Posted on 06/21/2019 8:21:18 PM PDT by artichokegrower
“If you know where we come from, this is huge.”
UC Santa Cruz graduate Julisa Lopez, standing before a crowd of more than 150 people Friday morning, said she was thankful for the ceremony that was about to occur. At the end of a two-year effort which Lopez, now studying for a doctorate degree in Seattle, took part in, the university was about to remove a seemingly innocuous campus historical marker in the shape of a bell.
(Excerpt) Read more at santacruzsentinel.com ...
Need to get rid of electricity also
LOL
Aztlan and Islam are colonizing America, where is her outrage about that?
A doctorate degree in what, ingrown pubic hairs ?
Maybe she would have preferred the Aztec colonialism the Spanish colonialism stopped.
What will happen to Taco Bell?
College years are usually about ‘taking down Belles’, as in pretty girls, not taking down Bells, as in historic markers that are harming no one. Of course, my college experience was a long time ago.
How about we just get rid of all religions and we all be forced to worship the all mighty govt state? Right, liberals stupid F***s?
I hope they hold onto all this historic s#it because after the pendelum of stupidity swings back the other way the intelligent people are going to be looking for it so it can be restored.
But no problem with the university being named after the Holy Cross.
Google “Amah Mutsun Tribal Band” and you’ll get their “tribal” website. Biggest piece of BS and creative writing you will have seen for a while.
Basically Mexicans pretending to be Indians, it looks like.
We could spring for a free helicopter ride for Julisa...
“Aztlan and Islam are colonizing America, where is her outrage about that?”
There was some, but were told to STFU by the Dubya Republicans and the Obama Democrats.
Jobs Americans Won’t Do, Illegal Immigration Is An Act of Love, and Islam Is The Religion Of Peace is what they told us.
They came for our Confederate statues and no one said anything...............
Yep, and cars, roads, houses, iPhones, designer jeans, Chinese underwear, etc.
Despite what the web site claims BIA has not recognized this group
ICONOCLASM SPASM
Some Thoughts on the Destruction of Statues of Confederate War Heroes
My consistent reaction over time to the destruction of statues of Confederate generals has been to regard them as spasms of the mob and the product of cultish ideology. More particularly in the instances of Robert E Lee or Nathan Bedford Forrest, the desecrations are the product of a generation of miss education
Historically, they have a broader meaning and a sinister impulse. The French Revolution stands as an example of iconoclasm as a tool of social control rather than a mere expression of ideological purity.
Statues are icons and for millennia icons have stood in the place of written language. They are a visible, physical symbol of what is to be respected, venerated or even worshiped. Often after an episode of iconoclastic destruction new icons are erected to represent the new values to be respected, venerated or worshiped.
So in the French Revolution we saw the deliberate destruction of churches as well as the physical destruction of the bodies of priests and nuns, we saw the decapitation of the statues of Kings along the façade of Notre Dame, we saw the decapitation of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. All this was part of the rabid anticlericalism of the French Revolution. But keep in mind, the destruction of religious icons in the course of the French Revolution was not limited to the initial adrenaline upheaval but extended for four years when one might have expected passions to have cooled.
Not surprisingly, after Robespierre had led the way in a blood spasm of murder and iconoclasm, he turned about and erected a new icon toward a supreme being and summoned the people to a festival. Shortly thereafter he was guillotined.
Robespierre had erected a new icon to represent a new supreme being who was to be celebrated, venerated or even worshiped. Napoleon came along and was not in doubt about what should be the object of iconic worship; statues of Napoleon together with paintings exaggerating his Imperial magnificence became abundant. The phrase, the man on horseback, suggests statues of Napoleon. Not coincidentally, the more the cult of Napoleon grew, the more intrusive waxed his secret police.
The point is that the iconoclasm unleashed by the storming of the Bastille, a solid fortress torn down to rubble in a fit of iconoclasm, was a tool of the revolution, as was the propaganda of Goebbels that served the ideology of Nazism. The Jacobins knew that the icons of their ideology must supplant those of the ancient regime so they changed the calendar, renamed the months and supplanted every icon of the ancient regime they could lay their hands on.
Czar Nicholas of Russia and his family learned to their sorrow, just as Louis XVI and Marie Annette learned to their sorrow, that living human bodies are also seen as icons that must be destroyed if the ideology they represent is to be successfully supplanted. Small wonder that figures of dead Confederate generals must also be executed, decapitated, and rendered into rubble.
Quite often the iconoclasm assumes the aura of religious indignation. That is the sort of iconoclasm we have seen when the Taliban smote graven images into bits but hopefully not out of history. We saw much the same during the Protestant Reformation among the nonconformist sects who effaced religious images from church walls. These examples are illustrative of an impulse to destroy an icon not just because its presence is repugnant but because the absence of an icon is needed to conform to the theology of Islam or nonconformist sects. We are reminded that the 30 Years War was one of the worst holocausts to be visited on Europe. The German town whence my ancestor left for America in its website today describes the carnage as worse than that experienced during the second world war.
The French Revolution justified its iconoclasm by declaring it stood for liberty, equality, fraternity -all certainly enlightened impulses. But regicide or the murder of priests and nuns can hardly be described as enlightened. The Taliban justify their iconoclasm because it obeys the diktat of Allah but they proffered the same justification when they severed the heads of women and children.
When 21st-century American Talibans smash Confederate icons, they are preening their virtue for all the world to see that they themselves are not racists. They will not admit the humanity of the men whose effigies they destroy. They must make way for a whole new reality and they must sweep away historical reality to do so. The destruction of Confederate statues is not just a reaction but also a tool for social control.
God help us if the tearing down of 19th century men evolves into the destruction of 21st-century men. History tells us the temptation for the iconoclasts to indulge their ideology in blood and murder is very real.
the colonialism that messico and CA are currently engaging in?
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