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Written by mekka okereke :verified: on 2025-02-01 at 19:30

🤔"OK fine, abolitionists designed the Statue Of Liberty, and abolitionists paid for the Statue Of Liberty, and abolitionists built the Statue of Liberty...

But what did the US government say about the Statue of Liberty when it was installed and unveiled? If all this was so woke, why weren't there woke speeches? Maybe the meaning had changed by the time it was delivered?"

Speech by the honorable Chauncey M. Depew, at the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty.

https://archive.org/details/ldpd_5655298_000/page/n9/mode/1up

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Written by LeBonk on 2025-02-01 at 21:56

@mekkaokereke

that last one in particular (about how injustices would "sort themselves out" seems contrary to the reality of social struggle basically always requiring a fight (as, indeed, it literally just did at that exact time🙃) and is indicative of a very exploitable tendency of moderates and liberals that Ian Danskin calls "values-neutral governance" https://youtu.be/MAbab8aP4_A

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Written by LeBonk on 2025-02-01 at 21:58

@mekkaokereke

also, I know enough British history to know that Cromwell is not someone i'd want to identify with given the regime he implemented and what he did in Ireland

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