{"id":64151,"date":"2017-08-16T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64151"},"modified":"2017-08-16T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T15:11:04","slug":"so-much-work-to-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64151","title":{"rendered":"So Much Work To Be Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many statues out there – ergo, so much triggering.<\/p>\n

As Big Left prowls the country looking for history that “triggers” them and must be destroyed [1], it’s probably worth pitching in and helping findi more history that needs to be expunged.<\/p>\n

Exhuming McCarthy<\/strong>: \u00a0much has been made of the statue of Lenin in, where else, Seattle:<\/p>\n

\"...<\/p>\n

Leftover “art” from some misbegotten WPA project from hell?<\/p>\n

No – a labor of “love” in the full Orwellian sense of the term<\/a>; \u00a0from Wikipedia:<\/p>\n

Lewis E. Carpenter, an English teacher in Poprad originally from\u00a0Issaquah, Washington<\/a>, found the monumental statue lying in a scrapyard ready to be sold for the price of the bronze; Carpenter had met and befriended Venkov while in Czechoslovakia. In close collaboration with a local journalist and good friend, Tom\u00e1\u0161 F\u00fcl\u00f6pp, Carpenter approached the city officials with a claim that despite its current unpopularity, the sculpture was still a work of art worth preserving, and he offered to buy it for $13,000.[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0After many bureaucratic hurdles, he finally signed a contract with the mayor on March 16, 1993.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

With the help of Venkov, the statue was cut into three pieces and shipped to the United States at a total cost of $40,000.[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Carpenter financed much of that via mortgaging his home<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The architect of a kleptocratic thugocracy that murdered tens of millions of people over seventy years? \u00a0I’m #triggered! \u00a0Break out the tow cables and the blowtorches!<\/p>\n

But we’re not done expunging Communism’s murderous legacy. \u00a0 The Minnesota State Capitol is crowded with paintings and sculptures of people who were figures in the “Farmer Labor” Party, and the early years of the merger between them and the Democrats to form the “DFL”.<\/p>\n

The Farmer-Labor, as well as the DFL it joined, was expressly pro-communist. \u00a0The new party inherited the FLP’s support for the USSR and Josef Stalin. \u00a0 The infant DFL, in other words, supported the party of the\u00a0Holodomor<\/em>, of the Gulag, of the Purge.<\/p>\n

It’s time to rid our state of this noxious legacy of genocide. \u00a0I suggest a painting-burning and smashing.<\/p>\n

Politically Incorrect<\/strong>: \u00a0 Next, it’s time to address statues and other public art that pays omage to a \u00a0Christianist\u00a0<\/em>preacher who was a very powerful spokesperson against gay marriage – one whose influence among opponents to gay marriage today is too huge to calculate; one who, were he alive today, would be railing against same sex marriage with a fluency and authenticity today’s speakers can only dream about.<\/p>\n

That anti-gay bigot?<\/p>\n

\"What<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King!<\/p>\n

His failure to support gay marriage – presaging the mass dissent from most black Christian ministers, even today-<\/p>\n

\"MLK<\/p>\n

Can this be allowed?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

[1] – Thanks for nothing, Confederacy. \u00a0Going all-in on the Tenth Amendment, to protect…the right to own other people? \u00a0 \u00a0Holy flaming crap on a Harley, couldn’t you have drawn the line at moonshine or gambling or tearing the tags off mattresses when you go all in an one of the Rights of Man?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So many statues out there – ergo, so much triggering. As Big Left prowls the country looking for history that “triggers” them and must be destroyed [1], it’s probably worth pitching in and helping findi more history that needs to be expunged. Exhuming McCarthy: \u00a0much has been made of the statue of Lenin in, where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,321,24,308,25,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-left","category-culture-war","category-entitled-america","category-history-and-its-making","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64152,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64151\/revisions\/64152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}