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Gotcha’. But from what I saw, a lot of those people who were so offended by statues were very young and hip. Leads me to believe they probably listen to a lot of pop/rap music and probably hear the n-word countless times and think nothing of it. they probably didn’t even know those statues existed until they became a big deal...but I’ll bet they refuse to by an album that has been sanitized of **** racial language...meaning they prefer the full-language version.
If true, what a POS
Not trying to change your opinion but I’d encourage you step out of your culture to gain a better appreciation of how hurtful the word is from those who are offended, especially coming from someone who looks different. Talking about it with folks of same race and belief is pointless imo. I’m also not trying to debate what’s a greater offense...let’s just leave it as it’s all bad.
I guess the whole Confederate idolatry thing just never was MY thing.
My roots are probably deeper than most southerners, We still have tin type photos and other artifacts from rebel ancestors.
to me they were simply on the wrong side of history, I've never felt compelled to defend their culture or ideals.
Lol some of my potential witnesses have already left the planet. They are now very long distance calls!!
Are they in a corn field or a building foundation ?
I can keep a secret.
I might have to visit sister Renee and set up a seance to find them.
The World according to WCDawg, it’s pretty amazing how much you think you’re the authority in things.
The Native American genocide was probably worse than slavery. Why not tear down symbols of America too?
The confederacy is a part of our history. Hiding it is not gonna help.
Thank you, I know you couldn't have lived in most towns in Georgia in the 60s, 70s or 80s without hearing that word used.
The NAZIs are part of German history, do we have statues to honor slavery ?
The Confederacy was traitorous to my country and my ideas of right and wrong, I have no interest in romanticizing it.
The Nazi movement over here was no ever anything more than a few fringe freaks. I have no idea why you would want to honor a movement in another country.
You clearly have no understanding of history if you think the traitorous issue is somehow cut and dry. At the time it was a controversy as to whether or not states should be able to secede. Some people thought they should be able to secede, others thought they shouldn’t be able to. And it wasn’t just southerners who thought they should be able to. The North never would have won the Civil War if it would have required nearly the percentage of resources that was required of the South. The North didn’t consider the dispute nearly as important as the South did.
You’re basically using the knowledge that is taught to fifth graders as they are being indoctrinated into our system in school. And using that as the factual basis to form a very strong, bigoted opinoin on.
I've been over this many times.
I have no use for The Confederacy's legacy other than to say it was a vile failure.
There's no convoluted case you can make that I haven't seen many times.
You pretty much just proved my point about bigoted.
You really have no idea how you just parrot ignorant myths that have been passed down to southerners since Reconstruction, it's not knowledge, it's perverse and backward ideology.
I'll leave it at that, you're probably incapable of more.
The guy who got The Civil War most right to me was Ken Burns. A guy lauded by you liberals and is the flagship director of you guy’s most vaunted media outlet, PBS. If you want to actually know anything about the history of the war, you should watch his documentary series on it. It’s very easy to watch. It was a popular hit back when it was first released back in the late 80’s/early 90’s (can’t remember exactly).
Nothing I’ve said above goes anything outside of what he said about the war. And I really just scratch at the surface.
''you liberals'' the fact you equate my not embracing an institution that had a foundation build on human ownership and was traitorous to MY country as being liberal pretty much says it all.
The Civil War was not "treasonous" because at the time the "States" were actually independent countries with their own individual governments united under a federal government for the common defense...a lot like the modern EU. The southern states assumed they had the right to leave (and a lot of northerners agreed). They weren't trying to overthrow and replace the federal government, they just wanted to leave and do their own thing. Lincoln was under tremendous pressure by northern politicians to just let them go, but thankfully he saw it another way. It's also partly why Lincoln make sure that confederate soldiers received full U.S. status after the war. It's also why there are so many Confederate statues in the south...they are technically heroes of an American war, not a rebellious uprising.
You’re so confused at trying to come up with a sensible perspective at this point that you’re making things up out of thin air. No where did I claim you are a liberal because you are against slavery or because you have taken a short sighted opinoin on a historical event a hundred and fifty years ago. I called you a liberal because you’ve made it very clear on the board in the past that you are a liberal.
And I didn’t call you a liberal as an insult. I was trying to point out I was giving you a resource ensconced in your political philosophies that you could actually learn something from.
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You're a dead end thinker.