Leftists Purging History or Al Queda in America

[vorlon13]

I think I didn't help too much either, LOL !!

[Mister Agenda]

There's a dearth of statues to actual southern heroes of the War of Secession, who helped free slaves and joined the fight against the perpetuation of slavery. If their statues aren't worth putting up, I don't see an appeal to history as a valid reason to keep the statues of those who tried to keep them enslaved displayed on public property. Let them be moved to a private museum or sold to a collector. The public should not have to support monuments to villains.

[The Grand Nudger]

So....calling for the removal of a statue and blowing up a statue as a unilateral act of fundy dictatorship, entirely the same...Neo?

Puff puff pass, man.

[Jackalope]

So....calling for the removal of a statue and blowing up a statue as a unilateral act of fundy dictatorship, entirely the same...Neo?

Puff puff pass, man.

Precisely. One is done through legitimate political processes, the other is not.

I leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which is which.

[downbeatplumb]

The way to show monuments to the slave trade is in a museum in context. So don't destroy, them move them to somewhere where it is pointed out the evil they represent and how the US used to tolerate that sort of thing.

They need to be a warning from history, not part of everyday life.

[Shell B]

The people who live in towns with Confederate "hero" statues are the people who are calling to have them removed. They don't want to look at them. They believe there are better figures to glorify.

The people who lived in Afghanistan didn't ask for one of the biggest, oldest religious statues in the world to be demolished. That was done by the Taliban, who were forcefully taking over the country. They were removing religious iconography so they could install their own religious system of law.

I hope you can see that these two things are not equal at all. It's the same as people saying that protesting Nazis is the same as being a Nazi.

[Pat Mustard]

Bullshitting liar Chad Wooters pulls bullshitting lies out his arse again.

You know only for a slight philosophical difference over your shared imaginary friend, you and al-qaeda'd be perfect for each other. The narrowminded bigotry is an exact match.

[FatAndFaithless]

Ah yes, saying "This certain thing should be changed!" is identical to a literal terrorist organization blowing shit up.

[Cyberman]

Accidentally created Duplicate Thread...sorry

NP, I took care of it.

Must be some of that purging history thing I hear tell about.

[Neo-Scholastic]

The wrong one seems to be erased, though I saw it. Yeah, we shouldn't venerate slaveholders, even if they were founding fathers, or the first president. You can keep it in a museum, but we should be venerating more enlightened people than that.

Martin Luther King was a plagiarizer and adulterer. Perhaps we shouldn't venerate intellectual piracy and sexual immorality either.