Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[bennyboy]

I'm 55. The damn things should have been taken down many decades ago.

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I live in Columbia, SC. If you don't think removing an in-your-face symbol of oppression from the public square has enough impact on the people it's intended to intimidate to justify removing it, all I have to say is that my impression from close up is very, very different. No victim of horrendous oppression should have to waste the mental bandwidth it takes to deal with that kind of shit.

Benny apparently denies symbolisms

Dude, I literally just mentioned dream catchers, and pointed out that almost all of the American heroes, including Custer, Jackson, Columbus, and even Lincoln are symbols of abuse and oppression of the native population.

I mean look, there are plenty of good reasons you might put forth for removing those statues.  But I'd say if the reason is cultural sensitivity, there's a huge double standard here-- one culture seems to matter, another continues to be disregarded and blatantly so.

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Well, perhaps not the hood wearing ones...but you seem to support the sentiments of the ones in ties who seem normal.  Mission accomplished, from their POV.

Not really, because if it were a statue of Martin Luther King, or even Jesus, I'd hold the same position. Your campaign of guilt by association is noted and I reject it completely. If white supremacists want those statues to remain because they are an act of ongoing insult and aggression, then they are dicks. That they and I both think it's better to keep statues of confederate leaders is not even nearly a good enough reason to draw an association, and you're a dick for thinking it is.

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Nobody is saying that you* can't have statues of murderers, rapists, slavers, terrorists, whatever else you want, in a park. You just don't get to use tax payer money to keep that park running. 


*Generic "you".

And "wingnuts" aren't usually lynching people.

Did the wingnuts in Charlottesville lynch someone, or do they in fact usually lynch people these days?  If so, the guilty parties should be arrested and tried for murder.