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Quixote1818

(28,955 posts)
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:44 AM Aug 2017

I think the Stone Mountain sculpture will eventually come down



Just like with gay marriage the country is moving left on these things. I think it's probably too early to go after Stone Mountain but give it five or ten years and it will eventually be gone.
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Warpy

(111,305 posts)
1. It might gradually get defaced over the same period
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 12:46 AM
Aug 2017

too many people are disgusted by the neo Confederates and other assorted Nazi riffraff to leave it unmolested.

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)
6. It's carved from a nearly vertical wall of solid granite. Gonna be hard to deface.
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 01:25 AM
Aug 2017

The monstrosity will have to be blasted and chiseled away. It is possible to do. However, we'll have to get rid of the Georgia GOP's iron clad grip on our state first.

Warpy

(111,305 posts)
7. Drunks in the wee hours can do a lot of damage
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 01:31 AM
Aug 2017

Oh, it'll be a missing nose, a chipped beard, a hat missing a rim. However, it will accumulate.

But yes, eventually even GA will get sick of the massive corruption of one party rule. The change won't happen until some brave soul sues to get rid of those hackable voting machines.

 

Humanist_Activist

(7,670 posts)
4. Its an impressive technical achievement, a large amount of it probably due to...
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 01:16 AM
Aug 2017

the material that it was carved from, but that doesn't warrant its preservation. I do wonder if there's a way to partially restore the rockface to what it was, pre-bas-relief, and if not, carve Outcast into it.


CottonBear

(21,596 posts)
5. I've seen it in person. It ain't art for sure.
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 01:18 AM
Aug 2017

Ironically, the city of Stone Mountain is a majority black community.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain,_Georgia

The State of Georgia owns Stone Mountain and the infamous bas relief Confederate monument.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Mountain

LenaBaby61

(6,976 posts)
9. "Possible to put another one next to it?
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 02:49 AM
Aug 2017

One with Confederate soldiers waving the white surrender flag."

Mister Ed

(5,942 posts)
11. Replace it with a bas-relief of Harriet Tubman, leading a group of slavery refugees.
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 06:35 AM
Aug 2017

Now there's a display of courage and heroism.

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