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The Ampex Sign Is Coming Down (fastcompany.com)
harrymcc writes: If you ever watched anything on videotape, you have Silicon Valley pioneer Ampex -- which invented the technology -- to thank. And for years, the company's vintage sign has stood alongside Highway 101 as a tribute to its historical significance. But Stanford University, which owns the land the sign sits on, is in the process of dismantling it -- an act which Redwood City could have prevented but didn't. I wrote about this dismaying example of cultural shortsightedness at Fast Company.
Those traitors, who fought to preserve slavery, deserve a different kind of monument.
Take down the confederate statues. Grind them to powder. Mix them into porcelain.
And make confederate traitor monument toilets of them, to be placed in public rest areas throughout the country, for Americans to properly celebrate their legacy by shitting on them.
This sign marked human progress. Those statues mark the worst of humanity.