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posted by FatPhil on Tuesday August 22 2017, @04:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-could-tar-and-feather-them dept.

The President of the University of Texas at Austin released a letter regarding the removal of statues on the campus.

[...] The University of Texas at Austin is a public educational and research institution, first and foremost. The historical and cultural significance of the Confederate statues on our campus — and the connections that individuals have with them — are severely compromised by what they symbolize. Erected during the period of Jim Crow laws and segregation, the statues represent the subjugation of African Americans. That remains true today for white supremacists who use them to symbolize hatred and bigotry.

The University of Texas at Austin has a duty to preserve and study history. But our duty also compels us to acknowledge that those parts of our history that run counter to the university's core values, the values of our state and the enduring values of our nation do not belong on pedestals in the heart of the Forty Acres.

The issue isn't a new one, they first looked into the issue in 2015, and had a wide range of options including effectively turning the mall into an open air museum, which they eventually decided against. Should the statues be relocated from their historical context just because of the attitudes and behaviour of noisy minorities? (Your humble editor cannot forget the local riots when a historical but hostile-themed statue was relocated.)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 22 2017, @05:55PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 22 2017, @05:55PM (#557601)

    Yeah and they whoever buys them will be labeled WACIST, and their property will be vandalized, they and their family will receive death threats, and might come to physical harm at the hands of the "tolerant" leftists. The Bolshevik Left played their cards so often EVERYONE sees their hand. It's got many cards, but all look the same.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 22 2017, @06:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 22 2017, @06:28PM (#557618)

    I don't agree with such violence, but the following phrase does seem fitting. "Turnabout is fair play."

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 22 2017, @08:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 22 2017, @08:07PM (#557693)

    "Right" and "Left" are ECONOMIC positions.
    Here is "Left" (AKA Socialism):
    The collective ownership of the means of production by the workers.

    Can you link to an example of a group which is involved in this confrontation whose major concern is Anti-Capitalism?

    N.B. *Good* descriptors for the sides in this wold be Reactionaries/Authoritarians vs Progressives.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 23 2017, @06:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 23 2017, @06:48PM (#558121)

    Sounds like good bait. If i had the money i'd buy one and put it in the middle of a large field. Then we could see who bagged the most trespassers in an evening and give out prizes.