You sound a million times more outraged and bitchier than the article does.

You are outraged and have absolutely no reason to be outraged. You are as silly and ridiculous as the statue Damon is lampooning.

Yeah, a black man making fun of a racist statue is artificial outrage on par with the Nazi snowflakes. We know you aren’t real.

For obvious reasons this has got to be the most fallacious and stupid argument I’ve ever heard. Because he didn’t know about it before, finding about it now means that he can’t disapprove of it? I mean, if my wife had been cheating on me for the past two years am I not allowed to be outraged if I just found out about…

Damon doesn’t seem extremely outraged though. His outrage seems to be at a pretty low level (which is commendable considering how awful that statue is) and this article is more taking a stab at being humorous about a racist as hell statue more than it is some kind of “Whaaa! My feelings are hurt! Tear that statue…

Particularly when something is written with such an over the top satiric style that it’s talking about taking a quote out on a date to eat chorizo, and the mind reader decides this is 100% aggrieved outrage of butthurtness with no humor involved.

I feel like you read a different article. His is overarching tone is “holy crap, look at this ridiculous shit I just found,” not “I am outraged and must be appeased by blood and destruction!”

I don’t get the impression this person thinks things through or worries about consistency of their ideas.

You’re complaining about fake outrage by writing multiple screeds that include everything but the Illuminati. See if Amazon sells some perspective or self-awareness.

This article does not sound all that outraged to me. I’m under the impression that Damon wanted us to appreciate the way that this statue has quietly aged from the kind of unexamined paternalism that was commonplace in Foster’s lifetime into a jaw-dropping piece of unintentional self-parody.

So you, someone who has never seen or driven by this statue at all and probably only know about it now thanks to this article, get to be upset about it, but someone who actually lives near it and sees it everyday isn’t allowed to be upset about it after also reading an article about it?

Don’t forget the historical bit about the Banjo. It’s now a total redneck instrument, but it’s African in origin.

Sure. As soon a second I’m done listening to Taylor....Dayne.

It’s interesting that you can see into someone’s head and know whether they’re actually upset about something or not.

I don’t know when this freckle on my elbow became kind of flaky and weird, but now that I do know, I probably should get it looked at. Just because I didn’t notice it earlier doesn’t mean it still isn’t a problem to be dealt with.

I almost think it should stay up. Why? Because, as a white person, I can tell you that this induces skin-crawling embarrassment for ye average white person. Nobody can try to drape it in lost-cause romanticism or give it any historic value beyond showing racism. The false benevolence, the hideous condescension, the…

The head must bow and the back will have to bend,

Uh, not before The Rolling Stones one.

So when’s the Miley Cyrus statue in Brooklyn goin up?

He also composed the KY state song. Please find and read the lyrics. You will be amazed. They updated the song in 1986 and removed the second and third verses, just like the Star Spangled Banner, because they contain the most racist-ey parts.