Steve Kelley for June 28, 2020

Poor Kelley is going to sorely miss systemic racism.

Don’t think about racism, and it will go away. Been trying it fir 150yrs, why do anything different. Right Kelly. Pence has a new strategy, pray the racism away. That will work just as well as praying the gay away

Maybe the world should have thought more about equality and decency… then the riots would never have happened… DUH. Kelley is (natch) blaming the victim. But that is what one does as a conservative these days… never take responsibility for your own shittiness.

Interesting that Kelley confuses Rodin’s sculpture with a statue of people who enslaved others. For the most part, the statues in question are of people who fought against this nation in order to preserve slavery. Some of the statues in question are of people who fought to create this nation as a slave-holding nation. Kelley misses a couple of obvious points: 1) sculptures are art while statues are hagiography. 2) statues do not teach history but tell us what we should believe despite history.

The one that troubles me is the statue of Ulysses S. Grant. That one is the result of pure ignorance. But having said that, I have a feeling that Grant wouldn’t care, and if he did, he would trade every statute (and every $50 bill, for that matter) for a country which believed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, and which put an end to white supremacy.

Mob rule, as in the current Senate.

Now Steve is being Henry Payne stupid.

Rodin was into slavery?

Republicans at it again?

If some people were turned into brain eating zombies, Hair Gropingfuror, his MAGAts, and Reich wing cartoonists would be perfectly safe (with apologies to The Simpsons).

Don’t worry Steve, that piece of art is in a garden behind museum walls in Paris, and we Americans are not allowed to go there now. It is safe for now.

The Thinker left Kelly’s brain a long time ago.

Quick reminder, this Nation was founded on illegal acts of destruction and the breaking of sacred oaths to the ruling power by most of the ‘Founding Fathers’. And didn’t you already embarrass yourself with a carton on this subject? Did Trump pay you for second one?

I have a proposal which could solve the problem of Confederate monuments. The Confederate government should pay for them, including rent on the land where they stand. If they don’t pay, the US government should take them down.

well said, cdward.

If the TINKER could Think: What were Republicans “thinking” when voting for Trump ?

Why is Kelly depicting Rodin’s artwork being pulled down, why not show an actual historical person’s statue being pulled down ? Is it because he knows that the people who actually had their statues pulled down do not deserve a statue anywhere ?

Yet it’s Republicans who defund public schools, and promote anti-science “thinking”…

The mob mentality wants to destroy all of history – not just slave owners. All statues representing anything they don’t like or agree with. But then, what do they like?

For all Kelley and trumpista claims about “antifa” and the violence from the Left, the major source of violence in the US today is from the Right.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-united-states

Better than the armed right wing fascist boogaloo suicide thugs with out masks screaming obscenely stupid nonsense in your face about civil & race war.

The idiot in the WH has done more damage to logical thinking than the worst of histories despots. Where is the thoughtful leadership from the Guardians Of Poop? Is Moscow Mitch even capable of intelligent thought?

Interesting thing about “riot mobs”: they’re not actually a mindless swarm. According to research done on the 2011 riots in the UK, rioters set specific parameters and targets for themselves. I know Tucker Carlson likes to talk about “the mob”, but rioters actually understand what they are doing. MLK Jr. said: “Rioting is the language of the unheard.” The media doesn’t pay enough attention to peaceful protests, so the rioters decide that, if their demands are going to be heeded, they need to cause a lot more disturbance.

It seems to me that our national politicians are simply not scared enough of being voted out of office. Contrast that with state and local governments, which have much more productive. For example, in my home state of Colorado, we rapidly passed a police reform bill, that will go into effect in 2023. Our protests are a lot more peaceful (notable exception in Alamosa).

Kelley is not “confused.” Kelley just likes to distort an issue so that nothing positive can result!

The statue is entitled ‘Think’. Which is what I suggest conservative cartoonist do before they post ridiculous nonsense such as this.

That guy in the green shirt (which should be red) is obviously a graduate of the Wile.E. Coyote school of Engineering.

As a historian, I find it interesting that all of a sudden people think that statues teach history.

What kinda idiots does Kelley think his readers are?

I was “thinking” about voting for Joe. Thanks mob for reminding me why I will support DJT 2020.

Kelley is very familiar with the MAGA Mob so this one makes sense.

From what I have been seeing from the too many people in this country is I’m to important to worry about any one else, where did the come from?

So far, Steve Kelley is the only individual i’ve seen/heard even suggest the removal of “The Thinker”. Leaves me wondering why such a thought occurred to him.

The stupidity of the Right is staggering…guess we now know why they are such big fans of home schooling…

The only problem is, allowing mobs to tear down whatever they’re offended by, or tearing it down for them, will not make them go away. It emboldens them. There will always be something new that offends them around every corner. Sooner or later they come for people who offend them.