Comments Thread For: Mike Tyson Honored With 10-Foot-Tall Statue In Resorts World Las Vegas

[1Eriugenus]

'Since you seem to be so magnanimous in your condemnation of our founders do you still champion your human rights to present day slavery? Do you still volunteer your time to squash slavery in present day China? Pakistan? India? Congo?'

Now that is an interesting idea. Nobody should criticise anyone from the past unless they are willing to volunteer to put that wrong right in the present day! I really think you've got something there.

I honestly don't think I can do anything to resurrect anyone Hitler killed. It follows, by your logic, that I shouldn't condemn him.

I suppose I could, with enough logistical support, gather all the Irish travellers in the UK & return them to Connaught, thus putting right a terrible thing Cromwell did. However, I'm not convinced that they'll go even if I put all the transport in place & a lot of them can box so if they don't WANT to go its going to get difficult & potentially violent.

I can't, obviously, restore the writings, engravings & manuscripts destroyed by Attila the Hun but I would be very happy to trace them & then go to one of those 3-D printing guys. Alternatively, & perhaps preferably, I could just not throw shade on Attila. I mean, man did his best.

[Chaos]

Mike Tyson had a fantastic career and is the biggest fighter of his generation. That said, there is no getting around he is a convicted sex offender. I don't think statues should be put up to honour rapists.

Everyone and their dog, and that includes the prosecutor, knows he's innocent.

[Chaos]

...now WAIT A MINUTE!!

We'll tear down statues of founders because they traded ****** at a time when others were trading ******...

We'll revoke honorary mentions and credentials because lawyers did their job...

But when it's a CONVICTED rapist, who admitted doing drugs, who admitted trying to kill people, who was at one point throwing more ****phobic slurs than any man short of prime Eddie Murphy...

He gets a statue and nobody complains.

...Ok

No serious person believes he was guilty, and non one cares that he did some blow or used foul language when it was common.

[MANNY67]

Mike Tyson had a fantastic career and is the biggest fighter of his generation. That said, there is no getting around he is a convicted sex offender. I don't think statues should be put up to honour rapists.

Everyone deserves a second chance in life (forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us)

[Combat Talk Radio]

No serious person believes he was guilty, and non one cares that he did some blow or used foul language when it was common.

Yet NSB wants to cancel Wilder for wanting "a body on the record".

Ok