Republican lawmakers called for a statue of slain MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk to be installed in the U.S. Capitol following his murder.In a draft letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) blamed "hateful rhetoric from the left" for the killing."To honor this legacy, we ca...
Your history teachers failed you.
I would be very surprised if Charlie Kirk has been included in anyone’s history book to date.
If your understanding of why there are any statues of MLK boils down to “he was a famous guy who said stuff and then got shot,” your history teachers have failed you. And if that’s not your understanding, then it’s a terribly dismissive way to describe one of the greatest social traumas for Americans in the 20th century.
And yet it’s the only common link between the two.
Both were very vocal about Christianity. King being a Reverend and Kirk being a christofascist
If we want to get down to the nut of it, he was an icon of a large and very successful social movement who was cut down in his prime by his political opponents.
But that does technically also qualify for Kirk. Also, for any number of Confederate General statues we’d thrown up across the nation in the wake of Jim Crow. Statues don’t go to the “Good Guys”, they go to the people whose movements have the wealth and the influence to build them.
If your history teacher hasn’t conveyed that message, you might need to ask her why we’ve got Andrew Jackson’s face on our money and a pedophile carved into Mt Rushmore. Monuments and statues aren’t handed out objectively. They are propaganda works erected by the wealthy and powerful to venerate historical icons. Very real possibility we end up tearing down the MLK memorial under our current President in order to clear a space for these goons, sycophants, and freaks.
One was fighting for a better world, one for a worse one.
One of them deserves a statue, the other one not so much.
I just hope that those who want to have a statue of that hateful, spiteful, horrible person get what they deserve.
Statues don’t get built based on who deserves one the most.
That’s right, but not what I was focussing on. I was talking about the people who want statues for people who (morally) don’t deserve them.
Wait, I know trump was SAYING he was going to put his face on…but I never heard news that he DID it!
Sadly, not the first pedophile President