Confederate flag/statue banning thread

[Aribeth Zelin]

It's now been removed, and is waiting to be either collected by the artist or donated to the local museum

Black Lives Matter sculpture of Jen Reid removed from Colston plinth

One could also make the point that female artists are rarely afforded the same abilities as male ones [as someone who studyied sculpting in college, I've yet to be able to afford to do anything on this scale; instead I'm limited to polymer clays or soft fibres that are in range of my budget....]

 

[Soen Eber]

One could also make the point that female artists are rarely afforded the same abilities as male ones [as someone who studyied sculpting in college, I've yet to be able to afford to do anything on this scale; instead I'm limited to polymer clays or soft fibres that are in range of my budget....]

Do you have a website with your works?

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Do you have a website with your works?

Well, I've a webpage with some of my felted stuff and jewelry. Not that I'm nominating myself, I haven't worked with bronze since college. www.foxscalesjewelry.com though, if you want to see a felted hand, tree and bunnies [the tree and hand are for displaying jewelry], because that's all I've gotten around to taking pictures of because covid....

 

[Free]

www.foxscalesjewelry.com

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

*blushes* I sold the cinnabun in the picture at Coastcon right before everything [sorta] shut down. Also learned I need to make a sign for the next time warning people that they are made of wool... >.>

 

[Spirits Rising]

Those
Bunnies
Are
ADORABLE!

Squeeeeeeeeeee!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Dambusters dog's racial slur gravestone altered by RAF

Dog’s name was on headstone at base of 617 Squadron, which carried out wartime raid

www.theguardian.com

Before and after pictures in the local paper:

Headstone of Dambusters hero Guy Gibson's dog replaced

It's name was very controversial by modern day standards

www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk

 

[Soen Eber]

I get that comedy can get lost in a thread like this, but...

Hey, I'm for a full Cromwell on that guy. Drawing, quartering, burying the head, hands, and feet separately, the whole works. What's wrong with him can't be fixed with a pill or counselling, he's that way because he chose it.

 

[Free]

Hey, I'm for a full Cromwell on that guy.

Ewww.

 

[Free]

DING DING DING!

Pentagon effectively bans Confederate flags on all military property

"The flags we fly must accord with the military imperatives of good order and discipline, treating all our people with dignity and respect," Esper wrote.

www.politico.com

The Pentagon on Friday unveiled a new policy that effectively bans the display of the Confederate flag — without actually naming it.

The policy, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO ahead of the official rollout, reflects an effort to find a compromise on the divisive issue, as Defense Secretary Mark Esper strives to satisfy military leaders without irking President Donald Trump, who has criticized NASCAR for banning the flag.

A draft version of the policy reportedly explicitly banned the Confederate flag on Defense Department property. Yet the official language simply lists the types of flags that are allowed to be displayed, including the American flag; the flags of the U.S. states, territories and the District of Columbia; military flags and those of allies.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Related

Statues are lies, selfies in bronze – and you can't bring history to life with a dead art

Why are we obsessed with putting up statues of new heroes to replace old villains like Edward Colston? Reducing history to celebrity culture won’t help anyone understand the full scale and horror of slavery

www.theguardian.com

 

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Senate Approves Proposal To Strip Confederate Names From Army Bases By Veto-Proof Majority

The Senate overwhelmingly approved a defense bill on Thursday that included Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) provision requiring the military to...

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(I know you've already posted this, Innula. I posted it in the right place. *nods*)

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Has Columbus Statue Removed From Grant Park in Middle of the Night

Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered the removal of the statue from Grant Park in the middle of the night.

www.thedailybeast.com

Though I did think of putting it in the other thread because

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered the removal of a statue of Christopher Columbus from the city’s Grant Park in the middle of the night to avoid a confrontation between police and protesters, the Chicago Tribune reports.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Confederate memorials quietly removed from Virginia Capitol overnight

Robert E. Lee, other Confederate statues removed from Virginia Capitol overnight - The Washington Post

Virginia Politics Confederate memorials quietly removed from Virginia Capitol overnight Workers roll a bust of Stonewall Jackson past a statue of Robert E. Lee in the Old House Chamber inside the Virg...

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[Aribeth Zelin]

So, in Pensacola, we were actually Union most of the war [ its a fascinating story, but a bit convoluted]. After the war, the Gov of Florida ordered, against the will of the locals, a monument to the Confederate Dead, topped by a statue. IIRC, the statue has been taken down and the monument itself is being moved to a cemetary.

And regardless of anything else, most rank and file soldiers are just following orders; and in this case, think a whole lot of poor people were manipulated into dying for a cause that didn't care about them at all [and that's nothing new].

 

[Innula Zenovka]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/28/alabama-republican-lewis-kkk/

Alabama GOP lawmaker faces calls to resign after celebrating KKK leader’s birthday amid tributes to John Lewis - The Washington Post

Race and Reckoning Politics Attorney General Barr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee. WNBA Brittney Griner, Brianna Turner call for WNBA to stop playing national anth... National Live upda...

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When reached by WSFA, Dismukes reiterated that he had not been thinking about Lewis’s death at the time or the connection between Forrest and the KKK. But the lawmaker — who is a chaplain for the Prattville Dragoons, a chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans — attributed the intense blowback he’s facing to “anti-Southern sentiment” amid the country’s ongoing racial reckoning.

“I guess, with the anti-Southern sentiment and all, and the things that we have going on in the world today, there’s a lot of people that are seeming to be more and more offended,” he told the news station. “We live in a time where we literally are going through cancel culture from all different areas and people are even more sensitive on different issues and different subjects. This was just one of those times that it didn’t quite go the way I expected, and I never intended to bring hurt to anyone, especially my own family with everything that’s been said.”

Siri, what is Backpfeifengesicht ?

 

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>> Rep. Will Dismukes (R-Prattville)

If I made up this guy for a story, who could find him believable?

 

[Khamon]

>> Rep. Will Dismukes (R-Prattville)

If I made up this guy for a story, who could find him believable?

Anyone who lives in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, or Texas. We live and deal with these people every day. They are hateful, and dangerous, and quite real.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Very interesting and thoughtful piece in the London Review of Books.

It's about British attitudes to Britain's imperial and colonial history, but I think the arguments and analysis apply equally to the US and slavery.

The problem right now – exacerbated by the circumstances of the pandemic – is that when the past is the object of political conflict, the result is a tribunal convened to determine, once again, a binary question: guilt or innocence. Where the study of history might seek to discover, explain and understand, possibly to facilitate judgment, our current moment demands decision first, study later (if at all). Many conservatives imagine that when the British Empire and colonialism are taught in schools, it’s in order to spread shame or seek revenge, not because they are central features of the political, economic and social history of the past five hundred years. No doubt there are some activists, maybe even some scholars, whose primary relationship to this material is a passion for condemnation, but to abandon such an opportunity for public education on those grounds represents a terrible loss of nerve. What Britain sorely needs is not self-love, or self-hatred, but self-knowledge.

William Davies · Who am I prepared to kill? The Politics of Like and Dislike · LRB 30 July 2020

It’s not only that cultural and political polarisation makes it harder for different ‘sides’ to understand one...

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William Davies · Who am I prepared to kill? The Politics of Like and Dislike · LRB 30 July 2020

William Davies · Who am I prepared to kill? The Politics of Like and Dislike · LRB 30 July 2020 In the late 1920s, the political philosopher and jurist Carl Schmitt, subsequently to join the Nazi Par...

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