Protesters now demand removal of Central Park statue honoring 'father of modern gynecology'

>Protesters gathered in New York's Central Park on Saturday to demand the removal of a statue of a 19th century doctor who conducted experiments on African American women slaves. A bronze likeness of Dr. James Marion Sims stands at the entrance of Central Park at Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street in Manhattan. The statue, which was originally dedicated in 1894, stands to honor the man considered to be 'the father of modern gynecology.' According to the New York City Parks Department, Sims, who was born in South Carolina in 1813, owned slaves.

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Just fucking rip down all statues everywhere.

They are STATUES, so of course they are evil. Enough, just get rid of them once and for all so Blacks and transexuals can feel safe again.

It's just the right thing to do.

The faster America gets rid of its white heritage and accepts itself as a black country, the easier it will be for the world.

You should also rename America because it is the name of a slave trader and America was named after him

America was named after Ereik the Redbeard, who did nothing wrong.

Our country is a nigger shithole.

Rich persons of common sense need to start commissioning thousands of new statues. Statues of every historical figure they can think of, from American presidents to Greek philosophers, Roman Emperors, generals of all kinds, etc.

For too long have we suffered under the oppression of old ass statues. Enough is enough...

Pretty much this.

An easy end-run around all this nonsense would be for some group (Sons/Daughters of Confederate Veterans, maybe) to commission new Confederate statues, buy prominent public places, and put them there. As they'd be on private property, no city councilman, mayor or Democrat can do anything about it.

Good. Let them.

Accelerationism is the only chance we have of waking people up en masse. Things need to become as bad as possible. Society needs to collapse.

This. If we remove all the statues, of everyone and everything, then they won't be able to bitch about statues anymore. In fact, let's get a Constitutional Convention going and pass an amendment that bans statues from being erected within this country.

Ban assault statues!

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Kek

someone should go knock this one down

In Montgomery between 1845 and 1849, Sims experimented by surgery on 12 enslaved women with fistulas, brought to him by their masters; Sims took responsibility for their care on the condition that the masters provide clothing and pay taxes.[7] He named three enslaved women in his records: Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy. Each suffered from fistula, and all were subjected to his surgical experimentation.[2] From 1845 to 1849 he experimented on each them several times, operating on Anarcha 13 times before her fistula repair was declared a success.[6] She had both vesicovaginal and rectovaginal fistulas, which he struggled to repair.[5]

Although anesthesia had recently become available, Sims did not use any anesthetic during his procedures on Anarcha, Betsy, and Lucy.[2] According to Sims, it was not yet fully accepted into surgical practice and he was unaware of the possibility of the use of diethyl ether.[5][7] However, ether as an anesthetic was available as early as the beginning of 1842.[7] A common belief at the time was that black people did not feel as much pain as white people, and thus did not require anesthesia when undergoing surgery.[8] Nevertheless, in a memoir he stated that "Lucy's agony was extreme...she was much prostrated and I thought she was going to die".[9] After he operated on her in the presence of twelve doctors without anesthetics, she nearly died from septicemia following his experimental use of a sponge to wipe urine from the bladder during the procedure.[6] He did administer opium to the women after their surgery, which was accepted therapeutic practice of the day.[10]

After the extensive experiments and complications, Sims finally perfected his technique. He repaired the fistula successfully in Anarcha. His technique using silver-wire sutures led to successful repair of a fistula, and this was first reported in Sims' published surgical reports in 1852.[1] He was then able to repair the fistulas of several other enslaved women under his medical authority.[11] It was only after his success in early experiments on the enslaved women that Sims attempted the procedure on white women with fistulas; he used anesthesia for their surgeries.[8]

tear everything down liberals. Then they will eat their own.

Based leaf
I agree 110%

also to note, he killed two white women trying to cure their fistulas prior to moving to Alabama. hes not a monster these idiots are trying to make him out to be.

After they tear down the statues, they will begin rewriting history and demanding the removal of things like the 1st Amendment (because muh nazis)
Then they'll come for you. Actually you, yourself, your person. You will be thrown into a camp and be exterminated for real, no muh gas.
There is no appeasement.

that's just free medical care

FUCKING LEAF

>Liberals want to censor science and history

IMAGINE MY SHOCK!

Not just statues. Any kind of representational art. Maybe we can make an exception for representations of POCs.

Sounds like Sims was trying to help the women in the midst of medical, anaesthetic, and antibiotic limitations

Full iconoclasm.

It's time to shut down the US Department of Health and all the services this hateful racist organization provides. They ran the Tuskegee syphilis experiment! Their hatred has no place in today's America. I'm launching this campaign and hope all Americans stand against racism and against the disgraceful history of US healthcare services. KILL THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH!

>In addition to these racist beliefs, Sims thought trismus nascentium arose from skull bone movement during protracted births. To test this, Sims used a shoemaker's awl to pry the skull bones of enslaved women's babies into alignment; these experiments had a 100% fatality rate, and Sims often kept the corpses for autopsies and further research on the condition.
whad le fugggg

Yet these statues are okay to keep around in America now...

Fuck it, tear down all statues.