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T. Paine's avatar

They tried that crap in San Antonio with the Alamo and the monument to the defenders. It didn’t fly. People showed up with long rifles to defend it from any woke morons who thought they’d get froggy. You see, the names on the monument were inconvenient to their lie, and include several Hispanics and at least one black.

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In early March 2020, a bell was removed from Tulane campus. It had stood outside the convocation hall for 60 years, and generations of students had used the bell as a good-luck symbol. But its provenance couldn’t be verified. It MIGHT have been used to call slaves in and out of the fields on a plantation. No one knew exactly where the bell came from. So even though thousands of students, black and white, had looked on the bell as a school symbol (meeting there when the basketball team won, for example) it couldn’t be seen as a unifying symbol. Like everything woke, there was no redemption. Out it went. The next weekend the Covid misery started so the removal was just swept away.

An empty pedestal sits outside now. Like everything woke, these beautiful monuments are replaced with emptiness.

I know it’s small but it is so emblematic of this problem.

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