Protesters Say Statue Tripped

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Paul Musgrave @profmusgrave Jun 7
Protesters Say Statue Tripped, Fell Into Water

thread:

Link to tweet

Bristol George Floyd protest: Slave Trader statue toppled
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/edward-colston-statue-history-slave-trader-bristol-protest

[Solly Mack]

1. Shit happens. Weird shit. Strange shit. Oh, well.

Moving right along.

[rurallib]

2. That OP made me laugh out loud

good way to start the day.

[Mike 03]

5. Me too!

[onethatcares]

8. Me three

and

[Alex4Martinez]

48. Four!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. +1

[Hav]

3. Let's wait for the results of the internal investigation

before jumping to conclusions. That statue wasn't a saint.

[The Polack MSgt]

12. +++

[smirkymonkey]

4. That twitter threat is hilarious!

[FakeNoose]

19. Yes it has so many good comments

... and it keeps growing too. Checkout the Twitter thread!

[crickets]

36. It's golden hilarity, just made my Monday. I can't stop reading and watching

all of the amazing videos. Way to go, Bristol!

[Ford_Prefect]

6. I can think of a few other public "monuments" to racism who could do with a similar dunking.

Hope y'all have yo water wings handy, boys. The Potomac is kinda cold this time of year.

[Submariner]

9. A paintball gun attack on the Stone Mountain sculpture of slavery supporters

would be a good start to getting a conversation going about finally chipping that racist trash off that giant boulder.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. I had in mind a few of those breathing "monuments" who pretend to serve the people.

A good dunking is the least they deserve, assuming they can swim that is...

[mopinko]

11. a small fire would be appropriate.

a big fire might just crack that stone.

[lagomorph777]

13. All those racist statues could become a hazard to navigation!

Better to melt them down and make something useful, such as MLK statues.

[secondwind]

7. What a beautiful sight! I worry about these young people

out there daily, some with no masks......

😩

[alfredo]

39. A shipment of masks For protestors got hijacked by cops.

[Northof American]

14. Thought it Was Andy Borowitz

Funny as Hell nonetheless! Durec.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. Did a Buffalo police tourist give it a shove?

KY...........

[IronLionZion]

16. I saw the statue jump and scream "F BLM" and "F Antifa" as it entered the water.

It was self inflicted so really it was a statue suicide. The people nearby were just doing their jobs to protect and serve.

[mysteryowl]

17. Fantastic!!

[malaise]

18. I watched the video

That was one hell of a trip

[Locrian]

20. stop resisting, stop resisting! - n/t

[nilram]

38. Oh, that'd be a great chant!

[Granny M]

21. Perfect.

I'm sure that's exactly what happened.

[FailureToCommunicate]

22. That statue CLEARLY had pre-existing conditions that lead to his sinking underwater so

quickly.

Couldn't be helped.

Not our fault.

[dalton99a]

24. +1

[H2O Man]

23. Recommended.

[Shell_Seas]

26. Where was this? In the UK?

[barbtries]

33. yes. in Bristol nt

[samsingh]

27. tripped and fell by itself

[ellie]

28. That was a great read!

Thanks! Oh, and fuck Edward Colston

[burrowowl]

29. Excellent!

[niyad]

30. The Guardian article is well worth the read.

[ecstatic]

31. Good riddance! Can't believe that statue was still there in 2020

It's time for every statue celebrating the slave trade to be torn down.

[barbtries]

32. the entire thread is priceless.

Link to tweet

Susan Collins reported to be Deeply Disturbed; Doctors standing by, lest she become Profoundly Disappointed.

Link to tweet

Look, I’d need to see the video of what happened before the incident, but I heard the statue was told to move because of the curfew and refused, so there’s that...

[DashOneBravo]

49. That's the best part

[BComplex]

34. I liked this tweet:

Radio Free Amanda 余美娜
@catcontentonly
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20h
FWIW I’ve noticed that protesters have done a much better job distributing masks and hand sanitizer in the past week than the government has in five months

[UTUSN]

35. First time a NON-Borowitz title fooled me thinking it *was* Borowitz!1

Over the past couple of years when DUers post a BOROWITZ title in the subject line without attribution there, some preposterous premise about SHITLER, something too good to be true, I've gotten to be able to spot BOROWITZ before opening the O.P.

Lately, I've fallen for the trap, not spotting BOROWITZ a couple of times.

This O.P. title is the first time I thought it was BOROWITZ when it wasn't.

[Aristus]

37. All he did was engage in the slave trade.

Let's see if he had marijuana in his system or disciplinary problems in school. Then we'll consider it justified.

[BrightKnight]

40. His company dumped abt 20k bodies in the ocean.

They should erect a plaque commemorating the righteous citizens that put his statue where it belongs.

[SunSeeker]

41. K & R & Retweeted!

[Hekate]

42. Truly a beautiful thing

He just tripped.

[Hekate]

43. VERY CLARIFYING: "This was not an attack on history. This is history."

Recommend the entire article at link.

[JPPaverage]

44. Wow. The statue must be clumsy.

Imagine tripping while just standing there.

[bearssoapbox]

45. Must have been trying to stand there and chew gum st the same time.

[warmfeet]

46. Racists, and their treasured statues,

have a nasty habit of tripping and falling.

How unfortunate.

[gristy]

47. Quite the commentary at The Guardian link

last paragraph:

Now is not the time for those who for so long defended the indefensible to contort themselves into some new, supposedly moral stance, or play the victim. Their strategy of heel-dragging and obfuscation was predicated on one fundamental assumption: that what happened on Sunday would never happen. They were confident that black people and brown people who call Bristol their home would forever tolerate living under the shadow of a man who traded in human flesh, that the power to decide whether Colston stood or fell lay in their hands. They were wrong on every level. Whatever is said over the next few days, this was not an attack on history. This is history. It is one of those rare historic moments whose arrival means things can never go back to how they were.

And I must say that the photo in the OP is just beyond amazing. One for the history books.