Althouse: Washington Square Park... it's like it's Slaveowner Square Park....

June 30, 2020

Washington Square Park... it's like it's Slaveowner Square Park....

Washington Square Park, NYC. pic.twitter.com/PEidU4Njw8
— BILL HEMMER (@BillHemmer) June 29, 2020

29 comments:

rhhardin said...: Washington not only freed the slaves that were his to free in his will, but provided for their learning a useful trade, something that might work today.; 6/30/20, 7:28 AM
Anonymous said...: I weep for my country.; 6/30/20, 7:37 AM
wendybar said...: I hate the protesters who are destroying our country. Violence and destruction only creates more hate.; 6/30/20, 7:38 AM
mezzrow said...: Winning hearts and minds.; 6/30/20, 7:42 AM
Elliott A said...: A backlash is coming, and it won't be pretty!; 6/30/20, 8:03 AM
wild chicken said...: A backlash is coming, and it won't be pretty!

I don't think so. The old backlashers are dead and gone, and their successors have Stockholm Syndrome. They really think if we'd all just sit down and talk...; 6/30/20, 8:12 AM
tcrosse said...: Read about it in the Slaveowner Post.; 6/30/20, 8:18 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Sally Hemmings could not be reached for comment.; 6/30/20, 8:22 AM
Birkel said...: The cafeteria is closed.
The Mensheviks have a poor track record.; 6/30/20, 8:24 AM
gilbar said...: Serious Question
i understand where blacks might be upset about things that happened to their Great Great Great Grandfathers.... But since ALL WHITES ARE EVIL, WHY do whites give a shit?

More Specifically, if your ancestors came from Poland or Italy in the early 20th century; WHAT THE HELL BUSINESS is it of yours?

Maybe (just Maybe) the TRUE example of White Privilege; is whites that only recently showed up. They've skated along on the work of others.
3 of my Great Great Grandfathers fought with Uncle Billie Sherman and the Army of The Tennessee; traveling around the country in the 1860's, encouraging people to respect black peoples rights. Where are MY reparations ?

Let's impose a 40% wealth tax, on ALL people that immigrated here in the 20th century. These people didn't Make America Great; they came here because it WAS Great; 6/30/20, 8:25 AM
Rory said...: I don't see any way out of this that doesn't include slicing off large areas of the coasts into their own countries. We need a significant Constitutional reform to break the hold of the gatekeepers, and we can't get that done if 10% of the country hates America and many more than that subordinate "American" to other demographic identities.; 6/30/20, 8:31 AM
M Jordan said...: I’m sensing a red-pilling going on here in our beloved host, Ms. Althouse. I mean, a week ago she fires a gun and today she supports a couple who brandished them. The times, they are a-changing.

And since I’m an anecdotalist I extrapolate this out to, oh, 15-20% of our liberal society, maybe much more. And while this terror in the land, unchecked and even applauded by the Democrat Party leaders, produces new images of cultural assault every morning ... well, all those of you betting in predictions markets based on current polling might want to reassess your portfolios.; 6/30/20, 8:33 AM
Michael K said...: Washington not only freed the slaves that were his to free in his will, but provided for their learning a useful trade, something that might work today.

But Jefferson was so in debt at his death he sold them all.; 6/30/20, 8:44 AM
Saint Croix said...: The slave-owners of yesterday are the baby-killers of today. It's easy to do horrific things against innocent people when the authorities in a society classify those people as non-people.

It's a mistake of logic, a lie we tell.

I don't think people on the left are ready for a discussion of the legal ramifications of defining a human being as a non-person. Because that is happening right now, and yet somehow these p.c. people approve of it.

The evil of racism is that humanity is denied. That we are still babbling about race, that mythical construct used to justify slavery, is embarrassing. The lesson from slavery is not that black people are special. The lesson from slavery is that black people are people just like us.

Unborn children are people, too. All of us were in that situation. None of our moms aborted us. Since our moms were nice enough to let us live, we should be nice enough to our own babies.

"Do unto others..."; 6/30/20, 8:53 AM
MountainMan said...: Michael K said... "But Jefferson was so in debt at his death he sold them all.

But IIRC, I think he kept his promise to Sally Hemings and freed their children.; 6/30/20, 9:04 AM
n.n said...: The slave-owners of yesterday are the baby-killers of today. It's easy to do horrific things against innocent people when the authorities in a society classify those people as non-people.

Diversity (i.e. color judgments) and social progress (i.e. relativistic, unqualified, summary) are a Hitlerian philosophy.; 6/30/20, 9:15 AM
Tommy Duncan said...: Blogger The Crack Emcee said...

"Sally Hemmings could not be reached for comment."

Wrong President.; 6/30/20, 9:30 AM
tommyesq said...: Sally Hemmings could not be reached for comment.

Of course, neither could George Washington or Thomas Jefferson...; 6/30/20, 9:40 AM
mikee said...: It might be a good idea for the new revolutionaries to look upon their work here, bathing Washingotn in symbolic blood, and to recall how old George handled his own counter-revolutionaries during the Whiskey Rebellion. Today's revolutionaries forget that blood washes off, at least if you are victorious in your battle.; 6/30/20, 9:50 AM
mccullough said...: I’ve started a not-profit that collects and disposes of all portraits of Washington and Jackson. So far, none of the Woke have sent me their $1 bills, much less any $20 bills.; 6/30/20, 9:54 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Tommy Duncan said...

"Wrong President."

All their slaves look the same to me.; 6/30/20, 10:27 AM
rcocean said...: Lets rename George Washington University, George Floyd U.; 6/30/20, 10:52 AM
rcocean said...: The only way this can end is with Democrats creating their own country. they can rename all their buildings and squares, and take down all the American statues and stop singing American patriotic songs. Unfortunately, once they had their own country they would immediately demand entrance into the Republican country, since they can only sponge off others and subvert. They can only destroy - not build.; 6/30/20, 10:57 AM
Rabel said...: Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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3h
We are tracking down the two Anarchists who threw paint on the magnificent George Washington Statue in Manhattan. We have them on tape. They will be prosecuted and face 10 years in Prison based on the Monuments and Statues Act. Turn yourselves in now!; 6/30/20, 11:52 AM
chuck said...: If we nuked Washington square from orbit it would solve a lot of problems.; 6/30/20, 12:18 PM
Equipment Maintenance said...: What the rioters did to that statue I'd like to do to those pretty murals in downtown Madison.; 6/30/20, 1:03 PM
Jim at said...: A backlash is coming, and it won't be pretty!

Quoted for truth.; 6/30/20, 1:29 PM
Nichevo said...: The Crack Emcee said...
Sally Hemmings could not be reached for comment.

How right you are. Much better she had been sold into Brazil. Then we'd never be troubled by knowing her name. How easy that would have been - for the USG to buy up all the slaves then sell them all south. Never to be heard from again. Ahh, blessed silence!; 6/30/20, 2:14 PM
SteveB said...: Anne - would you please tag this as 'vandalism'? It is important to call things by their correct names. Thanks.; 6/30/20, 3:19 PM