Someone Swaps Racist Monuments With Colorful Air Dancers In Hilarious Pics And People Think It’s An Awesome Idea
In the wake of the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement, racist monuments are being taken down one by one. A statue of Jefferson Davis was toppled in Richmond, Virginia, a monument for slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, England was dragged into the River Avon, and multiple Christopher Columbus statues around the US have fallen too.
And one guy has an idea on how to bring some liveliness to these now-vacant pedestals. Jack suggested “temporarily replacing all racist monuments with air dancers” while we wait for the new ones. Jack’s tweet got almost 500K likes and standing rounds of applause from people hailing the idea as absolutely wonderful.
You see, it’s like hitting two birds with one stone. First, it adds some color to the landscape and second, it gives the “wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man” its long-awaited moment to shine. Probably the first and, most likely, the last. Let’s see some of the “drafts” down below and hit the comments section to say what you think!
Jack shared his idea on Twitter and people are loving it
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There’s a symbolic value to a racist statue coming down. But many skeptics find themselves threatened by the act of “rewriting the past.” Charlotte Lydia Riley, a historian of contemporary Britain at the University of Southampton, in a piece for The Guardian, stated that there’s nothing to worry about. “It’s literally what we historians do.”
“Despite what Leopold von Ranke—one of the pioneers of modern historical research—said, history is not only about finding out ‘how it actually happened,’ but also about how we think about the past and our relationship to it.” Most importantly, “the past may be dead, but history is alive, and it is constructed in the present,” Charlotte concluded.
One Twitter user urged everyone to respect the tube men’s full title
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Historian James Holland agrees that pulling down the statues has nothing to do with airbrushing the past. “Pulling down statues is nothing new, however, nor is the changing of street names and even those of cities and countries.”
“It has happened time and again through history. Most of us in the West cheered when the swastikas were blown up in 1945, or when the statues of Lenin and Stalin were pulled down, or even that of Saddam Hussein,” he explained in an article for Sky News.
Another monument replacement idea came from this woman
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And many people joined in to share their excitement over the tube men idea
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Adam Hochschild, a historian and journalist, wrote for The Atlantic that “It’s a bad week to be a racist statue.” But ending racism itself in all its forms will take much more and much longer than clearing out its old relics. “But in these tumultuous last few weeks, I’m feeling more optimistic than I have for a long time that people are taking that goal seriously,” he stated.
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This may be an unpopular opinion idk. I was born in a middle eastern communist country. when the regime changed after a revolution, people wanted to wipe away everything that represented the previous kingdom and their sufferings. they destroyed lots of art, paintings, buildings, historic monuments, sculptures, and so many more things. I know this isn't the same, but no matter how angry you are, you should never go down that path. we would have no leftovers of our history if that were the case. I don't think there was ever a regime or ruler that was completely virtuous and those sculptures tell stories or represent time passed. Maybe there are better ways to show change.
Thanks for this post. We're just repeating history here. The tearing down of statues never sit well with me. I'm African and I always get livid when I read about a statue that was torn down by missionaries then because they were deemed "evil". Now, our values have changed, the past is now the new evil and we're repeating history again.
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Air dancers make me smile every time. When my youngest was about 5 we walked by one near the blood mobile and it smacked itself hard on the ground right in front of my son. Scared the c**p out of him. To this day he makes a wide circle around them when walking by. He is 11 now.
I can understand that. Perhaps do gentle immersion therapy, get him a foot high one for his room. Go from there.
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"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"... by removing these statues, they are just making it easier to forget history and therefore making the "wash, rinse, repeat" cycle that much more likely. Incidentally, Cambodia, Vietnam, Communist China, and every other country which saw the violent installation of communism in the 20th century started exactly the same way... removal of statues, erasing history, killing of anyone who disagreed or were smart enough to know the truth... so we're now at the phase of removing statues and erasing history... I wonder what comes next...
How F-c-i-g stupid can people be!! The more you condone these people the longer it will take to move forward. Destroying property and public statues is just pathetic!
How can a monument be racist? How would remowing them and pretending it never happened help with anyone beside rich white people's conscience?
In Hungary we created a park for old communist monuments.... although it's totally different from tearing down Confederate statues. Confederate States is your history, it was a different culture, it was a different country. I kinda feel sorry for a Stonewall Jackson or Robert E. Lee statue. Both of them - as far as I know - weren't bad people. Lee fought for the Confederate States because that was his homeland. As far as I know Lincoln tried to convince him to join the North but he refused. Because he was a southerner etc. Stonewall Jakcson built numerous schools and chruches for black children etc. etc. Yes, slavery sucked, exterminating indians was way more sucked... but history isn't black or white. Tearing down statues without even knowing who they resemble is dumb. I know, who controls the past controls the future, Orwell already wrote it. Destroy the faces of stones at Mount Rushmore, the biggest monument of genocide and slavery!
Oh look....as long as the statue & monument is there its turning me racist. Please remove them so i can wake up next morning & turn into a new nice person. These evil statues!!!
It’s inappropriate to remove the statues, this is not a story to be rewritten, they are looked at and they don’t repeat mistakes. Those who are involved see this and understand that they are to blame. No need to write about Hitler here. He erected monuments for himself and also quickly removed them, they were not part of the city, the swastika was a remake and people wanted to get rid of it, that’s different. Especially it seems to me wrong if you are a newcomer and you are offended by nude statues, temples, holidays. The Russians have an expression with their charter in a new monastery, so when we change the way we live, we obey its rules and learn the language. I live in the Siberian city, he is only 100 years old and in our main square the statue of Lenin is huge. Because this city was so cut, it is here from the very beginning of the main square. And no one is going to clean it, it does not cause any special feelings, it is now bad. But then the people so wanted, a lot of good and
... Because this city was so cut, it is here from the very beginning of the main square. And no one is going to clean it, it does not cause any special feelings, it is now bad. But then the people so wanted, a lot of good and bad is connected with it. Let it stand - it's beautiful. Although my relatives suffered from dispossession, resettlement, and later my grandfather was in the Gulag, but this is very difficult, the history of many countries is bitter and sour, and there will always be people who want to destroy everything to put a plastic pikachu. My life is not a joke.
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This is a bit awkward - the hair on these 'air dancers' has always make me think of them as a joke version of rastafaris. Guess that was just me then...
This is the level of Disneyland, you understand that this is a monument of culture and history. It’s like reading comics instead of books, you have fun, but you don’t live.
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Maybe it's better to see this slave trader and think that you live in a city that is built on the suffering of other people? Awkward huh? It’s better, as a puppy to repeat the movement of an air person, you have become kinder and more fun, and the city has become ordinary now.
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I support this massage 👍 Great idea! The tube man replacement for Trump that was suggested should be orange
And what Massage do you support ? Deep tissue or Swedish Massage?
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Lol yes totally. That would definitely make me laugh every day 😂 YES WHY Not!!
a racist monument? is that a joke or are you guys that stupid what do you think of ISIS (Daesh) destroying the most beautiful ancient statues because they're representing women or other religion's entities? Judging history with today's eyes is stupid. you guys are absolute morons...
What do you think you're accomplishing when you argue semantics like that? Absolutely no one thinks a lump of stone is racist. It's just that "statue which glorifies a racist human" is a bit of a mouthful.
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It isn't the deletion of history - history is what books, museums, and schools teach us. Statues are made to celebrate someone or something. Statues glorify.
Load More Replies... We're gonna have to put a mix diversity of porn actresses though, so as to not being Racist
Load More Replies... This may be an unpopular opinion idk. I was born in a middle eastern communist country. when the regime changed after a revolution, people wanted to wipe away everything that represented the previous kingdom and their sufferings. they destroyed lots of art, paintings, buildings, historic monuments, sculptures, and so many more things. I know this isn't the same, but no matter how angry you are, you should never go down that path. we would have no leftovers of our history if that were the case. I don't think there was ever a regime or ruler that was completely virtuous and those sculptures tell stories or represent time passed. Maybe there are better ways to show change.
Thanks for this post. We're just repeating history here. The tearing down of statues never sit well with me. I'm African and I always get livid when I read about a statue that was torn down by missionaries then because they were deemed "evil". Now, our values have changed, the past is now the new evil and we're repeating history again.
Load More Replies... Air dancers make me smile every time. When my youngest was about 5 we walked by one near the blood mobile and it smacked itself hard on the ground right in front of my son. Scared the c**p out of him. To this day he makes a wide circle around them when walking by. He is 11 now.
I can understand that. Perhaps do gentle immersion therapy, get him a foot high one for his room. Go from there.
Load More Replies... "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it"... by removing these statues, they are just making it easier to forget history and therefore making the "wash, rinse, repeat" cycle that much more likely. Incidentally, Cambodia, Vietnam, Communist China, and every other country which saw the violent installation of communism in the 20th century started exactly the same way... removal of statues, erasing history, killing of anyone who disagreed or were smart enough to know the truth... so we're now at the phase of removing statues and erasing history... I wonder what comes next...
How F-c-i-g stupid can people be!! The more you condone these people the longer it will take to move forward. Destroying property and public statues is just pathetic!
How can a monument be racist? How would remowing them and pretending it never happened help with anyone beside rich white people's conscience?
In Hungary we created a park for old communist monuments.... although it's totally different from tearing down Confederate statues. Confederate States is your history, it was a different culture, it was a different country. I kinda feel sorry for a Stonewall Jackson or Robert E. Lee statue. Both of them - as far as I know - weren't bad people. Lee fought for the Confederate States because that was his homeland. As far as I know Lincoln tried to convince him to join the North but he refused. Because he was a southerner etc. Stonewall Jakcson built numerous schools and chruches for black children etc. etc. Yes, slavery sucked, exterminating indians was way more sucked... but history isn't black or white. Tearing down statues without even knowing who they resemble is dumb. I know, who controls the past controls the future, Orwell already wrote it. Destroy the faces of stones at Mount Rushmore, the biggest monument of genocide and slavery!
Oh look....as long as the statue & monument is there its turning me racist. Please remove them so i can wake up next morning & turn into a new nice person. These evil statues!!!
It’s inappropriate to remove the statues, this is not a story to be rewritten, they are looked at and they don’t repeat mistakes. Those who are involved see this and understand that they are to blame. No need to write about Hitler here. He erected monuments for himself and also quickly removed them, they were not part of the city, the swastika was a remake and people wanted to get rid of it, that’s different. Especially it seems to me wrong if you are a newcomer and you are offended by nude statues, temples, holidays. The Russians have an expression with their charter in a new monastery, so when we change the way we live, we obey its rules and learn the language. I live in the Siberian city, he is only 100 years old and in our main square the statue of Lenin is huge. Because this city was so cut, it is here from the very beginning of the main square. And no one is going to clean it, it does not cause any special feelings, it is now bad. But then the people so wanted, a lot of good and
... Because this city was so cut, it is here from the very beginning of the main square. And no one is going to clean it, it does not cause any special feelings, it is now bad. But then the people so wanted, a lot of good and bad is connected with it. Let it stand - it's beautiful. Although my relatives suffered from dispossession, resettlement, and later my grandfather was in the Gulag, but this is very difficult, the history of many countries is bitter and sour, and there will always be people who want to destroy everything to put a plastic pikachu. My life is not a joke.
Load More Replies... https://babylonbee.com/news/protesters-pull-down-joe-biden-after-mistaking-him-for-old-racist-statue
This is a bit awkward - the hair on these 'air dancers' has always make me think of them as a joke version of rastafaris. Guess that was just me then...
This is the level of Disneyland, you understand that this is a monument of culture and history. It’s like reading comics instead of books, you have fun, but you don’t live.
Load More Replies... Maybe it's better to see this slave trader and think that you live in a city that is built on the suffering of other people? Awkward huh? It’s better, as a puppy to repeat the movement of an air person, you have become kinder and more fun, and the city has become ordinary now.
Load More Replies... I support this massage 👍 Great idea! The tube man replacement for Trump that was suggested should be orange
And what Massage do you support ? Deep tissue or Swedish Massage?
Load More Replies... Lol yes totally. That would definitely make me laugh every day 😂 YES WHY Not!!
a racist monument? is that a joke or are you guys that stupid what do you think of ISIS (Daesh) destroying the most beautiful ancient statues because they're representing women or other religion's entities? Judging history with today's eyes is stupid. you guys are absolute morons...
What do you think you're accomplishing when you argue semantics like that? Absolutely no one thinks a lump of stone is racist. It's just that "statue which glorifies a racist human" is a bit of a mouthful.
Load More Replies... It isn't the deletion of history - history is what books, museums, and schools teach us. Statues are made to celebrate someone or something. Statues glorify.
Load More Replies... We're gonna have to put a mix diversity of porn actresses though, so as to not being Racist
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