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To destroy a monument is to desecrate our common inheritance. In recent weeks, in the midst of protests across America, many monuments have been vandalized or destroyed. Some local governments have responded by taking their monuments down. Among others, monuments to Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Scott Key, Ulysses S. Grant, leaders of the abolitionist movement, the first all-volunteer African-American regiment of the Union Army in the Civil War, and American soldiers killed in the First and Second World Wars have been vandalized, destroyed, or removed.

These statues are not ours alone, to be discarded at the whim of those inflamed by fashionable political passions; they belong to generations that have come before us and to generations yet unborn. My Administration will not abide an assault on our collective national memory. In the face of such acts of destruction, it is our responsibility as Americans to stand strong against this violence, and to peacefully transmit our great national story to future generations through newly commissioned monuments to American heroes.

Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jul 3 2020 10:04pm)

Isnt the corona situation in Mexico also a total disaster? :D



In my impression, the complaints were about the actual rioting, looting and arson which took place alongside the protests, not about the peaceful part of the protests.

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Executive Order on Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-building-rebuilding-monuments-american-heroes/






You go, Trump. :D

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Executive Order on Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-building-rebuilding-monuments-american-heroes/






You go, Trump. :D

Quote (Goomshill @ Jul 3 2020 10:47pm)

Okay I got a legit chuckle out of this EO.
That's the best response to this antisculptist movement I've seen yet
You tear one down, we'll put ten up.

also

(iv) All statues in the National Garden should be lifelike or realistic representations of the persons they depict, not abstract or modernist representations.

YES YES YES

FUCK YOU MODERN ART

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I often wonder what people like you would have thought during the american revolution.

"Those awful rioters throwing tea into the harbour! Oh how dreadful!"

Pussy.

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There's a world of a difference between a united people rebelling against a foreign ruler, and rioters beating up their own neighbors, looting their stores and setting their houses on fire.

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Republicans "You should have gone to art school you stupid fucking liberal compsci major!"

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Its more like "you should have learned how to make real art, not gone to a liberal art school and learned how to make feelings"

they teach modernist and postmodernist garbage that's been poisoning our nation's art and culture for decades now and basically resulted in what will be known as a dark period of US artistic history. Nobody in the future will line up at museums and exhibits to see late 20th / early 21st century depictions of amorphic blobs molded into non-euclidean geometric shapes and titled "My feelies". But the statue of a dying gaul will still be world famous.