Correction for the anonymous ask someone sent to @phaeton-flier:
This appears to be a mangling or misremembering of a different statement, or of a statement by a different author.
During the 2020 riots, rioters (or demonstrators, or protestors, whatever you want to call them), of multiple racial backgrounds, attacked STATUES on the basis of the race of the person the STATUES depicted.
This was fairly well-established, as we have photos of red paint thrown on statues of abolitionists and other such historical figures.
Statues are not people.
This was part of an overall vibes-based discourse regarding the morality of the riots.
There are several other statements this might be a mangling of, but it gets to part of why, unlike the New York Times, I did not want a "reckoning" - even a fairly cautious and level-headed statement about something so controversial can get wrecked by being misremembered.
Worse, because I tend to be fairly careful about my statements, "mitigatedchaos, a trustworthy source, said [version of statement with the most important noun deleted]," might make the problem worse than if it were attributed to a troll.
