Religion is a cancer on society.
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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.
The American Civic religion certainly has its share of consecrated figures
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Didn’t the founding fathers own slaves?
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!
It’s a good look too!
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
tldr, generic radlibs
A lot of their writings are them constantly talking shit on the other guys.
Not all of them but basically all the ones who made the history books did
If someone gave Ben Franklin a Keffiyeh he’d wear the thing around, incorrectly, for the next year. But blah blah blah desecration
He would 1000% use it to pick up women claiming he was a world traveler who has seen exotic sights (and wants to see one more exotic sight nudge nudge wink wink)
The way we remember Ben Franklin is basically just Danny Devito but slightly hornier.
Didn’t Ben Franklin learn Arabic through his own copy of the Quran, or am I thinking of a different guy?
Think that was Jefferson. Supposedly he was big into studying religions, and I seem to remember the first Muslim in Congress being sworn in on the same Quran.
Apparently he created an edit of the bible that took out all the miracles and just focused on the stuff that could be applied to secular thought.
It was Rashida Tlaib, but I think it’s an english translation of the Quran!
This was what I was thinking of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_oath_controversy_of_the_110th_United_States_Congress
Apparently the Jefferson Qu’ran thing came later and he was sworn in using a “regular” Qu’ran.
He seems like he’d be pulling off those Trudeau publicity stunts constantly. You may not like it but this is what a modern Ben Franklin would be like:
Franklin would be out there claiming to be an “octoroon” to nail more French dilletantes
Not enough publicity tears 😢
I love how she’s the self proclaimed voice of Jewish people.
Meghan McCain having a career is like The Man in the High Castle or some other book she’s never read
Sunday morning!
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
If anything it’s an act of preservation of the statue.
We need to stop liberals from using similes until we figure out what’s going on.
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.
Sometimes I forget that liberals literally care about statues more than any number of human lives.
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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
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.
