If someone gave Ben Franklin a Keffiyeh he'd wear the thing around, incorrectly, for the next year. But blah blah blah desecration
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Handmaids Tale. A story famously about the desecration of statues of famous white American men
"Wow it's just like [entertainment] but the people I don't like are the bad guys!"
At least Ben Franklin had an abolitionist arc later in life. I don't think the intent of putting a makeshift keffiyeh is to desecrate the statue. The protesters are clearly trying to be respectful and win over "moderates" here!
Not all of them, but most of them did. Shoutout to Thomas Paine for not being morally bankrupt.
The term founding fathers is an unfortunate one. It was a varied group of people with different beliefs and levels of participation. American history always makes it sound like one group of besties who hung out all the time and agreed on everything. I don't think that's what you or dirt were doing but I hear it a lot
Not all of them but basically all the ones who made the history books did
I wonder how she feels about the roe v wade shit via a vis comparing to things to hand maids tale
Yah but no a small protest is definitely the same thing
Desecrated
Because the Founding Fathers are a pantheon for the American civic religion? (Answering myself, unironically yes!)
Meanwhile they'll protect the acts of burning Qurans and rendering the Prophet in insulting ways as free speech, and not inciting public religious conflict
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Franklin isn't holy or sacred whatever how the hell can you desecrate him.
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A pro-Palestine group putting a kufiyah on a statue is honoring it, if anything.
I do now. I've been asking myself how this relates to a handmaids tale all day but I think you nailed it. It was kind of like the Brothers Karamazov, probably, I've never read it
Do the lead pipes in washington rot the memory? Do these people not remember the years between 1995 and 2014 when muslims were the designated targets? Why does Marxism curse me with this recollection of the very recent past.
desecrated his statue
With a very removable bit of desecration that isn't at all permanent. Are these people capable of thinking?
this isn't even the level of desecration drunk people will do as a laugh
that statue is less desecrated on average as they have shielded it from pigeon shit
We need to stop liberals from using similes until we figure out what’s going on.
Philly comrades stay winning. Maybe I'll hop on the subway and go turn it into a bust with a sledge hammer.
Well, don't do that... especially now that you've posted about it!
He was a slaver. So forgive me if I don't give a shit what people do to his statue.
Meghan McCain having a career is like The Man in the High Castle or some other book she's never read
Sometimes I forget that liberals literally care about statues more than any number of human lives.
I can't help imagining that if that faildaughter ever wrote a resume it'd just be the words "MY FATHER" in massive font on each page.
Clown to clown conversation
Hamilton revived the founding fathers cult of personality for the next generation



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