RE: Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues
September 15, 2017 at 8:18 am
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2017 at 8:34 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Who cares if it angers people? It's a clear breach of the spirit of our laws designed explicitly to circumvent those laws by the letter in service of nothing more or less than blatant and plain racism.
There's a reason that we took down all the white supremacist yard art our country had seen fit to ensconce publicly. Because it suggests that the fucking government has taken the side of white supremacy...which, ofc, at the time that those statues were erected and by the people who put them up...it had. That these statues escaped both the physical purge and the conceptual realization that they were just elaborate whites only signs, doesn;t suggest anything good about whether or not our government..or our people, are -still- on the side of white supremacy.
Apparently, supporting their positions with their talking points is something that can happen by accident, and it certainly doesn't happen because they try very hard to whitewash an issue, just like they tried to whitewash "history" with those statues..or by any dedicated effort of normalization by racists. It's not racist unless somebodies wearing a hood, anyway.
There's a reason that we took down all the white supremacist yard art our country had seen fit to ensconce publicly. Because it suggests that the fucking government has taken the side of white supremacy...which, ofc, at the time that those statues were erected and by the people who put them up...it had. That these statues escaped both the physical purge and the conceptual realization that they were just elaborate whites only signs, doesn;t suggest anything good about whether or not our government..or our people, are -still- on the side of white supremacy.
Apparently, supporting their positions with their talking points is something that can happen by accident, and it certainly doesn't happen because they try very hard to whitewash an issue, just like they tried to whitewash "history" with those statues..or by any dedicated effort of normalization by racists. It's not racist unless somebodies wearing a hood, anyway.
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