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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) accidentally gave the Washington Monument a sarcastic new nickname ― and some people are hoping itll stick.
Cotton, who made headlines last week with a call to send the U.S. military into American cities, decried the cancellation of the TV show Cops and other elements of cancel culture. He warned that the woke mob could be coming for any one of you.
Then he predicted that cancel culture would come to Washington.
Are we going to tear the Washington Monument down? Cotton asked. Are we going to rename it the Obelisk of Wokeness?
On Twitter, the answer was a resounding yes:
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/tom-cotton-washington-monument-094118070.html
ms liberty
(8,592 posts)So yea, let's make it so!
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,300 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)Or has he just always been oblivious to the issues of the day? After all he keeps saying, "Ils sont fous ces romains" ("These Romans are crazy!" .
Hmmm - that has a ring to it - Oblivious Obelix!
Harker
(14,031 posts)And you'd need an *.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)leftieNanner
(15,143 posts)But there isn't a Dem running against him. One person filed to run right before the deadline, and then decided to quit right after the deadline. We will have another 6 years of Tom Cotton.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)and make him explain in detail every move her makes....Maybe he'll fold and go back home.
leftieNanner
(15,143 posts)And I'm quite sure that he has designs on the White House as well.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)It should be renamed, perhaps, to evoke a symbol that stands for the premise that black lives TRULY matter.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)We dont have to condone everything people did but throwing everything out? Are you sure that if you had been a wealthy land owner back then you wouldnt have had slaves?
Mr.Bill
(24,317 posts)He fought a war against the army he used to belong too. With one difference.
He won.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,362 posts)Or the Obelisk of Cornwallis.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)for very good reasons. Taxation to fill the kings coffers being one of them. He, as well as ALL the founding fathers fought for a whole new idea for a country for the times. A Democratic Republic.
Being a colony of the British Crown wasnt all that popular.
Lee fought to break up a country. To destroy it.
Mr.Bill
(24,317 posts)The Confederate States of America. But he lost. If Washington lost he and many others would have been hanged. Lee should have been hanged along with many others.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Perhaps wed be better off if the South was a completely different country. Well never know. History happens.
Mr.Bill
(24,317 posts)they left now, I can tell you that.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)was that George Washington was much more than a slave owner, and though that is shameful, there is much more to the man which we, as a country benefitted greatly.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)And in response to your other comment, a NON-slave owner could have accomplished everything racist George Washington did... so fuck him!!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)All the best!!
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Going after Confederate generals is probably rather safe, but going after Founding Fathers, no matter how flawed they are is dangerous in an election year.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I'm just glad that Joe Biden has not expressed extreme views.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Statues, monuments, streets, buildings, and state/district names are next!!
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Washington State to? I guess "Columbia" (an early suggested name for the state, because of the river) is completely out.
In another twenty years, when it's politically incorrect to feel anything but extreme comfort about equal marriage, I guess they'll have to tear down a lot more statues of 20th Century leaders who expressed reservations about being gay or lesbian.
Ah, what fun it is to judge 18th Century people by 21st Century standards.
maxsolomon
(33,379 posts)His Bible redaction, the Declaration of Independence, the UV Campus, Monticello.
I cannot resolve these contradictions, but I'm not ready to dismantle the Jefferson Monument. We have to find a way through the contradictions.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)maxsolomon
(33,379 posts)He was a racist slave owner AND a founding father who contributed intellectual rigor to our nation's ideals and my understanding of Jesus of Nazareth.
It's a contradiction.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)seems like a simple solution!!
spanone
(135,859 posts)backtoblue
(11,345 posts)(Dardanelle, AR)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dardanelle_Confederate_Monument
Fuck Cotton.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)After all, he's working his way up to win the "Brightest Dim Bulb" title, in HEAVY competition with Ted Cruz and Louie Gohmert - and you KNOW that's heavy competition!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Im glad Im not one of the judges in that beauty contest!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)on the suggestion of thousands of immigrants, migrants, people of color, Americans without healthcare, Syrians and Iraqis.
KY.................