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Before the Liberals Find A Reason To Deface This Statue refers to a series of jokes on Twitter parodying a tweet by actor James Woods in which he captioned a picture of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial with "Before the #liberals find a reason to deface, destroy or degrade this one, I thought some of you might like to see it one more time…" In the parodies, Twitter users post pictures of various humorous statues with Woods' caption.

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On August 14th, 2017, actor James Woods tweeted a picture of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial, also known as the "Iwo Jima Memorial," with the caption "Before the #liberals find a reason to deface, destroy or degrade this one, I thought some of you might like to see it one more time…" (shown below).^[1] Woods' tweet came amidst debate in America following the 2017 Unite the Right Rally, which was started in protest of the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the general of the Confederate Army in the United States Civil War, about whether America should remove statues of other prominent figures in the Confederacy. The tweet gained over 13,000 retweets and 28,000 likes.

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Several hours after Woods' tweet, dozens of Twitter users began to parody it by posting pictures of humorous and less iconic statues using his caption. One of the first notable examples was posted by @leftisbestwing,^[2] who used an image of a statue of the Jolly Green Giant, gaining over 150 retweets and 950 likes (shown below, left). One of the most popular examples was tweeted by @spookperson,^[3] who used the caption with an image of an inflatable buttplug, gaining over 820 retweets and 3,700 likes (shown below, right).

Hundreds of jokes were posted on Twitter by the following day, leading to coverage from Twitter Moments^[4] and The Wrap.^[5]

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