Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[bennyboy]

Okay, I think I'm going to have to concede this one. I've approached every angle and abstract principle that I think is relevant, and in the end, the balance seems to weigh toward removal being the better option. Putting all civil war stuff into museums where they can be taken as a collection and viewed wholistically sounds pretty darned educational. My personal interest in having something to look at in the park comes from monuments in both Korea and Canada, but none of them are controversial, at least not in this way and to this degree.

That being said, I have a general disgust toward humanity these days. If you extend free speech, people say the harshest, most fucktarded and hurtful things. That makes you want to censor, but soon as the censorship starts, it's a fucking witch hunt. And yes, I do think that left is bordering on fascism, and I do think that much good debate is lost under rhetoric. But there just doesn't seem to be anything to be done about it, and that's depressing-- maybe we've hit that population density where we all see each other as environmental pollution, rather than as decent human beings with differences of opinion, and in doing so have made ourselves the same.

Really, it does depress me-- why can't I just go to work, wave to my neighbor over the fence a couple times a week, and enjoy a vacation once a year?