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In reply to the discussion: Agree or disagree: Iconic WW2-era photo should be removed [View all]
FalloutShelter
(14,206 posts)30. I agree.
Let’s stop trying to erase the past and concentrate on the “fierce urgency of NOW”.
Where’s all of the me to outrage over Trump the rapist of Gaetz the pedo?
Let’s stop raking over the cold coals of the past and concentrate on the NOW.
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Partially conceding to your point, anything's possible without statements from both of them.
no_hypocrisy
Mar 2024
#18
Many couples have recaptured the joy of the winning the war in this photo as engagement or even
jimfields33
Mar 2024
#7
Stay. It's a glimpse into the euphoria of the time and place. This wasn't the only scene where people grabbed
Liberal In Texas
Mar 2024
#15
OMG how idiotic and stupid. There is such a thing as too politically correct and I ain't that. nt
GuppyGal
Mar 2024
#19
We're on the precipice of an autocratic takeover of our country. In that context I think focusing on this is ridiculous.
jalan48
Mar 2024
#35
I never said remove the post and didn't didn't intend this to be a personal attack on your response.
jalan48
Mar 2024
#44
No it should not...is is iconic. And seriously we have more important stuff to do.
Demsrule86
Mar 2024
#27
FFS, learn some history. It was the end of WWII. People in the US were ecstatic, after living with rationing and
sinkingfeeling
Mar 2024
#34
Her hand is gripped into a fist. She has been literally yanked off her feet. Her neck is pinioned in the crook of his
Scrivener7
Mar 2024
#36
I don't feel attacked. I am used to often disagreeing with the majority here on
Scrivener7
Mar 2024
#82
I agree with your visual analysis of the image, but in retrospect, she seems to be OK with it.
Ms. Toad
Mar 2024
#110
The curl of her fingers is not that of someone caught up in a joyful moment
ThreeNoSeep
Mar 2024
#53
HER perspective, quoted in that article, is what has been missing in this thread so far. It's pretty damning.
Scrivener7
Mar 2024
#90
Do you see something in her words in the CBS article that contradicts her words in the WAPO article?
Scrivener7
Mar 2024
#99
No, Ms. Toad! I know you didn't suggest it illustrates American values! I think you
Scrivener7
Mar 2024
#135
There are NO politics in this Pulitzer Prize winning photo, just the exuberance of victory.
ProudMNDemocrat
Mar 2024
#56
Given that the woman involved was not offended and participated in a re-enactment many years later, this is just
ratchiweenie
Mar 2024
#62
The idea that it is even a question is a big reason we might get a lunatic moron (Trump) in the WH
gulliver
Mar 2024
#76
I'm glad I'm old. This kind of stuff sounds ridiculous. Can't believe it is even being debated.
walkingman
Mar 2024
#85
She could come back from the dead and lecture the people who seem to think they speak for her in the thread
BannonsLiver
Mar 2024
#113