Buh bye Abe Lincoln!

[DonS 3,292]

Where does it end?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/cornell-university-removes-gettysburg-address-lincoln-bust-from-library-alleged-complaint

 

[posty 2,702]

Amazing how just a complaint from ONE person and things get removed...

[DonS 3,292]

1 minute ago, posty said:

Amazing how just a complaint from ONE person and things get removed...

It only works if the person complaining isn't a straight white male, otherwise your complaint is just bigoted hate speech. 

[TimmySmith 2,782]

2. It's happening but it's not a problem.

[TheNewGirl 1,496]

This one really makes me sad for some reason. 

Erasing history or "removing" history doesn't help ANYTHING. 

[DonS 3,292]

Hopefully this proud complainer is able to get they/their student loan forgiven. I'm sure their degree in gender studies will bring in the big bucks at Starbucks.

[Voltaire 5,317]

It's what liberals do in institution after institution. One leftoid freak complains and the spineless liberal in charge immediately capitulates rather than tell them to pound sand.

The former newspaper, where that exact thing has happened, New York Times has an article about that today: https://archive.ph/Hw8HR

[Hardcore troubadour 15,487]

Highly educated 

[DonS 3,292]

Did they remove his bust in celebration of Juneteenth? 

[Mike Honcho 5,288]

15 minutes ago, posty said:

Amazing how just a complaint from ONE person and things get removed...

If that were true, you would have been gone a long time ago.

[Cdub100 3,928]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

[Cloaca du jour 2,150]

33 minutes ago, posty said:

Amazing how just a complaint from ONE person and things get removed...

And we complain about pimpadeux and nothing happens..

[posty 2,702]

1 hour ago, Mike Honcho said:

If that were true, you would have been gone a long time ago.

Then you would be the only one that couldn't win a tooth...

[BunnysBastatrds 2,449]

12 hours ago, posty said:

Then you would be the only one that couldn't win a tooth...

 Or a Booth

[lickin_starfish 1,942]

Cornell University terminated employment of people who would not get injected with the medical experiment. My wife was one of those people.

[iam90sbaby 2,620]

Lincoln should've pushed that deal through with Bernard Kock, we'd all be happier.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,487]

7 minutes ago, peenie said:

It makes me sad that only the man who helped free the slave is remembered, but the slave and his contributions are forgotten. 
It makes me sad that every negative historical fact that is an insult to the majority is considered irrelevant. 
 

Makes me sad that the men that fought and died to end slavery are forgotten. And disparaged. 

[Gladiators 1,993]

Who?

[Kopy 570]

I never liked his hat!

 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,487]

I want all Lincoln statues taken down. He was obviously gay. 

[DonS 3,292]

4 hours ago, lickin_starfish said:

Cornell University terminated employment of people who would not get injected with the medical experiment. My wife was one of those people.

Didn't realize you lived in the Ithaca area.  The more you know.

[patweisers44 848]

4 hours ago, lickin_starfish said:

Cornell University terminated employment of people who would not get injected with the medical experiment. My wife was one of those people.

I take it the "dont tell me what to do with my body" defense didnt work in this case?

Sorry to hear about this dismissal.

[Fnord 2,285]

17 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

I want all Lincoln statues taken down. He was obviously gay. 

I didn't realize you were old enough to have engaged in your hobbies with him!

[DonS 3,292]

Next step if the crazy left gets their way:

 

 

[Horseman 2,472]

2 hours ago, peenie said:

But let’s make up our minds, was the civil war fought to free the slaves or to preserve the Union?  I think we’ve got plenty of proof that most men were not risking their lives for the slave, while many others in fact were.

It's a fact that Lincoln was the president that freed the slaves.  But it's also a fact that slavery was NOT the primary reason we were in civil war.  We were at odds for political control and states rights. The Civil war started after the Confederate took over Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The North was going to starve to death as the South suddenly had control of all the ports. Freeing black people just happened to be trendy with the side that won the war.

[iam90sbaby 2,620]

19 minutes ago, DonS said:

Next step if the crazy left gets their way:

 

 

LMAO!

[porkbutt 893]

we should reverse all the evil work he did too.

[TheNewGirl 1,496]

3 hours ago, peenie said:

It makes me sad that only the man who helped free the slave is remembered, but the slave and his contributions are forgotten. 
It makes me sad that every negative historical fact that is an insult to the majority is considered irrelevant. 
 

So I ask again, what's the point of removing statues? Trying to change and rewrite history? 

If the contributions of slaves are forgotten, then let's ADD to what we already have and offer that at the same time as keeping what we have. If you think that negative facts need to be made relevant, then lets talk about it. 

Again, REMOVING stuff doesn't HELP anything. 

[MDC 7,471]

This article is great rage bait.

A professor notices the bust gone a few weeks ago. It was on temporary display and has been gone since 2021. An unnamed librarian says the temporary exhibit is gone cause “someone complained.” No details or names available. 

No follow up either if this turns out to be false.

The picture of the empty space where the bust was is a nice touch. Lol

[TimmySmith 2,782]

14 minutes ago, MDC said:

This article is great rage bait.

A professor notices the bust gone a few weeks ago. It was on temporary display and has been gone since 2021. An unnamed librarian says the temporary exhibit is gone cause “someone complained.” No details or names available. 

No follow up either if this turns out to be false.

The picture of the empty space where the bust was is a nice touch. Lol

The school admits there was a complaint and it was removed. They haven't commented on the complaint so they have opened the door for speculation.  You wanna make a side bet on the wokeness of the complaint?

[MDC 7,471]

2 minutes ago, TimmySmith said:

The school admits there was a complaint and it was removed.

Not according to OP’s article. The article says a professor was told by a librarian that someone complained. The university didn’t confirm it.

Is there a better article I missed?

[TimHauck 2,905]

1 minute ago, MDC said:

Not according to OP’s article. The article says a professor was told by a librarian that someone complained. The university didn’t confirm it.

Is there a better article I missed?

That’s hearsay anyway!  Should’ve went straight to the librarian!

[TimmySmith 2,782]

59 minutes ago, MDC said:

Not according to OP’s article. The article says a professor was told by a librarian that someone complained. The university didn’t confirm it.

Is there a better article I missed?

   Nice hair splitting.  With mounting pressure, the "school" will be forced to respond, then we'll know.  

[MDC 7,471]

8 minutes ago, TimmySmith said:

   Nice hair splitting.  With mounting pressure, the "school" will be forced to respond, then we'll know.  

Sure. Unless it turns out that the bust was removed for any number of other reasons. Then we get no follow up.

But you get the angry boner you wanted!

[DonS 3,292]

5 minutes ago, MDC said:

Sure. Unless it turns out that the bust was removed for any number of other reasons. Then we get no follow up.

But you get the angry boner you wanted!

How about a war boner? 

 

 

 

[Engorgeous George 2,331]

2 hours ago, MDC said:

Sure. Unless it turns out that the bust was removed for any number of other reasons. Then we get no follow up.

But you get the angry boner you wanted!

Angry boners are great.  At my age the best I can manage is a slightly miffed chubby.

[Masshole 642]

4 hours ago, Horseman said:

It's a fact that Lincoln was the president that freed the slaves.  But it's also a fact that slavery was NOT the primary reason we were in civil war.  We were at odds for political control and states rights. The Civil war started after the Confederate took over Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. The North was going to starve to death as the South suddenly had control of all the ports. Freeing black people just happened to be trendy with the side that won the war.

Woof, sorry horse but I thought you were better than this.    

The preeminent issues of states rights that precipitated the civil war were about slavery.    The 3/5ths rule, allowing new states in as slave states or not slave states, the return of fugitive slaves, etc.     I am not saying slavery was the only reason for the civil war, there were others.   But slavery was where the rubber met the road for the states rights battles that led to the civil war.    If slavery had not existed - there would not have been a civil war.   It's as simple as that.    

[Horseman 2,472]

1 hour ago, Masshole said:

Woof, sorry horse but I thought you were better than this.    

The preeminent issues of states rights that precipitated the civil war were about slavery.    The 3/5ths rule, allowing new states in as slave states or not slave states, the return of fugitive slaves, etc.     I am not saying slavery was the only reason for the civil war, there were others.   But slavery was where the rubber met the road for the states rights battles that led to the civil war.    If slavery had not existed - there would not have been a civil war.   It's as simple as that.    

Sure that was one of the state's rights being contested, even THE right if you want, but the war started and happened because the South controlled all the ports and the North was going to starve to death.  The war was necessary for survival, not because we we hit an impasse on fighting state's rights.

As soon as we come to grips with this fact the sooner we can stop saying the war was to free the slaves.  It wasn't.

[Masshole 642]

7 minutes ago, Horseman said:

Sure that was one of the state's rights being contested, but the war started and happened because the South controlled all the ports and the North was going to starve to death.  The war was necessary for survival, not because we we hit an impasse on fighting state's rights.

As soon as we come to grips with this fact the sooner we can stop saying the war was to free the slaves.  It wasn't.

Not sure where you are getting your information.    You know why Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia were big and important cities in the the 19th century?  Because they are large, excellent ports and harbors.   By going thru the Erie Canal and/or the Saint Lawrence seaway you could get to Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, etc.    

Did the north "starve" during the civil war?  It went on for over 3 years.   I don't think the confederates were handling a lot of goods in their ports that were destined for the north.     

[posty 2,702]

I wonder what will be removed in 40 years...