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Daily Wire host Matt Walsh on the poem on the statue of liberty, which he and at least one other right wing radio host are now declaiming.
Fair enough motherfucker, but et tu "under god", amirite? Not in the constitution, added later, some poet wrote it, you know? In no way represents any kind of core American value.
What's good for one is good for the other.
![[ quoting Daily Wire host Matt Walsh talking about the Statue of Liberty ]
But can we just say this about the poem? First of all, it wasn't even initially part of the Statue of Liberty. The statue was built in the 1870s and 1880s. The poem was added to the base of the statue in the early 1900s, like 1903, I think. And the poem is just a poem that somebody wrote. It's not a founding document. It's not the Constitution. It's not the Declaration of Independence. Some poet wrote it in, you know, in the late 19th century, and it was then put on a plaque and added to the pedestal of the statue. The poem in no way represents any kind of core American value. It is the work of one woman named Emma Lazarus. And so the the poem speaks to the core values of Emma Lazarus, not of the United States of America.](https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/186/114/724/895/026/original/d97275ee58326d17.png "[ quoting Daily Wire host Matt Walsh talking about the Statue of Liberty ]
But can we just say this about the poem? First of all, it wasn't even initially part of the Statue of Liberty. The statue was built in the 1870s and 1880s. The poem was added to the base of the statue in the early 1900s, like 1903, I think. And the poem is just a poem that somebody wrote. It's not a founding document. It's not the Constitution. It's not the Declaration of Independence. Some poet wrote it in, you know, in the late 19th century, and it was then put on a plaque and added to the pedestal of the statue. The poem in no way represents any kind of core American value. It is the work of one woman named Emma Lazarus. And so the the poem speaks to the core values of Emma Lazarus, not of the United States of America.")
@PaulDavisTheFirst Core values of our founding fathers and the documents they produced:
1. Slavery
2. Only land owning white men have rights
3. Mass murdering and evictions of Native Americans
If "American values" cannot evolve past that barbarism to something beautiful like Lazarus' poem, America has no values.