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mk · 1130 days ago · link · · parent · post: Thomas Jefferson statue coming down in New York's City Council chamber : NPR
Ironic that those good ideas allow us to choose what to do with the statue. I disagree. We all have baggage and the lens of history will increase its impact. We factory farm and eat patented seeds and fly in planes and heat our homes with coal and wear clothes made by poverty stricken peoples in serfdom and use phones made in factories with suicide nets made with materials mined by children and the list goes on and on and we don't care enough for our descendents.Carrying the baggage of the human being along with their ideas is pointless and destructive to the actual numerical majority of Americans.