Thread for statue vandalism of anti-slavery figures and other random persons

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

I would love to be able to say that the damage was caused by alt-right types who insinuated themselves into the protestors, to make the Protestors and BLM look bad.  But, I have no evidence of that.

Where there's smoke...

Infiltration and incitement of anti-establishment groups across the political spectrum by all tiers of law enforcement is common. Presuming that out-of-character acts of violence are incited or carried out by state actors should be the default assumption.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

What, in the long run, should happen with Stone Mountain?



Blowing the relief off the mountain will likely draw comparisons to this:


On the other hand, the relief is nakedly a monument to the worst of the Confederacy, and openly a "sacred site" to the KKK. It opened in 1965 on the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

And does it make any difference that when the then-proprietors took a dislike to the original work they'd commissioned (by white nationalist Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum), they demo'd  in 1928?