(August 18, 2017 at 4:48 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: To be clear, I have 0 problem with the statues being removed. I 100% understand why someone would want them removed.
All I'm saying is that I just don't think that every person who is against the statue's removal is necessarily either a racist or "acting racist." (Which I honestly don't see how someone can act racist without being racist. Racism requires intent, imho)
Anyway, that's basically all I'm saying.
Every person who might object to the removal of memorials to the Nazis is necessarily a national socialist either. That doesn't mean I will thereby reserve for each of them a significant fraction of the sympathy that I might have for a descendant of Holocaust survivor who wishes to have those memorial removed.
When descendants of slaves wishes to remove statues of those who fought and killed to keep their ancestors enslaved, particularly when those who fought and killed to enslave have no other significant accomplishments meriting rememberance, those who feel kinship to fighter for slavery and wish to continue to impose upon descendants of slaves will get no sympathy from me whatsoever.
