Monuments to Our Times

[abbey1227]

"I mean, how far do we throw this political correctness thing?”

www.yahoo.com/news/ballerina-statue-cut-down-tulsa-210112625.html

Associated Press
Ballerina statue cut down in Tulsa, sold for scrap metal
Mon, May 2, 2022, 4:01 PM

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A bronze statue depicting one of Oklahoma's most famous Native American ballerinas was cut from its base outside a Tulsa museum and sold for scrap to a recycling company, authorities said Monday.

www.yahoo.com/news/does-kaukauna-galloping-ghost-statue-110202187.html

Does the Kaukauna Galloping Ghost statue evoke the Ku Klux Klan? A group of students wants it removed. It's an issue that has a history.
AnnMarie Hilton, Appleton Post-Crescent
Mon, May 2, 2022, 6:02 AM

One story says a reporter for a local newspaper said the Kaukauna football team dressed in all white looked like ghosts galloping over the Appleton football team. The other story credits the coach of the struggling 1924 football team who supposedly asked his players to emulate Harold "Red" Grange, who played for the University of Illinois and later the Chicago Bears and was nicknamed "The Galloping Ghost."

[Prometheus]

So... the first story is about someone stealing a statue for money and the second one is about people being ignorant.

What's the connection in your mind?

[abbey1227]

May 4, 2022 0:32:32 GMT Prometheus said:

So... the first story is about someone stealing a statue for money and the second one is about people being ignorant.

What's the connection in your mind?

Which people were being ignorant? in your opinion

I'm wondering why we're supposed to feel empathy towards anyone's attachment to statues? When tearing them down recently has been so trendy

I'm also barely olde enough to have even heard of Red Grange........ I can just imagine how people under 40 would fail to recognize a ton of things that are part and parcel with historic statues and monuments.

[Prometheus]

May 4, 2022 4:22:41 GMT abbey1227 said:

May 4, 2022 0:32:32 GMT Prometheus said:

So... the first story is about someone stealing a statue for money and the second one is about people being ignorant.

What's the connection in your mind?

Which people were being ignorant? in your opinion

I'm wondering why we're supposed to feel empathy towards anyone's attachment to statues? When tearing them down recently has been so trendy

I'm also barely olde enough to have even heard of Red Grange........ I can just imagine how people under 40 would fail to recognize a ton of things that are part and parcel with historic statues and monuments.

1. The people not knowing anything about the Galloping Ghost. One wonders how these people can still be offended by something that is probably covered in Freshman Orientation.

2. People are ignorant

3. See #1