RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 14, 2017 at 10:16 am
(August 14, 2017 at 10:01 am)Mr.wizard Wrote: Stop mis-representing my position it's annoying and dishonest. I never said anything about segregating water fountains, I clearly pointed out that if the statue doesn't violate any laws or rights then they should be able to display it. The statue is legal, I'm not sure why the choice to display it is being compared to human rights violations. The town has a right to display it or take it down and that is the right I'm defending.
Yep and slavery was also at one time deemed constitutional.
But ok, if you want to claim it is legal, fine, still a huge difference between legal and moral. Just because you can staple your nuts to the wall doesn't mean you should.
It still remains that any of the war figures in monument who defended the south were defending cruelty to other humans and ownership of other humans. What they represented did for far too long treat other humans WITH force of law as sub human. There is no polite way to put it. At one time most of our population including the courts saw it as perfectly legal to deny women the right to vote.
There is a reason we have separation of powers, and even with voters, we have also had a history of "the right to petition the government for a redress of grievance". That means just because even if a majority wants something, does not mean they always get it. It is why even despite the GOP fight to keep gay marriage illegal it became legal.
The argument over local vs federal is not a good argument. If it were, slavery would still exist and segregation would still exist. Those statues regardless still represent a horrible past regardless of "why shouldn't they be allowed."
All I am seeing in your argument is mob rule by virtue of popularity. That is now how our republic works and no, the majority should not get everything it wants all the time. it is why we have a Constitution.
I doubt you would make the same argument if it were a Nazi flag a majority of a town wanted on public property.
