A 9-foot-tall statue depicting a bust of tech billionaire Elon Musk has been vandalized in South Texas.
A photograph showing two areas where it appears a top layer of material has been stripped from the statue, revealing a white or pale gray layer underneath. A tattered ribbon of the top layer material hangs raggedly from the chin of the Musk sculpture.
The vandalism of the Musk sculpture joins a pattern of vandalization of property and vehicles associated with Musk, whose appointment as a top Trump adviser and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has drawn ire nationwide.
The Rio Grande Valley hasn’t been spared from that trend.
In February, a mural of Musk located in downtown Brownsville was defaced by graffiti that read “Deny Defend Depose,” along with an anarchy symbol that was scrawled in black spray paint over one of Musk’s cheeks.
There’s a long history of people pulling down authoritarian monuments.
Not in the US. Yet.
Could’ve sworn the US had started pulling down those stupid confederate monuments. Doesn’t that count?
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we got a bunch of civil war monuments removed, we are on the way
Sanctioned removal of monuments is one thing. Angry people throwing chains over them and pulling down with trucks is another.
Plenty of protesters ripping these down. Not just “sanctioned” removals.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/7/21283003/protesters-tore-down-confederate-statue-virginia-monuments-alabama-new-orleans
https://apnews.com/article/af60888a6955a87d103828465cbc97df
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/20/us/north-carolina-confederate-monument/index.html
There was that Christopher Columbus statue in Baltimore that got the Boston tea party treatment.
The Columbus statue in Columbus Ohio routinely gets defaced
They threw tea in the statue?
Nah, they threw the statue into the harbor.