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Re: Historic Subway Tiles With Nothing To Do With Racism Or Even Confederacy to be Removed |
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Posted by Dyre Dan on Sun Aug 20 00:16:12 2017, in response to Re: Historic Subway Tiles With Nothing To Do With Racism Or Even Confederacy to be Removed, posted by gp38/r42 chris on Fri Aug 18 19:23:53 2017. The guy who ran people down with the car wasn't even a typical member of the (already small) neo-Nazi group, which is a small portion of the "alt-right". He was the proverbial "lone nut", but because he was inspired by a group that was ostensibly there to prevent removal of a Confederate statue, suddenly all Confederate statues must be removed to show solidarity with the woman he ran over. It's ridiculous. Taking down those two busts from the Hall of Fame, where they are surrounded by dozens of others, is especially ridiculous.As for the tile design at the 40th St. IRT fare-control area, the MTA denies it was meant to look like the Confederate flag, but others say it was, in honor of the Southern heritage of New York Times owner Sulzberger. (How's that for irony, a Confederate flag for the New York Times?) Proving it one way or the other at this date would be difficult. |
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