RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 18, 2017 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2017 at 1:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A giant bronze piece of cornbread would better represent southern heritage and decency.
Not all racism is overt, the worst racism is subtle - and that's how it manages to persist for far longer than the showy displays. The statues are overt, but what makes people rally around them is subtle. That, will invariably outlast each and every one of them regardless of whether they're melted for scrap or stowed away in some temple to our mistakes.
People can hem and haw about generalizing a group, but it fits. If preserving these pieces of "heritage", to any given persons mind, takes precedence over the descendants of those oppressed people literally living in the shadow of monuments to their misery..they are either racial antipathists, or racial apathists...but both groups are racist. I;d like to believe that the former group is smaller than the latter....and it certainly seems that we've suddenly come down with an plague of self unaware soft racists, and people who refuse to call a racist a racist out of some misplaced sense of decency or fairness to "both sides". Sure, there are two sides. One side is racist, the other side is not that - understanding the racist side is not possible without acknowledging their racism..however soft or subtle or unaware or "well meaning" - if there can be such a thing.
They can pretend to be statue enthusiasts, or heritage preservers, or whatever they like...and even if they truly believe, themselves, that this is all they are...what they are doing is euphemizing overt -and- subtle racism...and hey, maybe that's why -they- don't know that they're racists and racist sympathizers, come to think of it. It's probably on the rest of us to point this out to the "decent people" who -totally- wouldn't be racists, if they knew what they were doing served the cause of racism. OFC, none of this...exceedingly generous appraisal applies to the folks who go from zero to bitching about leftists and statues of MLK in .6 seconds. Those people have outed themselves as a literal Lost Cause beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Not all racism is overt, the worst racism is subtle - and that's how it manages to persist for far longer than the showy displays. The statues are overt, but what makes people rally around them is subtle. That, will invariably outlast each and every one of them regardless of whether they're melted for scrap or stowed away in some temple to our mistakes.
People can hem and haw about generalizing a group, but it fits. If preserving these pieces of "heritage", to any given persons mind, takes precedence over the descendants of those oppressed people literally living in the shadow of monuments to their misery..they are either racial antipathists, or racial apathists...but both groups are racist. I;d like to believe that the former group is smaller than the latter....and it certainly seems that we've suddenly come down with an plague of self unaware soft racists, and people who refuse to call a racist a racist out of some misplaced sense of decency or fairness to "both sides". Sure, there are two sides. One side is racist, the other side is not that - understanding the racist side is not possible without acknowledging their racism..however soft or subtle or unaware or "well meaning" - if there can be such a thing.
They can pretend to be statue enthusiasts, or heritage preservers, or whatever they like...and even if they truly believe, themselves, that this is all they are...what they are doing is euphemizing overt -and- subtle racism...and hey, maybe that's why -they- don't know that they're racists and racist sympathizers, come to think of it. It's probably on the rest of us to point this out to the "decent people" who -totally- wouldn't be racists, if they knew what they were doing served the cause of racism. OFC, none of this...exceedingly generous appraisal applies to the folks who go from zero to bitching about leftists and statues of MLK in .6 seconds. Those people have outed themselves as a literal Lost Cause beyond a shadow of a doubt.
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