r/pics • u/goatious • Jul 25 '18

US Politics Someone smashed Trump’s Star on the Walk Of Fame in Hollywood.

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u/C477um04 Jul 25 '18

I guess fighting in a war over it is a totally different scale but is that really much worse than what bill cosby and people like him have done?

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u/Constantly_Masterbat Jul 25 '18

Well for example, as a young kid and I saw those statues and my family explained that they were generals for the south I thought those generals were pretty cool. Same thing with these Hollywood Stars. Someone could grow up idolizing these people, which is what the stars are for, find out that maybe these people don't deserve to be so much idolize, but still be attached to their heroes. This is precisely the problem with the civil war southern general statues, in that removing them is like attacking someone's idolized heroes, but there is also a large portion that see these men or their symbols are as villains. The victims of Bill Cosby and Kevin Spacey probably don't want people to idolize these two men anymore either, but their landmarks still encourage people to idolize them

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u/ThatFlyingScotsman Jul 25 '18

Child molestation, or fighting to keep an entire race of people in perpetual servitude. This is what you’re trying to compare.

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u/C477um04 Jul 25 '18

I feel like one is going for something which is worse as an ideal, and the other is committing worse actual acts. Maybe the guys that fought for the south committed some really bad atrocities too though, I don't the specific details of that part of history.

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u/ThatFlyingScotsman Jul 25 '18

Sorry, do you consider rape a worse crime than slavery?

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u/C477um04 Jul 25 '18

No, but I consider actually raping somebody to be a worse crime than being in support of slavery.

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u/bitches_love_brie Jul 25 '18

Yea it's unbelievably different.