Posted on 07/07/2020 11:40:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
No monument is safe as America undergoes this Kulturkampf, and no statue should be taken for granted or considered less worthy of protection.
First it was Confederate monuments. Low-hanging fruit. For the iconoclastic Left, however, this was merely the appetizer.
As of this writing, the main course is being served. The mob is clamoring to gobble up monuments dedicated to the likes of the Founding Fathers and Teddy Roosevelt. Even the abolitionist Matthias Baldwin was not spared from the leftist frenzy after vandals tagged the statue with paint and graffiti that read “colonizer” and “murderer.”
It would be a mistake to believe that anti-monument saturnalia was just confined to American figures. Indeed, the looney leftists rampaging across the street are equal opportunity iconoclasts when talking about their hatred of European culture.
Those of us who admire Spanish history had much to lament in the last month.
The statue of conquistador Juan de Oñate got a taste of the Left’s hatred starting in mid-June. Known as “The Last Conquistador,” de Oñate served as colonial governor of the Spanish province Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico in the viceroyalty of New Spain. Under his command, the Spanish were able to settle a significant portion of the Southwest and leave a strong cultural legacy that reverberates to this very day.
Sadly, we live in a time where the past is categorically being discarded by Americans nationwide. First, the county of Rio Arriba removed the Oñate statue in the city of Alcalde on June 15. That same night radical leftist activists took it upon themselves to liberate Albuquerque of Oñate’s presence by attempting to knock down his statue.
After a violent scuffle that ended in gunfire, several people at the protest were arrested. Shortly thereafter, the city removed the statue. The city has yet to determine what it intends to do with the statue, but if current events are any indicator, it will likely join in the radical fervor and remove the statue for good. That’s 2020 for you.
Oñate was not the only Spaniard who saw his likeness defiled. A wacked out mob went on a rampage during the evening of June 19 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park looking for monuments to take their anger out on. Like good self-hating leftists, they applied their irreverence equally to dead white men by knocking down the statues of national anthem author Francis Scott Key, Union general Ulysses S. Grant, and Franciscan friar Junipero Serra. Unlike the first two, Serra was not an American. Nevertheless, his Spanish extraction was enough to trigger these leftist hooligans.
After the Serra statue took a beatdown from vandals, the Spanish Embassy in the United States had the decency to call out the vandals and highlight the contributions that Serra made towards promoting the welfare of the indigenous and protecting them from the excesses of unscrupulous Spanish administrators.
Javier Úbeda, the mayor of the Spanish town of Boadilla del Monte offered to house the statues of Serra and author Miguel de Cervantes (who also wasn’t spared by vandals). The mayor reasoned that these two Spaniards were “architects in part of what we so proudly today call western civilization.”
Mayor Úbeda’s comments are a breath of fresh air in today’s consumeristic world where pursuing instant gratification rather than cultivating a national sense of self is encouraged.
Sadly, the historical insolence continues, but now via mayoral fiat. The city of Columbus, Ohio, decided to kick July off on a low note by removing its statue of Christopher Columbus.
For lovers of Western history, 2020 has been a rough year to say the least. Mobs and spineless local officials continue to erase artifacts of our predecessors on a daily basis it seems.
Any self-respecting nation stands up for its own — past and present. The good and the bad. There are no perfect nations, but there are definitely cultures that have clearly distanced themselves from the rest of the pack. The West is one of those. As heirs to the civilizations that the Greeks and Romans built, it is incumbent upon us to defend ourselves from external and internal threats.
This is not a debate of Republican vs. Democrat. It’s about the existence value of the West. If we’re not willing to defend our culture and our institutions, brace yourselves for dispossession at the hands of the Left. The West has a right to exist and not be swallowed up by the amorphous blob that is globalism.
When BLM says, “Slavery was/is evil,” aren’t they, then saying that Mohammad who practiced it and approved of slavery was evil? That sounds like hate speech to me.
I haven’t heard about any threats on mosques. /sarc
I would let them tear down the Geraldo monument if I had not already torn it down myself.
But it is precisely a debate of Republican vs. Democrat, and therein lies the problem.
Democrats are the cancer.
Republicans are the healthy tissue.
The media is the immune system.
Barring some wonder drug, America is going to die.
The Lenin statue in Seattle appears to be safe.
Too many just assume these antifa are spur of the moment vandals. They are not. They are funded, organized and they have a plan which follows the postmodern ideas of Foucault, Darrida, Zinn, and Chomsky. They see history not as fact, but as narrative which can be deleted and written over. Their street leaders are tough dedicated anarchists, the rioters are Droids, brainwashed by 12 to 18 years of post modern indoctrination. They are like the troopers in Star Wars when Palpatine simply used the Force to take control of their minds. Listen to their speech. They parrot the same words and phrases. Phrases not chosen at random. Phrases designed to inflame while being devoid of real content so challenging them to defend their action is useless. And remember they are organized, communicate instantly through social media, and they are proactive. We OTOH at best are reactive.
While we’re at it, why don’t we kick AOC out if Congress. She must be a descendent of the most evil man to ever step foot in Mexico, the conquistador Cortez who caused the fall if the Aztec Empire. Her Spanish heritage gives her Spanish privilege and she must apologize to brown skinned Mexicans for it. Brown Lives Matter.
Not that the PC crowd cares, but a person must be judged within the context of his/her times. How did the person behave given that condition?
George Washington owned slaves. That was not unusual for the times. And he treated them humanely. George gets a pass.
Simon Legree* owned slaves. Again, that was not usual for the times. But he beat his slaves, and worked them to death. That was evil, and unusual for the times. So no statue for Simon. And if you want to remove one that exists, I won’t object.
* I know Simon Legree was a fictional character. Just tryin’ to make a point.
Indeed! Here in St. Augustine - home base of Florida since 1565 - they’re busy taking down the few “Confederate” monuments that we have, basically at the urging of a black “pastor” from Gainesville and his mostly white female USF professor “congregation” or local Massachusetts retirees (with a few bored black kids they’ve managed to round up).
They’ll be turning their eyes to the Spanish markers next, and I actually think I know the first one that is going to be in their sights. Not revealing it though. I don’t want to give anybody any ideas.
Oh, and just exactly who was selling the black slaves in Africa? BLACK AFRICANS.
I have to laugh at the idiots tearing down Columbus statues when one considers Columbus never set foot in North America. His exploration was limited to Central and South America. I suggest we force the emigration of the morons tearing down his statue and ship them to EL Salvador where they can protest down there with MS 13 putting caps in their butts while they do it
You have an excellent point, but then what to you expect from them?
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The flags of FL and Alabama? Imperial Spain’s flag in on both.
Don’t laugh at them; they are attacking irrelevant statues because they refuse to accept and fix their own shortcomings.
2,000 years from now, a non-white underclass will complain that they underperform everyone else because in 2020 there was a football team called the Redskins.
Yes indeed! Few people recognize the flag, but that’s what it is.
Kulturkampf
The flag also re-appeared briefly in the Spanish Civil War as the banner of the Carlists (aligned with Franco); in it’s original form (saltire of Burgundy) it had a “saw-toothed” design (not smooth bars). The smooth lines in those state flags are more akin to the “cross of St. Patrick” (which when added to the Union Jack gave it its current form). Before Ireland was involuntarily added to the “union”, the Union Jack had no red “X” in it - just the white “X” of Scotland’s St. Andrew’s Cross (until 1801).
I like that word!
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