Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Syt]

[Valmy]

Goddamnit how did we get back on this statue bullshit again?

[Admiral Yi]

Statue of Washington spray painted with slave owner in Chicago.

[Syt]

It's not factually wrong.

[The Brain]

It's not factually wrong.

Their style of pizza is morally wrong.

[Josquius]

They nicely sum up the whole point of the protests here

[Syt]

[Zanza]

Related to the statue thing right now:

[crazy canuck]

It is a bit sad that they think it is merely because some group finds the statue offensive.

But false equivalency has never once stopped them, so no reason to be surprised here either.

[Valmy]

This strikes me more about a failure of civics classes than anything else. The Police don't decide whether or not you broke the law, the courts do. If the police magically only ever bothered people who broke the law there would be no need for a trial.

[The Brain]

This strikes me more about a failure of civics classes than anything else. The Police don't decide whether or not you broke the law, the courts do. If the police magically only ever bothered people who broke the law there would be no need for a trial.

How? You don't get a trial when you're dead.

[Valmy]

Statue of Washington spray painted with slave owner in Chicago.

Fair but that statue is not being removed. This is gold to the right wing, it is far easier to get people on their side about statues than about the police killing people. I wish we were not providing them with this distraction, this is their favorite tactic to win these debates: to transfer it to something else. And lives are at stake.

[Syt]

This strikes me more about a failure of civics classes than anything else. The Police don't decide whether or not you broke the law, the courts do. If the police magically only ever bothered people who broke the law there would be no need for a trial.

You're making the wrong assumption. They think that if police bother you you must have broken the law, or at least something to draw attention. They don't consider that just being black can be enough to draw attention.

[Barrister]

You know I was curious if there actually are any statues of Bill Clinton.  He is a kind of polarizing figure even in his time.

So I turned on the Google machine.  Turns out there is a 11 foot high statue of Bill... in Pristina, Kosovo!   They even named the whole street after him.

The only other one I could find was a statue of Bill in downtown Rapid City, South Dakota, where they have a whole bunch of presidential statues as some kind of tourist attraction.


As for Obama, in addition to also having a statue in Rapid City, I found that he has a statue of him in Indonesia as a ten year old boy, and a statue of him and Michelle outside of a Circle K gas station in Tiperary, Ireland.

[Valmy]

Well if anybody should have a statue of Bill it would be Kosovo.

Is that where those statues they want to get rid of are? Rapid City, South Dakota?

I mean if these people will get on board with BLM if we get rid of a few statues I am on board. I am sure Bill and Barry would be to.