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08-18-2017, 12:17 PM | #16 |
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I don't feel very strongly about statues because I figure you don't have to look at one if you don't want to. You do have to go to the school and use the roads.
Regarding your one sentence in the post above. I understand where you are coming from. Jefferson and Washington were slave owners from the South. For me, the difference with them is that they never took up arms against the United States. |
08-18-2017, 12:22 PM | #17 |
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What if your tax dollar is used to maintain the statue?
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08-18-2017, 12:39 PM | #18 |
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I still don't care if my tax dollar is being spent. Statues don't cost much to maintain. But I wouldn't lift a finger to protect a statue of Lee.
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08-18-2017, 01:48 PM | #19 |
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"Communists?"
Oh, I'm sorry, 'communist' has too much baggage attached. 'Marxists' is what *'they' prefer to be called. *Black Lives Matter, Antifa, etc., the folks who *ahem* 'opposed' the race-haters in Charlotte(sville) |
08-18-2017, 02:01 PM | #20 |
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"Anyone standing up to a Nazi has to be a Communist, I guess."
As the race-haters weren't gonna do anything of consequence ('cept speak freely), only three groups of folks were gonna show up to counter 'em: Marxists (tryin' to be 'correct' in my descriptors) who don't give two shits about the statue, folks with way too much time on their hands and too little life to fill that time, and the lethally thin-skinned. You know as well as me who showed up (this time). |
08-18-2017, 02:07 PM | #21 |
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"wouldn't lift a finger to protect a statue of Lee"
You aren't obligated to. What you are obligated to do is leave it alone. And what the mayors and city councils of relevant communities ought to be obligated to do is put the question to folks who live in those communities. If, for example, the question had been put to the people of New Orleans or Orleans Parish, those four statues removed by decree probably would be standing today. |
08-18-2017, 02:12 PM | #22 |
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Yes, take them all down and replace them with statues of naked women.
That's news to me, I hadn't heard any of them describe themselves as Marxist. They prefer to be called, or what you prefer to call them?
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08-18-2017, 03:48 PM | #23 | |
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They are not equivalent.
The left/liberals are often accused of engaging in moral equivalency when they try to understand the root of something like islamic terrorism. An alt right terrorist just drove a vehicle into a crowd of protestors, killing a young woman. The protestors are arguing against racism, and against the glorification of historical figures who led a bitter and bloody fight against the rest of the country to defend their right to own human beings. The people attending the alt right rally were marching along shouting racist slogans ("The Jews will not replace us") giving nazi salutes and waving swastikas and confederate flags - expressing a moral and ideological loyalty to fascism. On one side a fairly disparate group, with multiple viewpoints, united by a desire to draw a line between the society America currently has and a former, though not that distant age, in which white people could own and brutalise black people. On the other side, a tooled up mini-militia waving nazi flags and shouting nazi slogans. Prepared to kill to protect their image of the South. I am sickened. Truly sickened. How many of our grandparents fought, suffered, or died, in the war against the nazi butchers? Not sickened by the fact that this could happen - it can happen, it does happen - here and in Europe, and in the US - these marches and rallies spring up and there is violence. A right wing nationalist murdered an MP not so long ago and so far from where I live. I am sickened to hear the president of the USA struggle to condemn them, and then cast equal blame onto the other side.
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08-18-2017, 04:09 PM | #24 |
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Yup my dad went to Korea to fight the Commu-- ah shit.
Well my great great great grandad fought on the Union side. Fuck Lee! |
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One other point:
We talk about 'statues' as part of our 'history' - But the atrocity of slave ownership is so recent that the last generation of slaves are close enough to us to have been recorded speaking. These former slaves were recorded in the 1930s - when my father was a small child, and my grandma a vibrant woman in her 20s.
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Yes. But that is not what was facing off against the alt right rally. The protest march was a disparate collection of variously left wing people. And some who probably wouldn't even consider themselves particularly left-wing - just anti-fascism. The alt right rally was a large congregation of (mainly) men from white supremacist and neo nazi groups, with many chanting nazi slogans - chants about the danger of Jews. This was not communists versus nazis.
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Hahahaha. That really made me laugh. Like, a full on snort that startled the dog.
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Oh hell, that entire page is hysterical.
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That is teh funneh.
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