25 Responses to “El Paso”

1. Phantom, on September 17th, 2020 at 3:09 PM Said:

   Some of the racism we’ve been speaking about.

2. Charles in Texas, on September 17th, 2020 at 4:23 PM Said:

   I never would have thought this stuff would hit El Paso. Shawn King will be so proud that people are following his “suggestions.”

3. Phantom, on September 17th, 2020 at 4:29 PM Said:

   Pelosi did not criticize the destruction of other statues.

   Maybe she can pretend to disapprove of this cultural atrocity.

   Democracy is messy, you know.

4. Charles in Texas, on September 17th, 2020 at 5:49 PM Said:

   Patrick, can you check your e-mail please?

5. Patrick Van Roy, on September 17th, 2020 at 6:03 PM Said:

   certainly…… it will take a bit, but no prob.

6. Noel, on September 17th, 2020 at 6:20 PM Said:

   //Maybe she can pretend to disapprove of this cultural atrocity.//

   Phantom, I honestly think you are much more likely to welcome this (perhaps secretly) than she is.

7. Paul McMahon, on September 17th, 2020 at 6:25 PM Said:

   Some of the racism we’ve been speaking about

   OMG

   Even for someone who throws the racist epithet around with such freedom that’s some stretch.

8. Phantom, on September 17th, 2020 at 6:29 PM Said:

   Noel

   I’m genuinely surprised that you of all people would say that. I fully expect that of others.

   This is an ugly, sustained thing. There have been quite few other similar attacks on statues at Catholic churches in NYC and nationally, now in Texas, by religious and political bigots, as well as the many attacks on statues of military and political figures.

   There are two political parties here, and one has been generally silent on the matter, and the other has condemned the destruction in a loud voice.

   And we’re not supposed to ever think or talk about it?

   If it is OK to talk about it, what should be said?

   Is this a good response to what is happening?

   https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/07/09/christopher-columbus-statue-removed-baltimore-nancy-pelosi-responds-latest/

9. Phantom, on September 17th, 2020 at 6:37 PM Said:

   The vandalism was based on race.

   The words of the suspect confirm that.

   In a court affidavit obtained by ABC-7, police said Cantrell told them the “skin color of the statue was the wrong color.” Cantrell reportedly remarked that “Jesus was Jewish and therefore should be a darker skin color.”

   https://kvia.com/news/crime/2020/09/15/jesus-statue-decapitated-in-brazen-vandalism-attack-at-el-pasos-st-patricks-cathedral/

10. Pete Moore, on September 17th, 2020 at 6:46 PM Said:

    Left-liberalism is truly a mental illness. We’ve allowed it to radicalise the simple-minded for too long.

11. Phantom, on September 17th, 2020 at 6:48 PM Said:

    It’s amazing.

    Now the usuals will say that it is a one off and that it’s not based on hatred and bigotry and that it is racist to talk about it. Because it’s a ” wedge issue ” or whatever.

12. Paul McMahon, on September 17th, 2020 at 6:52 PM Said:

    The vandalism was based on race

    As I said, that’s some stretch. Probably a ‘hate crime’ too.

    It is racist to talk about it. Because it’s a ” wedge issue ” or whatever.

    Stop making things up. Your the one who loves the casual ‘rascist’ allegations.

13. Phantom, on September 17th, 2020 at 6:57 PM Said:

    “Jesus was Jewish and therefore should be a darker skin color.”

    Note

    should be a darker skin color

14. Paul McMahon, on September 17th, 2020 at 7:06 PM Said:

    Here’s a clue, Phantom. A statue, whose image has been manipulated for a European population, doesn’t have ‘skin’.

15. Pete Moore, on September 17th, 2020 at 7:14 PM Said:

    Now the usuals will say that it is a one off and that it’s not based on hatred and bigotry and that it is racist to talk about it.

    The same people who will go volcanic is someone burns a Koran. It’s as if they have an agenda.

16. Paul McMahon, on September 17th, 2020 at 7:16 PM Said:

    It’s as if they have an agenda

    Delicious irony.

17. Phantom, on September 17th, 2020 at 7:16 PM Said:

    whose image has been manipulated for a European population

    Keep talking.

    I beg of you.

18. Phantom, on September 17th, 2020 at 7:18 PM Said:

    From the distant past, from before JFK took office, the great Marty Robbins sings of El Paso

    Rosa’s cantina was a real place, and remains a functioning restaurant.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zBzZJd-nfw

19. Paul McMahon, on September 17th, 2020 at 7:22 PM Said:

    Keep talking.

    I beg of you

    Why not just say what’s on your mind instead of some vague, opaque guff?

20. Patrick Van Roy, on September 17th, 2020 at 7:31 PM Said:

    He’s saying he wants you to elaborate on your faery tale about the pic being manipulated for the weenies

21. Paul McMahon, on September 17th, 2020 at 7:37 PM Said:

    I think he can talk for himself?

22. Phantom, on September 17th, 2020 at 7:41 PM Said:

    Beer summit in El Paso!

23. Dave Alton, on September 17th, 2020 at 9:18 PM Said:

    Jesus looks like Robert Powell. Every body knows that.

24. Phantom, on September 17th, 2020 at 9:27 PM Said:

    This hatred fueled vandalism is not new at all

    Could link to a number of local incidents quickly from memory

    https://www.pix11.com/2018/12/03/statues-destroyed-at-brooklyn-church-police-investigating-as-hate-crime

25. Mahons, on September 18th, 2020 at 5:33 PM Said:

    There have been attacks on church statues and churches for as long as I can recall, and from across the political and sanity spectrum.