George Floyd Statues Vandilized in Brooklyn, Newark

Post Reply New Topic

WABC-7

those racist fascist vandals are murders of hope, murders of spirit, murderers of mind. they deserve to have an example made of themselves.

Not that shocking given the current climate.

I wont be surprised when this gets compared to confederate statues being vandalized and torn down.

IMHO those would do such a thing lack a basic sense of decency. IOW they can't comprehend shame.

Its like any racist, they don't care till they get caught on camera.

it is all about THEM and THEM ONLY.

I thought these things only happened in the south.

Just like when I thought only racism happened down south back in the days.

So?
Lots of statues were vandalized and even toppled last year and most of you seemed to support it.
Even statues of abolitionists from the Civil War era were vandalized. So when is it OK to vandalize and when is it not? Or is it all subjective?

Well somebody has to do this

Copycats are a thing. Over the last year this method of political expression has become somewhat normalized and excused. Objections to this tactic have been mocked. Once the bar was lowered it was inevitable that this tactic would be used on statues people on the left admire.


I personally do not think George Floyd deserves statues. There is his substantial criminal record. That argument is not a dealbreaker. I have always argued that in some cases keeping monuments to really bad people is warranted because monuments celebrate the extraordinary accomplishments. It has been argued that George Floyd ignited arguably the most widespread political protest movement in American history that has changed history by radically changing how people view American history and America today. The problem is George Floyd did no such thing, he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. If you must replace and replace the sculptures of the Presidents on top of Mt. Rushmore with the founders of Black Lives Matter, Ibram X. Kendi, and Robin DeAngelo. In the park below have representations of the peaceful protesters and the rioters. While I would despise that, these are the people that actually accomplished the change.

None of the above changes my desire that whomever did this gets caught and given the maximum so that they be made an example of. While I agree that it would be unfair and a double standard of the highest order, the long road from mob rule has to start somewhere.

Last edited by ASPartOfMe on 26 Jun 2021, 9:04 am, edited 3 times in total.

Give them 22.5 years and they can rot in prison with Chauvin.

The statues are a legacy to i) Floyd's suffering and ii) police corruption in the US, Not a legacy to Floyd himself (99.9% of protestors only know of his death not his life).

They are mean't to be symbolic.

Let's see here, maybe they can be charged with federal hate crimes. If so Oak Park Heights accepts federal offenders, so they might be incarcerated together.

That opinion is mine, not League_Girl's.

A statue honors a person. They are not knocking down Christopher Columbus's statues not because of what European explorers in general did, they are taking them down because of what he did.

George Floyd statue dedicated at Newark City Hall

Ron De Santis (Trump Stalwart) passed a law that people who deface public statues or art should be charged.

Look forward to these vandals getting found and charged like this MAGA idiot defacing a memorial to the victims of the Post nightclub shooting



Catch Nazis....catch them all