People Removed These 29 Statues Because They Stood For What’s Wrong With Humans

I don't think that Hanks has ever played a dad as primary role. I vote for Steve Martin. Terry Crews may be gaining on him, though.

If they fired Lisa Bonet for appearing topless in angelheart what were they supposing to do with him, billionaire refund ?

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YOU ARE A F*****G R****D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He was found guilty in a court of law. Would rather go by them than you.

This was before he was found out.

It's a genuine question, yes, but a stupid one; all of the memorials/statues etc in this article were or are being removed because it was discovered after they were erected that the persons they were in memory of turned out to be monsters, or that they didn't deserve to be celebrated due to also being monsters by modern standards ( ergo, Columbus and other slave-traders). Please use some common sense when asking questions, the answer is already in the article & it should be painfully obvious regardless...

Guys, please don't down vote people who ask genuine questions.

Oh, I see - thanks for clarifying.

He won a lot of football games for Penn State.

He wasn't rather nasty. He was evil.

You know the worst over all this ? It's not learned in schools in Belgium. I know, I live here.

Weird I live in Belgium and I have learned this.

That is the correct way to deal with these statues- destroying them won't help to educate people in the future about who the person was and what they did, good and bad ( I understand the statue was erected originally because of his philanthropic work around Bristol- shame he was also a slave-murdering a-hole ) that lead to them getting a statue, and then having it taken down.

And he's a prick.

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With a Russian first name? Seriously doubt it

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And even IF s he was a Native ? What would that change ? Nothing.

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Hello sweetie, it's only fair to me as a white boy to remove all Martin Luther King statues because they are racist and offensive to me. They weren't offensive to me before this nonsense but now they are sweetie it's only fair. Make both sides happy!

I'm not actually demanding anything, I have no claims to make one way or the other. I'm saying it's completely hypocritical to go around tearing statues down while actively benefiting from the actions of said individual. I'm also not going to claim the Columbus himself was particularity terrible by the standards of his time. He sailed to make a name for himself and money for his sponsors and he did just that. People have been killing each other for personal gain for thousands of years. How about instead of being outraged by the actions of a man who's been dead and buried longer than most of us have been alive combined we come up with actions that can actively help people who are currently alive? Why don't the protesters go marching around demanding better policies, more rights and protections? It takes nothing to tear down a statue while being outraged on behalf of those long dead. Making an actual difference is unfortunately way more complicated.

My rant went for so long it didn't fit into a single reply))) I'm not even saying the statue belongs where it was. Move it to a museum, create a good educational program there highlighting the consequences (good and bad) that followed Columbus' actions. That would be more beneficial in my opinion. It's not just this particular case, every time people cry 'this person was a monster and that's why he did that' they oversimplify things and create a path for the worst parts of history to repeat themselves.

hear, hear. As a fellow Canadian, I feel the same way. My ancestors were not in Canada til the 1900s so they were not responsible either, but as well as acknowledging the problem we also need to realize some of us know no other home, and cannot go back where we came from because we came from here. Tearing down statues is a momentary thing, and we cannot deny history by that kind of action, but we can make it easier for it to be forgotten. And that is wrong too.