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"The right" was marching

NCD — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 01:31:03 +0000

"The right" was marching through the streets with semiautomatic weapons, torches, swastikas, shields, helmets, confederate flags, Trump gear while chanting "blood and soil" from the Hitler era and "Jews will not replace us". Then one executed a terror attack with a car.

"Inanimate objects" can serve as rallying points, and incite racism and violence, which is why Germany banned swastikas, deaths head symbols and SS uniforms and runes and Nazi flags.

If moving the statues means nothing to you and your friends, good, because a lot of people think otherwise and want them gone.

Not even any of my white

Invisible Man — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 00:22:46 +0000

In reply to Yes, Confederate Statues Are Racist Symbols

Not even any of my white friends have the sense to figure out that tearing these statues down means nothing; racism is in people not inanimate objects. Do I agree with leaving statues up? Not necessarily. But I haven't paid much attention to them over the years.

The first true step is choosing the correct politicians and other public servants. That way we can push out racism by way of indirect policies, laws, and law enforcement officers who won't put up with all that nonsense. Teaching children is another enormous way to rid the minds of tainted thoughts. That's how things progress. Not by violent leftist parties who want people to think exactly like them, nor allow people on the right to even speak in public because they disagree with their policy beliefs. See how dangerous an evolving society can still be?

Peace.

Much of the backlash against

rmrd0000 — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 13:06:47 +0000

In reply to I read a 19th century guy who

Much of the backlash against the Confederacy nostalgia has been that proponents argued that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. This flies in the face of the rationale for separation written by leaders of the Confederacy. Confederate flags wound up on many state lands as a direct response to the Civil Rights movement. Murdered like Dylan Roof have no problem using Confederate paraphernalia as symbols to support their racist hatred. The story told about the Confederacy became a pack of lies.

I read a 19th century guy who

Aaron Carine — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 12:29:18 +0000

In reply to Yes, Confederate Statues Are Racist Symbols

I read a 19th century guy who said we can admire those who fought on the wrong side on the grounds that "he was mistaken, but he was great". That doesn't seem to be the prevailing view today. Many say that even those who were supposedly on the right side--Washington, Jefferson, Madison--should be denied honor or commemoration because of their slave-holding. I don't know.

Danny, you have to read NOLA

rmrd0000 — Tue, 23 May 2017 20:23:03 +0000

In reply to Yes, Confederate Statues Are Racist Symbols

Danny, you have to read NOLA Mayor Mitch Landrieu's powerful speech about the meaning of the statues. The statues celebrate a fictionalized history of the South ignoring the savagery that those statues represent. The speech is a masterpiece.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mitch-landrieu-speech-confederate-mo...

Ah, you beat me to it - got

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 23 May 2017 20:19:00 +0000

In reply to Danny, you have to read NOLA

Ah, you beat me to it - got distracted posting something else.... ;-) Work of art. In the Dark Days of The Shire, very refreshing to see someone can still orate.

BTW - Clarence Thomas finally did something useful & joined liberals in knocking down North Carolina's bad attempt at gerrymandering? Well, the rapture is certainly near, and Hell's reporting sleet and foul weather. More from the LA Times.

Danny, call them "loser

NCD — Sat, 20 May 2017 23:34:19 +0000

In reply to Yes, Confederate Statues Are Racist Symbols

Danny, call them "loser statues", puts them and their supporters in proper perspective.

The most fun is when they

rmrd0000 — Tue, 16 May 2017 20:23:27 +0000

In reply to There are days when living

The most fun is when they explain "racism" to you.

There are days when living

Danny Cardwell — Tue, 16 May 2017 20:14:55 +0000

In reply to Saw a Tweet to the effect

There are days when living here is like a racist episode of The Twilight Zone. It's emotionally exhausting having to decipher racism for people who are convinced the daily aggressions people of color face are the result of a mass delusion.

Saw a Tweet to the effect

Michael Maiello — Tue, 16 May 2017 19:33:00 +0000

In reply to Yes, Confederate Statues Are Racist Symbols

Saw a Tweet to the effect that Berlin has no Nazi statues or monuments, but does have a Holocaust museum and thought back to a reporting trip I took to Germany back in 2001, where I was surrounded by a lot of other 20 somethings. They were, actually, fairly vocal about not wishing to be held responsible for the sins of their grandparents but, at the same time, claimed no pride or heritage in what had happened. In fact, their argument for their own clemency was rooted in their total rejection of what had come before.

You cannot have it both ways.

Which brings us to another point -- if people want to have pride in southern heritage, why not pick a more modern and inclusive south to have pride in? Why specifically choose an era marked by barbarity unless it suits you?