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DeviantAnthro t1_iudc05p wrote

What's the article say?

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coconut_sorbet t1_iudi3s9 wrote

Title & subtitle:

> Richmond Can Remove Last Confederate Statue, Judge Rules > > The statue of Ambrose P. Hill, a Confederate lieutenant general, has stood at an intersection in Virginia since 1892. His remains, buried beneath it, will be interred in a cemetery, the city said.

Full text here (no paywall)

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Charlesinrichmond OP t1_iudlujw wrote

basically same thing all the other ones do - AP Hill can be removed.

The interesting thing is it's in the New York Times.

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komAnt t1_iudqhpf wrote

What's interesting about that?

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Charlesinrichmond OP t1_iudsxo5 wrote

It's basically marketing. RVA goes on the radar as a place to live for people who either hadn't thought about it, or were pondering it but were worried we were just like Alabama. If you were marketing Richmond and buying ads this would cost a fortune

Basically "look! They are still cheap and aren't backward anymore!"

a form of the medium is the message. NYTs take on things gets loaded with authoritative affect.

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Glen_YngkinDid_9-11 t1_iue0ucd wrote

It’s almost like the capital of a slave-state removing all of the statues glorifying that government is a big deal.

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Charlesinrichmond OP t1_iufsuzy wrote

a thing yes. Big deal enormously overstates it though

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Glen_YngkinDid_9-11 t1_iugqi3f wrote

How is it not a big deal?

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Charlesinrichmond OP t1_iuieuc3 wrote

how on earth is it a big deal? It's a minor thing that's going to be forgotten in a decade. The very definition of temporary virtue signalling. The people getting bent out of shape about it are silly, and the people thinking its of lasting importance are also silly.

I think we should have just renamed Lee to "Grant" Stuart to "Sherman" etc. Would have achieved the same thing much more cheaply

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Glen_YngkinDid_9-11 t1_iuj31uf wrote

I wonder if a Jew would feel like taking down a statue of Rommel is “virtue signaling?”

Why is everything about how “cheap” it is, for rightists? Maybe the expense wouldn’t matter if we actually taxed the landlords?

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