RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 14, 2017 at 9:09 am
(August 14, 2017 at 8:58 am)Brian37 Wrote:(August 14, 2017 at 8:40 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: Why shouldn't the town have a say, it doesn't violate any constitutional rights and if the people there want the statue then they should be able to keep it, as well as if they don't want it then they they should be able to remove it. Slavery is bad no doubt about it, but that's not the issue here, the issue is should towns not be able to display statues of people who fought for the confederacy.
^^^^^ Is like saying, "Why cant Islamic countries throw gays off rooftops and deny women equal rights?"
This is about the pure fact that government property is the property of everyone, not one group, not one political party and should not be used to promote or glorify cruelty to other humans. Those who conducted the war in the south were not heros, they were the enemy.
You would not say that say, if Iran had a civil war, and out of the ashes a western democracy rose but some still kept the statues of those who clung to the past.
If you defend the town/city in that fashion then you have no value for the bloodshed and struggle of those who supported the likes of MLK and what he did and died for to end segregation. To leave up statues of those who apposed the progress he died for is vile.
The only context those statues should be kept around like I said, is in a museum of what not to do to your fellow human being.
You are not defending free speech by arguing like this. You are defending a vile history that nobody should want to glorify.
No Brian, it's not like saying "Why cant Islamic countries throw gays off rooftops and deny women equal rights?" . It's a question of a statue in a town and whether or not a town should be able to display it. I maintain if the statue is what the people of the town want and it doesn't violate any ones rights or laws then they should be able to have it.
