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Don't see a lot of King George statues standing on American soil since the revolution either....even though Britain lost that war...also part of our history

 

Yeah just get rid of history that will fix everything. History whether negative or positive is extremely important. It belongs in a museum. There is a bunch of negative and tragic history shared today but it's still very important

 

Nice Piping Plover!

 

Oh is THAT their point? Oh okay. I thought it was their "beauty". Well, in that case, you'd be totally okay with us painting dicks all over them just to make totally clear that the point is to show that these people were sad losers.

 

sarcasm........I'm not as skilled at it as you but I try......you sense arguments where they don't exist....some call that baiting......that's all fine...what's ironic is your Trump lust that you'll abandon for a post every once in awhile to seem balanced, yet not....the statue issue has never been an issue for me, I've seen a lot of them but I understand why people protest the Confederate icons ..if a church replaces a pagan temple, they usually get rid of the voodoo dolls

 

OK this shit is funny IDGAF what y'all say:

 

He'll love it. Look how skinny he is.

 

This presidency has made Godwin's Law obsolete. Any political discussion now (often justifiably) starts at Nazis and proceeds from there.

 

fuk a bunch of statues. thank god for books. history will be preserved

 

yankee stadium was torn down, did the world forget about ruth and Gehrig and mantle?
edit for a local: or maris?
Ebbotts Field in Brooklynn torn down, team moved to LA, did we forget Jackie Robinson?

 

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

Someone famous said that.
Its true.

 

We progressed past statue-based records when we invented writing.

 

But writing is becoming a lost art. Caligraphy is no longer taught. Hell. My handwriting has gotten worse over the years because I mostly type.
As we morph more and more into a technological world, it becomes faster and thus moire instant, and the past seems to be forgotten.

I'm willing to bet every thing I own that the majority of Antifa members do not know much about our history... REAL history. Most are young and interview as if they know it all but when presented with questions about historical facts, all too often deflect the topic to further their own uninformed agenda.

Im not saying right or wrong about he statues, i'm just saying regardless, we seem to be repeating things rather than studying history to NOT repeat them.

 

I'm willing to bet a majority of American citizens do not know much about our history.

That said, I disagree with Santayana's sentiment that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. Humans are condemned to repeat history, regardless. The same themes keep recurring, history tends to go in cycles (modified for the era). Because until our essential natures change, humans remain humans regardless of the time period with the same concerns and aggressions. In my opinion, though, while history cycles, continued social progress (as I'd define it) serves to reduce the amplitude on those cycles, causing less extreme swings towards violence and hatred. So, in that sense, even if individuals don't have a good memory of their high school history, memory of history tends to get baked into the development of society.