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RayR Offline
#1 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2022, 11:17 AM EST
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OMG! Tear it down! Tear it all down! The building is a monument to enslavers and traitors!!!! CryingMad

Washington Post 'exclusive' finds U.S. Capitol 'honors' 140 'enslavers' in artwork

The Washington Post 'exclusive' mocked on Twitter: 'Change your name or pipe down'

By Lindsay Kornick | Fox News
Published December 28, 2022 9:34pm EST

Quote:
The Washington Post promoted what it considered an "exclusive" history piece by staff writer Gillian Brockell on Wednesday about how many slave owners and Confederate figures are depicted in various artworks at the U.S. Capitol.

The piece originally came out on Tuesday and documented that out of the hundreds of paintings and sculptures located within the entire building, almost one-third of them featured someone who owned slaves, likely owned slaves or served in the Confederacy.

"When the 118th Congress is sworn in on Jan. 3, its members will walk the halls of a building whose paintings and statues pay homage to 141 enslavers," Brockell wrote. "As part of a year-long investigation into Congress’s relationship with slavery, The Washington Post analyzed more than 400 artworks in the U.S. Capitol building, from the Crypt to the ceiling of the Capitol Rotunda, and found that one-third honor enslavers or Confederates. Another six honor possible enslavers — people whose slaveholding status is in dispute."

The article was later promoted on the Washington Post’s official Twitter account on Wednesday.

"Exclusive: A Washington Post investigation of more than 400 artworks in the U.S. Capitol building found that nearly one-third honor enslavers or Confederates," the paper tweeted.

Several Twitter users quickly mocked this report for being an "exclusive" as well as the irony of the publication being named after George Washington who owned slaves.

"lololol i sorta love that an article based entirely on publicly available information and pacing around the capitol with a notepad is being promoting as ‘exclusive’, as if archeologists opened king tut's tomb for the first time and granted them special access," Washington Examiner columnist Becket Adams joked.

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-exclusive-finds-u-s-capitol-honors-140-enslavers-artwork
DrafterX Offline
#2 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2022, 11:31 AM EST
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Those bassards..!! Mad
ZRX1200 Offline
#3 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2022, 12:03 PM EST
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To be fair, WAPO is tightening their budget since Jeff’s divorce.

Now the yellow journalists can afford to pretend to do their jobs.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#4 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2022, 12:51 PM EST
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They told me a mask was enough to get into the supermarket. They lied. Apparently you're supposed to wear pants too
Mr. Jones Online
#5 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2022, 10:28 PM EST
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Destroy ALL "RACIST" HISTORIC ART....

CRIES THE MODERN MILLENNIAL DOOO-FUSSS DEMOCRAT
NO BRAIN IDJITS....

WHO DECLARES ANY ART RACIST???

THE ART POLICE POLITBORO???

WHAT A CROCK OF B.S. POLITICALLY CORRECT CRAP ...
frankj1 Offline
#6 Posted: Fri, Dec 30 2022, 11:25 PM EST
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art is actually art, I have always thought it can have admirable qualities of technique and stuff yet still be offensive to individuals for what it is saying...so be it.
The price of free expression, I guess.
I have no plans to hang a pic of R.E. Lee over my mantle.
tailgater Offline
#7 Posted: Sat, Dec 31 2022, 10:45 AM EST
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frankj1 wrote:

I have no plans to hang a pic of R.E. Lee over my mantle.


If you did, that stallion would feel inadequate...
RayR Offline
#8 Posted: Sat, Dec 31 2022, 11:51 AM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
art is actually art, I have always thought it can have admirable qualities of technique and stuff yet still be offensive to individuals for what it is saying...so be it.
The price of free expression, I guess.
I have no plans to hang a pic of R.E. Lee over my mantle.


Frank, the rabid LEFTY crazies including WOKE Generals, and Neocons, destroyers of American culture and history are coming for the Jews too, even desecrating the monument and grave of "noted American sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel, a Confederate veteran and the first Jewish graduate of Virginia Military Institute." Anti-Semites, I think they would be called.
I would think twice about your plans to not hang a pic of Robert E. Lee over your mantle. He was a far more honorable man than they could ever be.

The Arlington National Cemetery Confederate Monument

"The Naming Commission has recommended the removal of the Arlington Confederate Monument. This would not only be a historical travesty and a barbaric leveling of art, it would lay waste to the very message the monument was intended to convey: fraternity, healing, and reconciliation. Tell your Representative you want to stop this heinous act of cultural destruction."

https://youtu.be/IwST0QslHLs
Sunoverbeach Offline
#9 Posted: Sat, Dec 31 2022, 12:03 PM EST
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Does anyone need an ark?

I Noah guy
RayR Offline
#10 Posted: Sat, Dec 31 2022, 3:03 PM EST
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So what do you think SOB? Should those evil peeps who want to destroy famous works of art and desecrate graves burn in hell?
frankj1 Offline
#11 Posted: Sat, Dec 31 2022, 4:43 PM EST
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tailgater wrote:
If you did, that stallion would feel inadequate...


nay nay
borndead1 Offline
#12 Posted: Sat, Dec 31 2022, 10:31 PM EST
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I'm totally OK with removing public monuments to racists. I don't see the problem here.

Put those statues and paintings in a museum.

Mr. Jones Online
#13 Posted: Sat, Dec 31 2022, 11:13 PM EST
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As an Art person with a masters degree in fine arts....

Art is very subjective...

It can mean totally different things to different people...

But, it can also be easily decifered when needED...

This my stance on the O.P.:

If this said art piece is historical and intact...at the very least it is worthy of preservation...if not publically displayed ...
It can still be historically important...if it is blatant racist? Then maybe remove it if on canvas or Masonite...if on a capital bldg wall as a fresco....

WELLLLL,
That gets into a whole nother' argument realm.....
frankj1 Offline
#14 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 12:40 AM EST
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Mr. Jones wrote:
As an Art person with a masters degree in fine arts....

Art is very subjective...

It can mean totally different things to different people...

But, it can also be easily decifered when needED...

This my stance on the O.P.:

If this said art piece is historical and intact...at the very least it is worthy of preservation...if not publically displayed ...
It can still be historically important...if it is blatant racist? Then maybe remove it if on canvas or Masonite...if on a capital bldg wall as a fresco....

WELLLLL,
That gets into a whole nother' argument realm.....

it can be art for art's sake.
It does not have to be revered, but it will always represent a time and a view of the world whether popular or not.
It's art and art should live forever.

borndead is right. Put it in a museum, but never destroy it.
HockeyDad Offline
#15 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 9:36 AM EST
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If the Federal Committee for Appropriate Art deems the art as offensive, the art should be removed and destroyed.

(This statement is approved by the Ministry of Truth)
RayR Offline
#16 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 10:13 AM EST
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borndead1 wrote:
I'm totally OK with removing public monuments to racists. I don't see the problem here.

Put those statues and paintings in a museum.



So you are OK with removing the Lincoln Memorial?
You should be if you know real history and your opinions are consistent.
RayR Offline
#17 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 10:43 AM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
it can be art for art's sake.
It does not have to be revered, but it will always represent a time and a view of the world whether popular or not.
It's art and art should live forever.

borndead is right. Put it in a museum, but never destroy it.



So let me get this straight...you are OK with desecrating Moses Jacob Ezekiel's grave and removing the monument he sculpted, that he's buried in front of, a monument commemorating those Confederate soldiers buried at Arlington who died defending their home and country from Yankee invaders? I know, you probably learned in skool that your Jewish ancestors in the South like Moses Jacob Ezekiel were fighting to preserve slavery. Right?

It doesn't sound like you agree with the intended message he was conveying: fraternity, healing, and reconciliation.
I know you are not a LEFTY that wants to burn everything down, you just want to bury what you don't like, butt hurts you and you don't understand someplace like a corner of some dusty old museum?
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#18 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 10:55 AM EST
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And what are you OK with Ray Ray? I heard you liked midget, grandma, clown porn.

Resolution now complete. I hope it #MCFA for you as much as it did for me, but probably not. Anyways, I return you all to your regular scheduled, often repetitive, but not as often interrupted, circular arguments
RayR Offline
#19 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 11:03 AM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
If the Federal Committee for Appropriate Art deems the art as offensive, the art should be removed and destroyed.

(This statement is approved by the Ministry of Truth)


Your sarcasm is funny HD, but that's pretty much the opinion of some around here, which is don't let that art burn my eyes, don't let the children see it, or debate and understand its meaning to its contemporaries, or think about history at all. The bottom line command to the proles is don't think, the regime and its apparatchiks will be the final arbiters of how history is viewed and taught and what symbols and art can be displayed! Yes, it's very 1984ish. The Commies and Nazis did that too.
RayR Offline
#20 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 11:10 AM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
And what are you OK with Ray Ray? I heard you liked midget, grandma, clown porn.

Resolution now complete. I hope it #MCFA for you as much as it did for me, but probably not. Anyways, I return you all to your regular scheduled, often repetitive, but not as often interrupted, circular arguments


All that blathering and no answer to a simple question, not even a joke?
I am forced to assume by your diversion is your answer is NEGATIVE. Is that right?
Sunoverbeach Offline
#21 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 12:44 PM EST
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You'll ASSume whatever you feel like, regardless of my answer or lack thereof. So, go on with yo' bad self. I'm not needed in the process
RayR Offline
#22 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 1:17 PM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
You'll ASSume whatever you feel like, regardless of my answer or lack thereof. So, go on with yo' bad self. I'm not needed in the process


Oh, don't bother answering then, time for you to change back to the Jokster Channel. jester
Sunoverbeach Offline
#23 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 1:21 PM EST
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That was the 2022 resolution. Now I joke for me. FOR ME!
RayR Offline
#24 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 5:48 PM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
That was the 2022 resolution. Now I joke for me. FOR ME!


Only for you? That's pretty selfish.
But I can't wait to see what the new & improved SOB has in store. Cool
Sunoverbeach Offline
#25 Posted: Sun, Jan 1 2023, 6:08 PM EST
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I'm an SOB. Selfish is purty much implied right there
RayR Offline
#26 Posted: Mon, Jan 2 2023, 10:54 AM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
I'm an SOB. Selfish is purty much implied right there


OK, Got it! SOB now means Selfish Old Basturd
RayR Offline
#27 Posted: Tue, Jul 18 2023, 11:36 AM EST
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BREAKING NEWS! There are Republicans who are not to be confused with being conservatives! They are apparently in favor of spending gobs of stolen loot desecrating Moses Jacob Ezekiel's grave and removing the beautiful monument he sculpted.

Has America Surrendered to Marxism? Reconciliation Memorial Slated for Demolition After House Republicans Fail to Defend Civil War Monument in Arlington National Cemetery

By Shawn Bradley Witzemann Jul. 18, 2023 11:00 am

Quote:
As the Marxist Democrat revolution pushes forward, House Republicans have once again failed to take legislative action, and the Reconciliation Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery is scheduled for demolition no later than January 1, 2024.

An amendment to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act was recently presented by Representative Bob Good (R-VA).

Unfortunately for defenders of the Reconciliation Memorial, Rep. Good’s addition to the defense spending bill was rejected four days ago in a late-night vote that saw 41 Republicans break away after Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R – AL), who spoke in favor of the amendment.

Retired Lt. Col. Ed Kennedy was recently quoted in a press release from Defend Arlington — a coalition of American citizens who oppose the destruction of the Reconciliation Memorial.

“The extravagant spending on removing the Reconciliation Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery exemplifies the reckless nature of woke defense spending,” Kennedy stated, “While our junior personnel struggle to make ends meet, millions are being allocated to dismantle a memorial dedicated to veterans. I can hardly fathom that this is happening in America.”

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/has-america-surrendered-marxism-reconciliation-memorial-slated-demolition/
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