indeed do many things come to pass

[redbird]

This wasn't on my 2021 Bingo card: posting on File 770 that "I agree with Dann655. Dann showed up during the Sad Puppies/Hugo slate/etc. events, supporting the puppies, with the kind of politics that would imply. He stayed around and even talks about books once in a while, and today we are in agreement that insurrection is wrong, whether right- or left-wing.

The person in question has clarified that he's doing a both-sides-ism, as if Black Lives Matter protests were even a little like the fascist attempted coup last week.

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[minoanmiss]

ugh. fie upon him.

Someone should ask him if a single BLM protestor took a dump in a public building's hallways.

[voidampersand]

He cannot see his cognitive biases.

[adrian_turtle]

Back in June, BLM protestors surrounded President Andrew Jackson where he was sitting on his horse near the White House. They attacked him with spray paint and ropes, and very nearly brought him down before the Park Police drove them off and arrested some of them.
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/23/881983918/jackson-statue-near-white-house-still-standing-after-protesters-fail-to-topple-i

This is a different kind of offense than threatening Mike Pence with a gallows near the White House. Much as I hate Pence, he is a human being.

[minoanmiss]

FWIW, as a student of history, I would approve of putting a paint-doused Jackson statue in a museum with a historical note rather than leaving The US's First Serial Killer President on his plinth to be revered. ANd yeah, bringing down a statue is different than threatening actual people's lives. From what I've read the crowd concentrated on DEmocrats's offices, women's offices and the offices of lawmakers of color. Ayanna Pressley's office had all the panic buttons torn out.

But I wasn't being metaphorical about the defecations in the hallways. The insurrectionists last week also did that.

[adrian_turtle]

I suspect a museum could get pretty badly overwhelmed with heroic-looking statues of racists. Having one doused in paint with a modern message at least makes it clear, and doesn't leave the museum guides trying to explain.

[minoanmiss]

I think it would make for an excellent museum all its own. "The museum of assholes we used to adulate". Each would have two cards: one about when and why the statue went up, and one about when and why the statue came down.

[moem]

Has someone explained to them yet that both-side-isms are not actually a good thing to do?