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Home Front: Culture Wars
Trump says US culture 'ripped apart' by statue removals
2017-08-18
He is right, yet again. So he'll be castigated for it in the strongest possible terms by the posturing pustules yet again.
[Al Jazeera] President Donald Trump said the history and culture of the United States were being "ripped apart" by the removal of statues memorialising the Confederate era.

"Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments," Trump wrote Thursday on Twitter.

"You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next. Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!" Trump added.

Trump's latest tweets pile more fuel on a political firestorm ignited by the president's attempts to shift blame for the deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to anti-racism counter-protesters.
Posted by:Fred

#5  On mis-use of past cultures:
Mark Twain reported in his 1869 travelogue The Innocents Abroad (Hartford, Conn.) that mummies were burned like coal to produce steam on the rail line from Cairo to Alexandria (176–77).

Mummies in Nineteenth Century America: Ancient Egyptians as Artifacts
Posted by: 3dc   2017-08-18 11:11  

#4  ...sorry, we're past that one.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-08-18 08:13  

#3  who's next. Washington, Jefferson?

'What's' next? The U.S. Constitution.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-08-18 07:36  

#2  They are the Taliban of the U.S.A.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-18 07:22  

#1  These peeps can only destroy what have been built by others. They have not produced a single thing.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2017-08-18 03:56  

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