# Changing names, removing statues while avoiding 1984-ism

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 23, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-names-removing-statues-while-avoiding-1984-ism/912444 "2020-06-23T16:51:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changing-names-removing-statues-while-avoiding-1984-ism/912444/176 "2020-07-01T18:20:56Z")

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I’m not a moderate. 😉

And I have nothing but respect for MLK and his followers. I have a problem with rabid so-called ‘peaceful’ ‘protestors’ who are nothing more in many cases than opportunistic looters, arsonists, and thugs. In a functioning democracy there is no place for wholesale destruction of property, assault and murder, and political intimidation.

Why are you more offended by the criticism of mob rule than mob rule itself?

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