If someone gave Ben Franklin a Keffiyeh he'd wear the thing around, incorrectly, for the next year. But blah blah blah desecration
He would 1000% use it to pick up women claiming he was a world traveler who has seen exotic sights (and wants to see one more exotic sight nudge nudge wink wink)
The way we remember Ben Franklin is basically just Danny Devito but slightly hornier.
He seems like he'd be pulling off those Trudeau publicity stunts constantly. You may not like it but this is what a modern Ben Franklin would be like:
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Franklin would be out there claiming to be an "octoroon" to nail more French dilletantes
Didn't Ben Franklin learn Arabic through his own copy of the Quran, or am I thinking of a different guy?
Think that was Jefferson. Supposedly he was big into studying religions, and I seem to remember the first Muslim in Congress being sworn in on the same Quran.
It was Rashida Tlaib, but I think it's an english translation of the Quran!
This was what I was thinking of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_oath_controversy_of_the_110th_United_States_Congress
Apparently the Jefferson Qu'ran thing came later and he was sworn in using a "regular" Qu'ran.
Apparently he created an edit of the bible that took out all the miracles and just focused on the stuff that could be applied to secular thought.
Handmaids Tale. A story famously about the desecration of statues of famous white American men
In conservative Handmaids Tale, all women will be strippers, but also devout Muslims wearing burkas, and also college students with blue hair. And it’s directed by an extremely horny sex pest who married his wife he’s known for 14 years when she turned 18
all women will be strippers, but also devout Muslims wearing burkas, and also college students with blue hair.
The trifecta
"Wow it's just like [entertainment] but the people I don't like are the bad guys!"At least Ben Franklin had an abolitionist arc later in life. I don't think the intent of putting a makeshift keffiyeh is to desecrate the statue. The protesters are clearly trying to be respectful and win over "moderates" here!
Not all of them, but most of them did. Shoutout to Thomas Paine for not being morally bankrupt.
The term founding fathers is an unfortunate one. It was a varied group of people with different beliefs and levels of participation. American history always makes it sound like one group of besties who hung out all the time and agreed on everything. I don't think that's what you or dirt were doing but I hear it a lot
A lot of their writings are them constantly talking shit on the other guys.
Not all of them but basically all the ones who made the history books did
I wonder how she feels about the roe v wade shit via a vis comparing to things to hand maids tale
Yah but no a small protest is definitely the same thing
Desecrated
Because the Founding Fathers are a pantheon for the American civic religion? (Answering myself, unironically yes!)
Meanwhile they'll protect the acts of burning Qurans and rendering the Prophet in insulting ways as free speech, and not inciting public religious conflict
I love how she's the self proclaimed voice of Jewish people.
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Franklin isn't holy or sacred whatever how the hell can you desecrate him.
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A pro-Palestine group putting a kufiyah on a statue is honoring it, if anything.
The American Civic religion certainly has its share of consecrated figures
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Do you think that she used "A handmaid's tale" because she was mocked for using 1984 too much, but doesn't know any other dystopian novels apart from those two?
I do now. I've been asking myself how this relates to a handmaids tale all day but I think you nailed it. It was kind of like the Brothers Karamazov, probably, I've never read it
Do the lead pipes in washington rot the memory? Do these people not remember the years between 1995 and 2014 when muslims were the designated targets? Why does Marxism curse me with this recollection of the very recent past.
desecrated his statue
With a very removable bit of desecration that isn't at all permanent. Are these people capable of thinking?
this isn't even the level of desecration drunk people will do as a laugh
that statue is less desecrated on average as they have shielded it from pigeon shit
If anything it's an act of preservation of the statue.
We need to stop liberals from using similes until we figure out what’s going on.
Philly comrades stay winning. Maybe I'll hop on the subway and go turn it into a bust with a sledge hammer.
Just a joke. I know better than to engage in silly, risky, and pointless adventurism. The sentiment stands though.
He was a slaver. So forgive me if I don't give a shit what people do to his statue.
Meghan McCain having a career is like The Man in the High Castle or some other book she's never read
