RE: Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues
September 15, 2017 at 9:19 am
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2017 at 9:23 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 15, 2017 at 8:48 am)bennyboy Wrote: 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.Statue enthusiasm is not a free speech issue. The left can;t border on facism..by definition...but that's yet another far right talking point, "nu uh, you are!". For the "american left" to border on facism it would first have to become "the american right". Don't get me wrong, it's trying...but obviously the GOP has a headstart on that one.
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?
Seeing each other as decent human beings with differences of opinion does not require white supremacist yard arts presence. I don't need a statue of Lee to tell me that those motherfuckers are different......and I'm sure that their mothers love them very much.
(I've known that my whole life. I've been walking amongst bigots in their natural environment since the day I was born.
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