People have some really messed up ideas about Christopher Columbus. That or they’re just a bunch of unhinged lunatics looking to destroy any statue of an old dude because that will somehow make our history less racist, sexist, Islamophobic, or whatever their claim it may be.
We’re not dealing with realistic or rational people here.
They have targeted statues of Columbus in multiple states, including Virginia and of course in Minnesota.
Ben Domenech was good enough to share the story and history behind this particular statue and it only made the idjits who pulled it down look even dumber.
Sculpted by an Italian immigrant who helped build Grand Central Station and his son, given as a gift during the Great Depression as a symbol of the acceptance of Italian immigrants in Minnesota. https://t.co/EviIr85fNk
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) June 11, 2020
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Wait, the statue is a symbol of acceptance?
But we were informed it’s a bad statue.
BAD!
All statues BAD! RACIST! ELEVENTY!
Carlo Brioschi came to America to pursue his dreams. He built a family, a business, and a legacy at a time when Italians were subjected to terrible treatment. Now his work is just another icon for the woke left to destroy. https://t.co/O2eFmQ81jA pic.twitter.com/v72ucc1Js6
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) June 11, 2020
Another icon they chose to destroy because they’re stupid.
Ignorant?
Something like that.
Originally conceived in 1927 by the Italian Progressive Club of Duluth, the statue was dedicated in the midst of the Great Depression as a symbol that these Italian immigrants were now accepted as fully American. https://t.co/O2eFmQ81jA pic.twitter.com/jznv7MSapB
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) June 11, 2020
And they destroyed it.
In 1931, this was Carlo Brioschi's symbol of acceptance, made with his son, Amerigo. It was so well received he was asked to make another for the Chicago World's Fair in 1933.
Today it's something for white people to stomp on. pic.twitter.com/0YHpEwuwdb
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) June 11, 2020
Look at that girl power!
Take that, statue! HEAR US ROAR!
Also, what the HELL is on her knee?
These people are morons
— Douglas M (@PsychoSix) June 11, 2020
They really are.
No offense to morons.
And you expected them to know history? Shame on you. #GodHaveMercyOnUsAll
— Kevin Barnard (@KevyB1990) June 11, 2020
If you are a historian or a museum curator, you have to be absolutely terrified by this. This was a great symbol, a reminder that America triumphs. But alas, not history or civics and you get this mindless destruction. #MAGA
— @theycallmeox (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@theycallmeox) June 11, 2020
Mindless destruction is all the Left knows.
Clearly.
