Destroying History

[Okeefenokee]

But would people really just forget the Civil War if these statues do come down?

Would they forget that a bunch of yankee liberal faggots came to their homes and tore down their monuments is the question you should be asking yourself.

The answer is no, and when it comes back on you, good luck finding anyone who gives a shit what happens to you. You dumb as fuck libtards have the forethought of a goldfish.

[Penner]

Except that a lot of these statues are being removed by the will of local governments and/or groups

[C-Mag]

Except that a lot of these statues are being removed by the will of local governments and/or groups

Politicians are pussies. These violent radicals know that, they are intimidating them into these actions. The message is, see what we just did, you represent history the way we want or we'll come to your town and torch it too.

Complete intolerance backed up with the threat of force of the masses of unwashed and uneducated.

[ssu]

Except that a lot of these statues are being removed by the will of local governments and/or groups

Perfect Storm.

First thing of course is that it's over 100 years or more from when the vast majority of the statues were built, nowdays people don't have connection to the things as those who erected them, some of whom were of the Civil War-generation and many their children, basically. This naturally means something else for people now. And that else is of course Jim Crow, segregation and all Civil Rights movement. (With this viewpoint one conveniently forget that also the North had racial segregation in the 19th Century.)

Then, not only have you the attacks of white supremacists/neonazis Dylan Roof & James Fields Jr. that focus national media in such way that the left can use the moment, but you also have the worst possible speaker defending Civil War statues and that's Donald Trump. There would be many southern politicians like Sessions (for starters) that could easily condemn bigotry and nazism yet respect the Southern Heritage.

But nope, you have Trump.

Hence in the end, Lee is made to be hero for nazis.

Great.

[TheReal_ND]

What happened to innocent until proven guilty? James Fields hasn't even been tried yet. You poison the well of your own supposed ideology you uphold in the name of slandering people you disagree with. You're no better than the Nazis.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Except that a lot of these statues are being removed by the will of local governments and/or groups

The only way to know that would be by a referendum. It's being done by scared politicians that don't like noise.

[C-Mag]

Except that a lot of these statues are being removed by the will of local governments and/or groups

Perfect Storm.

First thing of course is that it's over 100 years or more from when the vast majority of the statues were built, nowdays people don't have connection to the things as those who erected them, some of whom were of the Civil War-generation and many their children, basically. This naturally means something else for people now. And that else is of course Jim Crow, segregation and all Civil Rights movement. (With this viewpoint one conveniently forget that also the North had racial segregation in the 19th Century.)

Nope, most of these statues were erected during the Democrat Racist backlash under Woodrow Wilson when you saw the once defeated KKK rise again. This should not be a sidenote in history because it is key. Why, 50 years after the defeat of the Confederacy and the end of slavery did the KKK become popular again and why were these statues erected during that time period? No one is asking that question.

The answer is that racists in America had an ally in the Whitehouse that supported Jim Crow, Segregation, etc. That man was Woodrow Wilson who set us back at least 50 years in Civil Rights and racial relations. Yet, these dolts who aren't educated enough to get past their political indoctrination to understand this. Black LIves Matter went after Wilson in Princeton, that was quickly hushed up by the media. Here's a good article on Wilson who tossed Civil Rights leaders out of the Whitehouse.


https://gettysburgcompiler.org/2015/12/ ... s-a-title/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Monroe_Trotter

Here's another relevant question. Where were these outraged people 9 months ago? or 18 months ago? Why didn't POTUS Obama and these folks open a civil discussion on these issues when he was in office?

[TheReal_ND]

You live in Montana. I would hardly consult you for the "racist backlash" facts and trends that got your arch nemesis into the WH. You simply don't understand what the plight is out there.

[Ex-California]

[Fife]

Andy and Ronnie Howard are good Democrats; can we at least save them until Purge 2?