PugJesus@lemmy.world to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 3 months agoLegitimately ugly rulelemmy.worldimagemessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up11.12Karrow-down10
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minus-squaretraches@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up169·3 months agoThey didn’t even clean up the rubble
minus-squarealcoholicorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up155·3 months agoThat was intentional, the klansman who built it didn’t choose a place that was culturally significant to the indigenous people by accident.
minus-squareTrack_Shovel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51·3 months agoI’m not American, but the isopods that live with me under the same rock weren’t aware that this was made by Klansmen
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up74·3 months agoThe lead sculptor was involved with the KKK when it revived in the 1920s
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up52·3 months agoiirc they ran out of money and weren’t even able to make it look the way they intended. Like they planned for it to have a 5th face or wanted to do full bodies or something like that but they couldn’t get it done
minus-squareNomecks@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up42·edit-23 months agoThey didn’t bother to check what the mountain was made of. The answer was granite.
minus-squareH1jAcK@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up43·3 months agoThey thought they knew what it was made of, but took their assumptions for granite
They didn’t even clean up the rubble
That was intentional, the klansman who built it didn’t choose a place that was culturally significant to the indigenous people by accident.
I’m not American, but the isopods that live with me under the same rock weren’t aware that this was made by Klansmen
The lead sculptor was involved with the KKK when it revived in the 1920s
Don’t worry - most Americans don’t know either.
iirc they ran out of money and weren’t even able to make it look the way they intended. Like they planned for it to have a 5th face or wanted to do full bodies or something like that but they couldn’t get it done
They didn’t bother to check what the mountain was made of. The answer was granite.
They thought they knew what it was made of, but took their assumptions for granite