The dark history of Mount Rushmore - Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means
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Date: 2021-12-16
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kristof
I personally find the idea of removing Mount Rushmore to be ridiculous. While I agree that hat happened to the Natives was terrible, it's one of America's national landmarks and one of its best tourist attractions. It immortalizes leaders whose individual contributions layed the groundwork of what would become the United States of America, and deserve to be honored. That's like wanting to replace Notre Dame cathedral with a Mosque because of the terrible acts committed Crusaders and Spanish Inquisitors. Even if it has a dark past, it's still the symbol of a country, and standing on a soapbox, yelling that it should be removed doesn't make you any more of a moral person.
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I personally find the idea of removing Mount Rushmore to be ridiculous. While I agree that hat happened to the Natives was terrible, it's one of America's national landmarks and one of its best tourist attractions. It immortalizes leaders whose individual contributions layed the groundwork of what would become the United States of America, and deserve to be honored. That's like wanting to replace Notre Dame cathedral with a Mosque because of the terrible acts committed Crusaders and Spanish Inquisitors. Even if it has a dark past, it's still the symbol of a country, and standing on a soapbox, yelling that it should be removed doesn't make you any more of a moral person.
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Titus
So many (rightly) criticized ISIS when they destroyed cultural sites like Palmira but now those same people are arguing for the destruction of Mt. Rushmore.
I'm not even American but I think a civilized society should preserve cultural history, even if it's not from the good guys.
Instead of destroying Mt Rushmore, an interpretation center should be built to educate tourists and give a historical and cultural context.
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So many (rightly) criticized ISIS when they destroyed cultural sites like Palmira but now those same people are arguing for the destruction of Mt. Rushmore.
I'm not even American but I think a civilized society should preserve cultural history, even if it's not from the good guys.
Instead of destroying Mt Rushmore, an interpretation center should be built to educate tourists and give a historical and cultural context.
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13ccasto
Honor treaties! And does visiting Mt Rushmore actually bring joy and happiness to road-tripping patriotic suburbanites, looking at the not-so-impressive-in-person busts of people they never knew and didn't actually serve them (while the could be enjoying a relatively less spoiled beautiful natural environment and actual culture?
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Honor treaties! And does visiting Mt Rushmore actually bring joy and happiness to road-tripping patriotic suburbanites, looking at the not-so-impressive-in-person busts of people they never knew and didn't actually serve them (while the could be enjoying a relatively less spoiled beautiful natural environment and actual culture?
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ted_ed
Sounds like more communist propaganda. Tear down this statue, tear down that monument, because it offended somebody from the past. Erase history nobody will know about it, right Ted.
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Sounds like more communist propaganda. Tear down this statue, tear down that monument, because it offended somebody from the past. Erase history nobody will know about it, right Ted.
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Julyan
doesn't the tribe who lost their mountain get royalties from the mount Rushmore?
by comparison look at tribes who lost their land and didn't get one cent
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doesn't the tribe who lost their mountain get royalties from the mount Rushmore?
by comparison look at tribes who lost their land and didn't get one cent
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ArmyStayEngene
This video is proof that no matter how many treaties are formed, sooner or later it's always the indigenous tribes or people that are at a loss.
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This video is proof that no matter how many treaties are formed, sooner or later it's always the indigenous tribes or people that are at a loss.
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Hakim
Everywhere the US goes death and destruction follows. My condolences goes to Americans (non whites and Natives) for what they had been through.
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Everywhere the US goes death and destruction follows. My condolences goes to Americans (non whites and Natives) for what they had been through.
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Reyven
This is the most imperialist thing that I have witnessed, stealing lands from the natives using treaties that they themselves violate.
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This is the most imperialist thing that I have witnessed, stealing lands from the natives using treaties that they themselves violate.
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Addy98
It's time kids start learning all of American history in public school, not just the complimentary parts Europeans want to tell.
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It's time kids start learning all of American history in public school, not just the complimentary parts Europeans want to tell.
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