"Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down," King tweeted on Monday. "They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been."
He also argued that all "murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down," calling them "a gross form white supremacy... tools of oppression [and] Racist propaganda."
King is no fringe figure, either - the well-known racial justice activist rose to prominence through the Black Lives Matter movement and most recently served as a surrogate for Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who sought the Democrat presidential nomination.
His tweets came just a day after conservative pundits predicted the statue-smashing spree would come after Jesus.
For several weeks now, protesters across the US have targeted "racist" statues - starting with generals who fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War, but quickly moving onto Christopher Columbus, President Ulysses S. Grant, and others, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, two of the Founding Fathers of the US.
Not even the monument to the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry - an African-American regiment that fought in the Civil War - was spared vandalism. Meanwhile, the Natural History Museum in New York has decided to remove the statue of 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt, saying that its depictions of Native Americans and Africans made it a "hurtful symbol of systemic racism."
Comment: Why isn't anyone going after the more obvious racist presidents, like LBJ?
Trump tweeted, "Ridiculous, don't do it!" in regards to removing FDR's statue. Many are pressing the alarm over this dangerous destroying of history by the radical left.
King's tweet amounted to inciting federal hate crimes, argued conservative filmmaker Mike Cernovich, comparing it to the Ku Klux Klan's terror campaign against churches.
Some laughed it off with memes daring the "woke" activists to actually try.
This would not be King's first controversy. In 2019, he falsely claimed the killing of a 7-year-old black girl in Houston was a racially motivated hate crime. In 2018, he falsely accused a Texas state trooper of rape. He has also been accused by other Black Lives Matter activists of embezzling or misusing donations sent his way.
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Because, the "ANTI-SEMITE" slur has much more money behind it then the RACIST one.
Read this excellent article by Crystal Clark from Drowning in Absurdity.
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That's racist.
Can't find anything on that. Plenty of stuff on the cross-eyed dude they're not sure is Jesus or John The Baptist though.
Looks a bit like a pink person to me.
Not that it matters all that much.
Whatever happened to "It's in the grooves what counts" or whatever?
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E.g. "woke" vs. "awakened".
Unaware of any lists, although when I come across words or acronyms I don't know, adding 'urban' (as in urban dictionary) to them in a search usually finds what I'm seeking.
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PropagandisedDrank the Kool-Aid; asked for more.Why I'm not surprised ? Growing up in a Leftist dictatorship, I was used to this extensive Orwellain re-definition of words and meanings. Why should they stop now ... ???
i.e. there was a movement that was causing the sheep to become woke, then to avoid people sleepy people understanding more about being woke they just changed the definition. It now means the total opposite of what it once did
I don't watch mainstream news, and certainly not US mainstream news. And I think it's still not worth it.
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*Twain: P.s., If I'd been editor, it would have ended "see it happen." Yep. I would have the audacity to edit Twain, provided he was around to gripe about it.
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"see him do it" suggest suicide but it wasn't so dramatic
As I recall, that was around the same time that he also said " 'Humor is tragedy plus time.'"
The no-suicide is my editorial point exactly.
There are certain natural varnishes and preservatives for cellolose-like substances (wood, linen) that darken over time. And those were known and in use for centuries.
Either way, that's just you getting sucked into divide-and-conquer meat puppet arguments.
Mozart was an Ethiopean....[Link]
Beethoven was black....[Link]
King George was black, The Vikings were black, Jesus was black, Henry VIII was black, Shakespeare was black....[Link]
Stop the madness.
My Mum is gonna be so surprised!
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*Yeah, right.
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I'm definitely a better pianist than any of the Vikings were, and probably considerably handier at fisticuffs than Beethoven was.
LOL