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'Racist + rapist' scrawled on UVa's Thomas Jefferson statue
Associated Press ^ | Apr 13, 2018 6:09 PM EDT

Posted on 04/14/2018 7:21:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai

A University of Virginia statue of Thomas Jefferson was vandalized with the words “RACIST + RAPIST” as the university commemorates the 275th anniversary of its founder’s birth. […]

Virginia spokesman Anthony de Bruyn said “acts of vandalism do not contribute to meaningful discussion” as the university reckons with the complexities of the slave owning Founding Father’s legacy. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Education; History; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; jefferson; uva; vandalism; virginia
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1 posted on 04/14/2018 7:21:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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...as the university reckons with the complexities of the slave owning Founding Father’s legacy. …

It's so difficult. Especially when these SJWs and mental midgets realize that for all his faults, Thomas Jefferson was a better and bigger man than they could ever be. And that he founded the university that provides them with their sinecure.

2 posted on 04/14/2018 7:31:02 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Olog-hai

Probably done by faculty.


3 posted on 04/14/2018 7:31:39 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Olog-hai

Presumably, George Washington is next. All part of the master plan to destroy the United States as we have known and loved it for all these years.


4 posted on 04/14/2018 7:31:52 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Olog-hai

Question: Should all statues be torn down and a law written that statues are illegal? Why, because some”ONE” is offended by every statue or are we just to sissyfied in our culture anymore? I sure I will be called insults for choice of words I don’t care. Just like I really don’t care about what people do in their own lives. Just don’t try shoving it down my throat! Be gay, smoke dope, whatever just keep it out of my life.


5 posted on 04/14/2018 7:32:20 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Olog-hai
Obviously a hate crime.

Call the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ post-haste.

Must be prosecuted in Federal Court ASAP.

Other side of the argument: Doesn't qualify for federal prosecution unless a noose was put around the neck of the statue?

6 posted on 04/14/2018 7:33:50 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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There is an easy solution:

The University is hereby CLOSED, All classes are cancelled. If and when the vandals are identified, we will reopen the school and the Students will have to Make up the Lost work during the Summer or whenever they can find the time.


7 posted on 04/14/2018 7:36:33 AM PDT by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: Retvet

I imagine they will eventually take down Jefferson’s statue and put up a statue of Stalin in its place and the snowflakes will cheer.


8 posted on 04/14/2018 7:36:56 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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9 posted on 04/14/2018 7:45:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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One could educate these c-suckers, but is beyond their mental capacity to understand anything.

You’d have to beat it into them.


10 posted on 04/14/2018 7:45:47 AM PDT by crz
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These punks, commies, ANTIFA types, plus those who want to rewrite our history are out to destroy everything we held sacred. Jefferson’s and all civil war statutes are/were a part of our history no matter what anyone thinks of those southern Generals, Robert E. Lee to Davis. I am damn sick and tired of those who refuse to assimilate, want to change this country plus everything our founding fathers stood for and fought for. From fags and lesbians marrying to openly holding hands, etc., it is wrong and these acts are abominations. Our military is a disgrace with fags and lesbians. We must take our country back or it will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah.


11 posted on 04/14/2018 7:53:39 AM PDT by Lumper20
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Very sad day for those of us who love Uva and Mr, Jeffereon.

ML/NJ

12 posted on 04/14/2018 7:55:54 AM PDT by ml/nj
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We missed out on having a country whose founders were radical Leftists. The level of ignorance and näiveté of so many students and facullty on college campuses is astounding.


13 posted on 04/14/2018 7:56:14 AM PDT by windsorknot
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They evidently don’t care who they’re offending. When they catch the perp, or perps, they need to be prosecuted for this hate crime, which should add years to their sentence.


14 posted on 04/14/2018 8:04:59 AM PDT by FrdmLvr
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“One could educate these c-suckers, but is beyond their mental capacity to understand anything.

You’d have to beat it into them.”

A few public executions would be a start.


15 posted on 04/14/2018 8:05:11 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Couldnt agree more.


16 posted on 04/14/2018 8:08:35 AM PDT by crz
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To: Olog-hai

The pendulum will swing one of these days and the race of professional victims will rue the day they vilified these great men. Martin Luther King, Jr. had more ethical issues and morality problems than Bill Clinton.


17 posted on 04/14/2018 8:14:17 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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Serious? Can’t a slave fall in love? Forced sex on slaves is rape. But what if a servant and her master actually did fall in love? You can’t tell me that in the 1700s relationships between men and women of any kind were equal. Come on.

Plus with all the gorgeous red hair and brains he was probably a catch. And his bed was right there near hers.


18 posted on 04/14/2018 8:17:54 AM PDT by Yaelle
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I’m waiting for the name of the Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate to be changed. Built with our money (after promises that private funding would take care of all of it), at least Jefferson was only intimate with women, he didn’t kill them or wear a neck brace to hide it.


19 posted on 04/14/2018 8:23:04 AM PDT by laconic
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Yes, it is. What is more sad is that the linked article is riddled with lies, which, IMHO, is what promotes this kind of activity in response.

1. It was never a "white nationalist rally"
2. "community members surrounded a statue to protect it as torch-bearing white supremacists circled them" - Another lie.

I hate what they'e done to C'ville and UVA, in particular. Just ticks me slam off.
20 posted on 04/14/2018 8:38:57 AM PDT by softengine
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