen vibrant youths chasing down some White man … who in turn sets his killer pocket drones printed with 3-d printers and plans from the interwebs armed with synthetic neurotoxins upon his pursuers. The most primal killing fields up against the most inventive ways to counter-kill your enemy before he kills you.
They did, they’re just not obliged to us.
Oh he’s advocating for the monument’s destruction alright and someone will do it.
The end of monument destruction is just the end of the beginning and means they’ll move on to the next phase – book burning at colleges and blog shuttering.
These people are not going to stop. They establishment is using them to punish us and they’re going all the way. Why do you think Sessions and the local police rolled over like a dead gold fish rather that confront them?
Once they get to that Fahrenheit 451 phase, they will start coming for us or bait us into attacking them. The establishment wants a bloody push back from us to authorize to suspend the 1st through 5th amendments in the name of peace and life or some such c**p.
Basically dispense with the illusion we’re a republic and not a oligarchy.
What on earth is going on with the tsunami of Jewish stereotypical self parody?
Hell, even Sam Harris has started doing it.
It all should be returned.Replies: @Pericles
Good point.
So what’s the take away here. Today’s upper class white men think America should focus less on stale, pale males from previous eras, and more on the needs and whims of hip, liberal upper class white men like Mr Levi. Got it.
Notice how none of these anti-white, white elites want to introduce a 1970s-style supertax on billionaires. Wouldn’t that be a more progressive way to reduce the power of over-privileged white male elites?
Stage 1: Confederate Monuments
Stage 2: Jefferson Stage 3: Lincoln .
And in case you think that the MLK Memorial is enough..... So really, when you think about it, the Lincoln Memorial is, in ideological terms, identical to the Confederate Monuments....
#LincolnWasAConfederateReplies: @Yojimbo/Zatoichi, @TTSSYF
MLK regularly violated one of the ten commandments by committing adultery on a regular basis. If we’re going to take down statues of flawed individuals, I say take them all down. And while we’re at it, let’s change street names back to their original names which, in the case of my city, would be Grand Central Blvd instead of Kennedy Blvd. Even sounds better — much more inclusive.
My favorite 19th Century name was Philander Chase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philander_Chase
#BuildMonumentToJohnBrownNow!Replies: @Mr. Anon
John Brown: the original BLM and BAMN activist. Well, not counting Nat Turner, that is.
Where would we be today had they built reservations or separate nations for the slaves? What if they had repatriated them to their continent of origin? What if they had been given 40 acres and a mule?
Instead, American inner cities have become their "40 acres" and productive Americans have become their "mule." And so it will be forever because honest Abe was a poor planner. Thanks bro!
Tear Abe down.Replies: @syonredux, @Jake, @International Jew, @Logan
The challenge of living with our black minority has also been good for us. It’s kept us on our toes. It’s served as a damper on the welfare state (unlike Sweden, we couldn’t go all out because we had this population that was bound to abuse it). It’s probably preserved what’s left of the Second Amendment. As we enter this new age of explosive population growth in the 3rd World, the US just might be better equipped to survive.
Same way the Arab minority has kept the Israelis on their toes.
Still, I would rather have seen the trillions spent on our dusky wards advancing science, creating better infrastructure, exploring space, etc etc etc.
I think you may be right. But being a native new yorker of a certain age I actually watched the process of the bright young things from the heartland arrive in NYC and be indoctrinated into the jewish intellectual hegemony.Of course this began in the 1800s and continues today. John Reed for if I recall joined the communist club at harvard where he met its founder a famous jew, reed went from there to infect several prominent and influential arts communities.one of those communities was theatre related which my parents became a part of through stella adler. Our house was a sort of hub of the nyc theatre scene and dominated by jews who I grew up to love and admire and notice things about.One thing I noticed is they never saw themselves as us, they always always had side conversations going sometimes whispered to a child’s volume, sometimes when a bit drunk or feeling particularly comfortable, or particularly vexed out loud.what did they say. Lets just say an anti semitic conspiracist couldn’t wish for more damning evidence. later i found this went on in all the jewish dominated field I encountered academia, real estate, law, finance. It was always them against us, sometimes it was less political and more economic.This idea that WASPs are the real marxists never rang true. What I saw was wasps wanted to do good build good institutions jews wanted to undermine. jewish leftism is different it seems to subtly subvert good leftism using its own principles and make it morbid leftism.abolition vs black panthers, suffragettes vs today’s feminism,abolishing workhouses vs communism.
You beat me to it, David. Eventually, those fasces — plus the points our ever-helpful “Tiny Duck” brought up — WILL provide a pretext. These people never stop. There is no real endgame.
BTW, Hitler spoke well of Lincoln’s centralized govt/anti-state’s rights policies. In MEIN KAMPF, Hitler writes that “individual states of the American Union . . . could not have possessed any state sovereignty of their own. For it was not these states that formed the Union, on the contrary it was the Union which formed a great part of such so-called states.” This was also Lincoln’s view.
Hitler goes on to say: “Certainly all the states in the world are moving toward a certain unification in their inner organization. And in this Germany will be no exception. Today it is an absurdity to speak of a ‘state sovereignty’ of individual provinces.” And further: “In particular we cannot grant to any individual state within the nation and the state representing it state sovereignty and sovereignty in point of political power.”
If a line can be drawn from neo-nazis to Trump, surely one can be drawn from fascism to Lincoln. Who knows where it will go from there?
Last I heard people paid to live in or play golf in Trump branded monuments. For emphasis, note the word branding. Trump branded monuments also provide private sector jobs and tax revenue, unlike those Lincoln monuments the government runs.
A personal gripe: I resent having to pay the taxes for the upkeep of pagan temples, or any other religious structures. Take a look at the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials and compare with Greco Roman temples to see what I mean. If you like'em fine, patreon.com offers you and people that agree with you a way to fund the upkeep.
I also believe that Jefferson would have objected to the use of his name and image on both money and monuments.Replies: @syonredux, @Eustace Tilley (not)
Classical buildings (such as the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials) are not “pagan temples”. There are lots of Christian churches built in the Classical style; there are many more Classical buildings (such as the Pantheon in Rome) that were originally pagan temples but then “culturally appropriated” by the Christians. (Nobody had a problem with it back then, since colleges hadn’t been invented yet).
A pagan might respond that perhaps you Christians should remove the “In God We Trust” motto from the national currency. “[Theodore] Roosevelt did not approve of using God’s name on coinage and instructed Augustus [!] Saint-Gaudens to not include the motto in his gold eagle and double eagle designs”. The original suggestion for the inclusion of The Deity’s name on coinage came from the Reverend M.R. Watkinson of Pennsylvania in a letter to Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase in 1861. See:
http://www.coinweek.com/featured-news/in-god-we-trust-a-brief-history/
Looks like the sainted “Immigrants” and “Sons of Immigrants” and “Grand-sons of Immigrants” are on the march. Being better than native born Americans they have decided to get rid of the WASP “racist” and socially inferior monuments and political Icons.
Do WASPS really care? I don’t think so. As long as they have beer and football they’re happy. Notice how McCain, Bush, Romney, and Dole haven’t said a word in protest.
Yeah, too much information today about people to venerate anyone. I’ve been told MLK advocated conversion therapy for Gays. Plus, as an advocate for his ethnic/racial group, I suspect he may become a rallying point for the wrong kind of ethnic/racial group. Better be safe and frontlash against all icons.
Maybe Missus Zuck could bring in a team of Google, YouTube, and Facebook differently abled lesbian tranny Eskimo furry software engineers to paint it up in Colors Like The Ancients Actually Used.
Rainbows iber alle!
Interesting angle. Sports, music, entertainment are benefits also.
Still, I would rather have seen the trillions spent on our dusky wards advancing science, creating better infrastructure, exploring space, etc etc etc.
BTW, Hitler spoke well of Lincoln's centralized govt/anti-state's rights policies. In MEIN KAMPF, Hitler writes that “individual states of the American Union . . . could not have possessed any state sovereignty of their own. For it was not these states that formed the Union, on the contrary it was the Union which formed a great part of such so-called states." This was also Lincoln’s view.
Hitler goes on to say: “Certainly all the states in the world are moving toward a certain unification in their inner organization. And in this Germany will be no exception. Today it is an absurdity to speak of a ‘state sovereignty’ of individual provinces.” And further: “In particular we cannot grant to any individual state within the nation and the state representing it state sovereignty and sovereignty in point of political power."
If a line can be drawn from neo-nazis to Trump, surely one can be drawn from fascism to Lincoln. Who knows where it will go from there?Replies: @Logan
You simply cannot draw a line from fascism to Lincoln. Chronological issues.
Doesn’t even work for the statue, since it was designed before anybody had heard of fascism.
The fasces, prior to the emergence of the movement named after it, simply stood for the legitimate power and authority of the State.
Where would we be today had they built reservations or separate nations for the slaves? What if they had repatriated them to their continent of origin? What if they had been given 40 acres and a mule?
Instead, American inner cities have become their "40 acres" and productive Americans have become their "mule." And so it will be forever because honest Abe was a poor planner. Thanks bro!
Tear Abe down.Replies: @syonredux, @Jake, @International Jew, @Logan
Abe was forced into a crisis not of his choosing. He saved the Union. Regardless of whether you consider that a good thing or not, I think it’s very nearly self-evident that with some other man in the office the Union would not have been saved.
To abuse him for not simultaneously preventing all future problems that arose from the 200 previous years of racial issues seems a little harsh.
Reagan won the Cold War. But one result of that victory has been the rise of radical Islam. So Reagan was a horrible planner because he didn’t prevent all future problems while solving the existential one he was faced with.
Thank you for posting this.