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[–] CANCEL-CAT-FACTS 7 points 30 points (+37|-7) ago  (edited ago)

Lady Liberty is a white woman for the precise reason that she represents enlightened eurpoean values, which only come from white people. Any attempt to co-opt her image is a treasonous repudiation of civilization.

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[–] IndigoElectric [S] 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

Fair enough, let me ask this though: wouldn't that mean whites couldn't portray themselves in native americans with their feather headdresses?

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[–] CANCEL-CAT-FACTS 0 points 24 points (+24|-0) ago 

Not on Indian currency. They wouldn't allow it.

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[–] Seventh_Jim 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The word "couldn't" is an odd choice. It suffices that the symbol falls flat when divorced from the ethnicity it is born of.

White people will never have the proper appreciation of the barbaric shamanism of the native american tribes. Not because white people never had barbaric shamanism, but because they had a different kind.

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[–] Foralltoosee 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Keep in mind that in this example, publicly funded forces would select to dress a White person up as a native and then say that it is an appropriate representation of native peoples, and suggest others use it as well. Don't think you're going to see that anywhere.

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[–] CANCEL-CAT-FACTS 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

They are not appropriating; they are erasing. The enlightenment values that descend from euopean history are from one source only, the white civilization.