RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 17, 2017 at 8:54 pm
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2017 at 9:54 pm by Rev. Rye.)
(August 17, 2017 at 7:02 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 17, 2017 at 4:55 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Okay, so I guess I was wrong about these newer statues. I guess I must not have taken into account the younger statues (particularly since the one people were using as an excuse to brawl in Charlottesville was unveiled in 1924.) More recent statues do complicate matters. And, bearing in mind that I live in a city that has a monument to a literal fascist, and there's no hurry to remove that, I'm not particularly inclined to pulling a 180.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balbo_Monument
At any rate, I still think it's at least a decent compromise, provided it's done for the less abhorrent figures of history; any statues of (for one example) Jefferson Davis can rot in Hell for all I care. I can't find much in the way of context worth celebrating him for.
I drive on Balbo almost every day. I had no idea! Thanks.
Sheeit, another Chicagoan. Well, the Balbo monument is basically an old Roman column on top of a pedestal with writings comparing Ancient Rome with Fascist Italy positively carved into its base, at Balbo park, across the road from Soldier Field and the photo on its Wikipedia page shows the Field Museum within eyeshot. And now that I think about it, the Field may actually be a better place for the Roman column than in the park.
Honestly, until recently, I assumed that Balbo was just some Chicagoan mangling of Bilbao, the Basque city, like the way we decided to name a street after Goethe but pronounce it Go-EETH, but after looking at a film that's otherwise unrelated except for being shot in the same park as the Balbo monument, I learned the truth.
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