On 8/31/17, 12:39 PM, in article oo9ol8$k2d$
7...@dont-email.me, "RonB"
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ronb02...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Funny that most of these statues have been around since the twenties,
>> yet we are only now hearing that they are offensive. Where was the
>> outrage at these "racist" monuments during the Obama years? Or for
>> that matter even during the civil rights clashes in the Sixties?
>>
>> What we have going on today is that a an entire generation without
>> purpose has been systematically brainwashed by gray-ponytail professors
>> reliving through classroom nostalgia lectures their own "glorious" college
>> days as filthy communist hippy protestors. Now the new snowflakes are
>> looking everywhere for any "cause" to call their own. And of course
>> the communists and anarchists are all to happy to stir up shit and herd
>> these morons to a riot.
>>
>> Racial and other assorted social divisions that had been dying off for
>> decades are now being rejuvenated to an exponential degree precisely
>> because of this violence from the left. Take heed, Chris. If you don't
>> hate yourself sufficiently for being a straight white male, your fellow
>> liberals will be happy to fill that void. Watch your back, and be sure
>> to keep a current list of sjw offenses handy so you don't wind up being
>> the star of batting practice.
>
> It's the hypocrisy of the situation that bothers me. George Washington (and
> many if not most of our country's founders) were slave owners.
And...???
They were not fighting a war for the "right" to own slaves. They were
traitors to the UK, but NOT to the US. The fact they owned slaves is, of
course, a black mark on the history of the US, but for you to try to equate
it to people seeking to take down symbols of slavery is absurd... it is a
false equivalency.
> When are we going to pull down their monuments?
Keep in mind this question is based on your false equivalency.
> General Lee released his (inherited, not bought) slaves in 1862. Generals
> Grant and Sherman (of the Union Army) didn't release their (bought) slaves
> until almost 1866 after the 13th Amendment was passed.
Again, how do you think this is relevant to the fact they were traitors to
the US who fought for the "right" to keep slaves?
And keep in mind neither Lee nor at least most of his known surviving
relatives wanted there to be monuments to him.
Maybe you just have no clue what is even being discussed?
You are defending the idea that we should keep symbols of slavery around...
you do not understand why we should not commemorate the "right" to own
slaves.
And that is insane.
> Abraham Lincoln, the "great emancipator," was a racist.
Ah, so the fact he was a racist means it is fine to keep symbols of slavery
up, many specifically put up as forms of intimidation against blacks?
Really, how do you get from point A to point B on that? How do you think
they are even connected?
> ~~ Lincoln was, indeed, a white supremacist. In his 1858 debate with Sen.
> Steven Douglas, Lincoln maintained, łAnd inasmuch as they cannot so live,
> while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and
> inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior
> position assigned to the white race.˛
> ~~
>
> And ...
>
> ~~
> Lincoln was no supporter of racial equality. In fact, while debating Douglas
> in 1858, Lincoln declared the following: łI will say then that I am not, nor
> ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and
> political equality of the white and black races.˛
> ~~
>
> And ...
>
> While the previous quotes prove that, politically, Lincoln was not firmly
> insistent on freeing the slaves of the South, his following quote reveals
> that he personally did not want to: łI have no purpose, directly or
> indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where
> it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no
> inclination to do so.˛
> ~~
>
> And ...
>
> ~~
> Lincoln was not necessarily against the expansion of slavery. But, he only
> had one primary request: whites and Black could not mix in the new land.
> When addressing the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, Lincoln quoted the
> following: łThere is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white
> people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black
> races Š A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of
> amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best
> thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white
> and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in
> KansasŠ˛
> ~~
>
> And ...
>
> ~~
> Lincoln believed that Black people living in close proximity to white people
> would ruin the image of the pure white family that he found ideal. He felt
> the birth of mixed race children would cause family life to łcollapse.˛ He
> said, łOur republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as
> blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the
> national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed
> bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.˛
> ~~
>
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Again, sure, this is a very bad part of US history... but how do you see it
as relevant in any way?
> So when are we (hypocrites) going to tear down the Lincoln Memorial in
> Washington D.C. (a city named after a slave owner)?
Again: the only reason this would make any sense is if we accept your false
equivalency.
> Self-righteous hypocrisy is such a "wonderful" thing, isn't it?
I do not think so... but you are presenting yours here with apparent glee.
Why?
> Confederate war memorials were built by U.S. tax dollars (starting in the
> 1920s), by law to commemorate the ultimate sacrifices made by Southern
> Americans.
By traitors to the US who were fighting for the "right" to keep slaves.
And YOU defend that.
> Confederate soldiers were given the status of United States veterans, by law,
> in the 1950s.
Gee, what a coincidence... as blacks were gaining more equal rights, those
who fought for the "right" to keep them as slaves were given heightened
status. THAT is a HUGE blemish on America... and far more recent than the
ones you point out about Lincoln.
> The object of these moves was to heal the rift between North and South.
Lee himself did not want such monuments precisely so we could heal. But how
does putting up monuments celebrating those who fought for the "right" to
own other human being going to "heal the rift"? It does not even make sense.
They were put there as a form of intimidation... your own timeline supports
that.
> Now the idiot morons, bought and paid for by Soros & Co. are trying to AGAIN
> stoke a race war in this country. And the idiot liberals gulp it up like
> mindless lemmings.
Gee, trying to take DOWN memorials celebrating those who fought for the
"right" to have slaves is, to you, somehow "stok[ing] a race war". And the
only ones who would want to denounce such memorials are paid by Soros? WHAT?
Seriously, how can I sign up? I do not like him but if he is really paying
people to openly and actively denounce slavery and the bigots who still want
to keep the symbols of it around, then SIGN ME UP! I will happily accept his
paychecks!
But to you, supporting those symbols of slavery is SO important that you
would NOT accept even being paid to denounce them... which is an impossible
position to defend.
Thanks for backing yourself into a corner so badly, I guess.