(August 17, 2017 at 6:42 pm)A Theist Wrote:(August 17, 2017 at 3:25 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I understand what you are saying and it makes sense. Honestly, I personally don't have a strong opinion on these statues either way. I guess the fairest thing to do would be to let the people of the city itself decide. My response was only to say that Neo's opinion on this particular issue with historical statues doesn't make him a supremacist sympathizer, even if it is the same opinion as the supremacist themselves.
Here's something to think about. What if the Confederate statues and monuments had not been ordered for removal? What would have happened in Charlottesville? Or better yet, what wouldn't have happened in Charlottesville? To many Southerners those Confederate monuments are a connection to their ancestry and culture.
To many Southerners, that "connection to their ancestry and culture" is one where their ancestors were bought and sold like so many bales of cotton. That "connection to their ancestry and culture" is one of knowing that the culture in which they live honors men who fought, died, and killed to defend their own right to own the ancestors of those walking past these statues. That "ancestry and culture" is one where their own slavery was "justified" by the "good Book" that their allegedly-Christian overlords force-fed them.
Here's something to think about: what if we stopped force-feeding blacks reminders of the subjugation of their race in our history? I'm sorry, but the butthurt of a few hundred doesn't stack up against the honest feelings of repression and alienation of millions deriving in part from the presence of these unnecessary reminders. Cry me a fucking river about your ancestry and culture.
