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New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures

posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the to-be-replaced-by-piles-of-beignets dept.

butthurt writes:

A 2015 New Orleans Times-Picayune article tells how New Orléans' Vieux Carré Commission recommended that four monuments be removed. Three of them honour

[...] Confederate generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy [...]

The other monument

[...] was erected in 1891 to honor the 16 members of the White League who died during an insurrection against the integrated Reconstructionist government in Louisiana, which was based in New Orleans at the time.

Various news outlets are reporting that the latter monument, an obelisk, has been dismantled at the behest of the city government, and that the others are also set to be dismantled.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jdavidb on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:38PM (4 children)

    by jdavidb (5690) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:38PM (#503978) Homepage Journal

    Obviously, people like you want to bring back slavery.

    Isn't that a false dichotomy?

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:44PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:44PM (#503989)

    Slaves had guaranteed employment, free food and housing, couldn't be laid off. Maybe there's something to this slavery idea.

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:03PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:03PM (#504001)

      Maybe if SoylentNews bought some slaves to do the needful coding, SN could stop begging for money on the front page.

      • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:27PM (1 child)

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:27PM (#504005) Homepage

        You can get good slaves of African origin and from Libya for 'round $200-$500 a pop. [dw.com]

        Though teaching them Perl might be a problem, if they're anything like us, they'd rather take a bullet to the head than be forced to learn Perl.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:37PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:37PM (#504011)

          Rehash is an established codebase, hence the name. It's not like the gitslaves would need to learn how to code from scratch.