RE: Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America
August 18, 2017 at 1:17 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2017 at 1:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Ignorance that leads to racist actions and sympathies -is- racism....CL. Thing is, these people aren't ignorant of it. Let me give you an example.
I can (and have, on these boards) explain to people that the rebel flag did not stand for slavery nor was it the confederate flag. However, no one who flies that flag is ignorant of the fact that it menaces people for reasons entirely unrelated to it's historical use in the civil war. Similarly, no one is ignorant of why monuments to confederate leaders erected in the post war period menace people for reasons entirely unrelated to what happened in the civil war...but more accurately, for what continued to happen after the civil war and to this very day.
No one is or can be ignorant of this. No one can legitimately contend that the last 200 years of our history as it relates to race relations and symbols are a cmplete blank for them. That they just don't know, and just can't understand why Some People™ take offense. They know it, and they fly the flag anyway, they know it, and they argue for the statue anyway. This is, at it's absolute best..... racial apathy. It is, easily, the most prevalent form of racism. Racial apathy is the silence upon which racial antipathy depends and thrives.
I can (and have, on these boards) explain to people that the rebel flag did not stand for slavery nor was it the confederate flag. However, no one who flies that flag is ignorant of the fact that it menaces people for reasons entirely unrelated to it's historical use in the civil war. Similarly, no one is ignorant of why monuments to confederate leaders erected in the post war period menace people for reasons entirely unrelated to what happened in the civil war...but more accurately, for what continued to happen after the civil war and to this very day.
No one is or can be ignorant of this. No one can legitimately contend that the last 200 years of our history as it relates to race relations and symbols are a cmplete blank for them. That they just don't know, and just can't understand why Some People™ take offense. They know it, and they fly the flag anyway, they know it, and they argue for the statue anyway. This is, at it's absolute best..... racial apathy. It is, easily, the most prevalent form of racism. Racial apathy is the silence upon which racial antipathy depends and thrives.
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