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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Lady Liberty
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:15:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mar 19, 2025 at 8:06:47 AM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On 3/18/2025 7:05 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>  On 2025-03-18 5:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>  Well, the French are demanding we give them back the Statue of Liberty 
>>>  because
>>>  we have borders and enforce them now, which means we no longer value 
>>>  liberty.
>>>  Or something. So the week is starting off great.
>>> 
>>>  I don’t want to give the Statue of Liberty to France, but I do think 
>>>  we should
>>>  remove that dumb poem about the ‘huddled masses’ that leftists love to 
>>>  cite
>>>  when arguing that America, alone among nations, should have no 
>>>  borders, and
>>>  send that over to the Caliphate of France. They can attach it to the 
>>>  Eiffel
>>>  Tower or something. America is not an international homeless shelter.
>>> 
>>> 
>>  Even Emma Lazarus' Wikipedia article describes her as an "activist", a 
>>  term surely unknown in her own time, but presumably indicating their 
>>  approval of her politics, even though she was a Jew from a wealthy New 
>>  York family. This would make the Wikipedia editors enthusiastic about a 
>>  capitalist and a Jew, which is a bit unusual these days....
>>  
>>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Lazarus
>>  
>>  As for the statue itself, it would be hilarious to send the French a 
>>  slightly altered Statue of Liberty, one with Liberty holding a hand up 
>>  instead of a torch, with the middle finger of that hand pointed skyward. 
>>  Of course the cost of doing that would be very substantial so I propose 
>>  sending them a photo of the Statue of Liberty, photoshopped in the 
>>  manner I suggested.
> 
> Umm... I think it was the poem itself, rather than the poet's 
> background, that captured our imagination and aspiration, even if on 
> some level we understood that the real world always has a say.  Kind of 
> a shame to see it ridiculed.

I think it's more of a shame to have seen it turned into official public
policy by the last administration. The nation is not run by sonnet.