Not going to put this well but on top of taking them down I think, at least in or maybe especially in cases where they were commissioned in the eighties or later (if there were any, though I would be okay with knowing the “why” behind any of them), we should also know why they were put up, who thought it was a good… Read more

A museum is a good idea. One central place where the folks who love all that shit can gather and have informal conversations about how great it is to be white. Read more

Kansas City has the very prominent JC Nichols fountain — named after one of the most efficient and nasty racist red-liners of all-time.

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There’s a statue of Sims at the South Carolina State House. The mayor of our capital was on television recently and said it was the one he would most like to see removed. But the Heritage Act (seriously) requires two thirds of the overwhelmingly Republican legislature to vote yes on changing any monument or memorial.… Read more

A national fallen memorial park. Russia has one for the Communist shitheads. Read more

During this whole thing, I’ve been arguing that they need to be taken down and put in a museum, and even though I still maintain that position it is hard to justify not melting all these down and recycling them. Read more

I can’t read and properly comprehend this shit right now because I’m already in a terrible sadness today (Love/hate relationship with love, anybody?) and I’m just getting myself confused. Did everyone at the protest know they were being arrested before hand? Was getting arrested part of the plan, or did they just get… Read more

THIS! My in-laws are crazed Trump-supporters, but ALL FIVE of their offspring are huge liberals. The fact that all five saw past their parents’ racist and fascist bullshit is a testament to the ability of critical thinking to overcome the politics you were raised with. Read more

It’s radicalization on the internet, just like would-be ISIS jihadists. Read more

You’ve just answered your own question: Indoctrination. It can happen to anyone. Read more

Amen. I have family members that chose to be assholes. They for sure didn’t learn it from us. Read more

“Peter is a maniac, who has turned away from all of us and gone down some insane internet rabbit-hole, and turned into a crazy nazi.” Read more

One too many failures and an internet echo chamber. Read more

The internet. Read more

News flash: The myth that everything someone becomes was “taught” or “learned” by watching mommy and daddy is bullshit. Some people become assholes because they choose to be. Not everyone’s fuck up is directly related to daddy drinking too much and screaming at black people on tv in a dilapidated mobile home. Read more

This is the beginning of the White Civil Rights movement...

No longer should we give these people a platform. It must have been difficult for his father to write that letter but he saw it for what it was. Read more

same way conservative parents can have liberal kids....
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Apparently, you’re unfamiliar about how this all works. Read more

Dedicated to all of the people with racist family members and/or friends who act like they are stuck in some sorta moral conundrum. Read more