Tiki nazis want their own Fyre Island event, discover no one will foot the bill.
…will have an event at a later time when we have everything we need to secure our perimeters legally and have a successful event,”
You were planning on securing them illegally? Is that right??
Are you afraid of the dark cupcake? Does the monster under your bed follow you about? Don’t be afraid, take mommie with you.
It should be noted that the Lee monument on Stone Mountain sculpture was started by famed sculptor Gutzon Borglum (of Mount Rushmore fame), but work on it ended in 1925, with only preliminary roughs completed of part of Lee.
If the racists of the state of Georgia has left it at that, the rudimentary beginning by Borglum could well be preserved as an historic artifact.
But what happened was that in the late 1950s, as a protest against the Civil Rights movement, the state funded a project to “complete” the monument.
The very first thing this project did was to strip everything Borglum had done from the rock face. That’s right, not a single chisel mark Borglum made is left. Everything there is a new composition chiseled on the mountain in the 1960s to celebrate white supremacy.
Personally, I think the mountain should be blasted bare, just as they did to Borglum’s work.
If not, they should add a larger image of Lee, as he directs his overseer to whip a naked slave for disobedience, an event for which we have solid historical documentation.
If the racists don’t like it, there is always the dynamite.
It’s too bad ISIS was defeated by Dotard, Stone Mountain would have been a perfect target…
Perhaps carve a representation of Sherman marching through Georgia instead.
Besides the purpose and provenance being detestable, the work itself is fucking D-grade awful.
Blast it clean and since that will leave a huge chiseled field, inscribe the Gettysburg address across the whole thing in 20-foot high letters.
Perhaps, in the negotiations with the Taliban, we can get the anti-aircraft guns, artillery, mines, drills, and any remaining dynamite and rockets that they used to destroy the Buddhas of Bamiyan.
HATE isn’t welcome in AMERICA!
I wish that hideous carving was gone. We used to live in a subdivision just a couple of miles from St. Mountain. I’ve climbed the mountain many times with my huskies. Used to bicycle the road around the mountain. My husband and I went there many times to have breakfast over a campfire.
It is an impressive extrusion of rock (quartz monsonite). Then someone had the bright idea of carving a Confederate monument on the side which defaces the rock. What a shame.
The Park around Stone Mtn. has gotten too cute with all the tacky “southern” tourist crap. I’m glad we live on the opposite side of the continent now so I don’t have to see it. That wretched carving will always be known as the “Scab” as far as I’m concerned. Even if it is blasted off the beautiful dark grey patina and surface will never be the same. Another atrocity in the name of the wretched Confederacy.
EDIT: When I first moved to Atlanta in the early 60’s after graduating from college Stone Mtn. was NOT the attraction it is today. A date drove me out to the mountain which had a large dump next to it. In those days it was known for KKK rallies that took place on it. Happily I never saw any of those. Apparently it is attracting those people again.
Another pathetic fold by the in-bred lunatics trying to prove how superior they are. This is the Republican party in all it’s glory. Is anyone surprised?
It truly is a wretched relief sculpture. Poor proportions…just flat ugly.
The authorities set up hurdles? Great idea! Hard to jump over hurdles in a long white robe.
I hear Vladivostok is nice this time of year…
The anti-fascist protesters are correct.
The freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution do not extend to those who do not support the freedom for all.
The Second Inaugural would be more to the point.
There’s been a petition circulated to decrease the White-supremacy element of the carving.
I saw the Stone Mountain laser light show way back in 1993.
It was mostly generic entertainment until the end when it degenerated into lots of “The South’s Gonna Rise Again!” insanity, with the locals whooping it up.
I was glad when it was over. Ugh.
If ever the pilots at nearby Pensacola Naval Air Station need practice with live ordnance, I think I just found the perfect target.