(Glenn Beck)
Here are a few statues that actually exist:
A bust of Che Guevara glaring at a hillside in Bolivia.
A statue of Lucifer in Madrid, Spain, and another in Belgium.
There are statues of Karl Marx, Stalin, and Lenin all over the world, including a statue of Lenin in Seattle.
Same goes for Mao Zedong, who is responsible for roughly 30 million deaths.
Just outside a former ghetto in Warsaw, there was a statue of Hitler kneeling in prayer. (It sold for $17 million at Christies in New York).
There's a monument to a fascist soldier in Chicago that was gifted by Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini adored.
A large statue of a naked man standing on naked women in a cemetery in Brooklyn.
There's a statue of a policewoman urinating in Dresden, Germany.
There's the infamous "Manneken Pis" statue in Brussels, which features a little boy peeing into a pond and is, frankly, hilarious (they dress him up in little outfits depending on the season or holidays).
Here's a list of things that have been branded racist in the past couple of years:
- Dogs/dog-walking.
- 911 calls.
- Body scanners.
- Classic literature/philosophy.
- Milk.
- Knitting.
- Being cheerful.
- Not being cheerful.
- Friendliness.
- Not being friendly enough.
- Libraries.
- Clowns.
- The Avengers.
- Diets.
- Infant mortality rates (that one comes from none other than Kamala Harris, by the way, who tweeted that "implicit racial bias is one critical reason that the maternal mortality rate for Black women is three to four times higher than white women." She blamed maternal mortality rates on racism.)
- Makeup.
- Personal space.
- Vikings.
- Potatoes.
- Inclusion.
- Burger King commercials.
- Okie-doke hand signs.
- Rainbows.
- Compliments.
- Childbirth.
- House plants
- Nail polish.
- Bacon (The New York Times made this flawless argument in an article titled "Donald Trump is Trying to Kill You").
- Trying to improve racial tensions.
- Not focusing constantly on racial tensions.
- Mentioning racial tensions.
- Existence (if white).
I could list of examples of perceived racism all day, because that seems to be the new standard: Everything is somehow racist. Every facet of life. Frankly, it's exhausting.
And, as you know, there's an incredible amount of overlap between statutes and perceived racism. I don't have to give you any examples, you already know what I'm talking about, but I will say that they've included Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Scott Key, Abraham Lincoln, and Joan of Arc, among many, many others.
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