TLHLIM
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I’ve never once had a conversation with a Palestinian person to my recollection and certainly not about Palestine. Yet I believe on my own that Palestinian citizens are having war crimes committed against them. I’m not a crazy or bad person who would murder others based on that belief, but I got it without being radicalized by international students at a college campus. The existence of these students is not causing mass shootings. Shooters are.
While I think MAGA is far too confident in the support for its lawlessness and cruelty, Dems have also misread the room. The fight should be to afford this person due process and get his ass out of El Salvador as basically the entire judicial branch at this point has unanimously and increasingly rather contemptuously told Trump.
But I don’t actually think his removal from the country is unwarranted, and while I’ll always endorse treating others with compassion, I’m not sure we need the human interest pieces.
Bad things happen to all people, whether they’ve done mostly good or bad in their lives. We can advocate for all of them to receive justice from government overreach without trying to paint it as more than it is.
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Unless Merrick Garland has been around for several hundred years longer than I thought, I don’t think undoing his policies will lead to arrests of journalists. There’s plenty of actual illegal and unconstitutional stuff happening in this Administration, let’s maybe cool it on pretending others are.
That said, the Trump Admin brings a hammer to basically every task it seems, so hopefully they don’t go scorched earth on journalists to go after leakers (that don’t exist because they’re actually all lies according to them).
Don’t know who that is, but why not? All statues are dumb to me to begin with, but what’s the issue here?why??
I think you’re off on this one personally. Statues are just works of art and their value is subjective. Black women are a part of the cultural fabric of New York City, even if not through merit. If you think the aesthetic of the city is ruined because a giant piece of bronze or whatever was cut into a less attractive body shape than has been traditionally carved by sculptors, I’d say you’re the person virtue signaling here.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there was a big announcement and people are going to pretend this statue is some important thing when it absolutely is not, but I do find the argument that anything is ruined or that a statue must be built to commemorate some accomplishment to be just as misguided.
Meh, I think you’re just being weirdly rigid about the erection of statues (I didn’t intend this pun but I do enjoy it upon re-reading). I’m not asking you to personally enjoy this statue or anything, but I think you’re being willfully obtuse about this. What is a mural or an abstract sculpture meant to signify? What have random geometric shapes accomplished to have had statues of them erected in basically every city?
For some reason, people have largely decided that various art projects are worth putting up in public, and some of that art is going to be more aesthetically pleasing or culturally significant to some people than it is to others.
And for the record, while I’m absolutely willing to support the removal of statues of people like Columbus or Confederate figures, I don’t find it necessary or important to do so. Statues can’t hurt people, and I don’t care if one continues to exist or not. So this statue isn’t something I’m defending from “the left” but rather from my belief that people are often just weird about public art.