Confederate History in Stone

[rareboy]

Not to mention that it's carved into yet another mountain that was sacred to and stolen from Native Americans.

Even in Canada right now...we have all the butt hurt wing-nut racist conservatives wailing about the damage and removal of monuments to the memory of some pretty nasty men who had now problem themselves in destroying heritage, culture and monuments of the people they enslaved or annihilated.

 

[purina]

...One time a police helicopter spotted me and sent a cop to climb up and get me. Watching him struggle and sweat to gain altitude, I decided to make his job a little easier by going down to meet him halfway. He said, “How the hell did you get up here?”

Did you tell him?

Maybe they could inscribe it Made in Occupied U.S.A..

 

[eddielee]

Just leave it alone. People are acting like complete idiots.

 

[eddielee]

Let us take deep breaths and be rational in our decisions. A revolution is not required, just equality and common sense reform. It is not necessary to burn down an entire house to bake a loaf of bread. Stone mountain is a remarkable achievement in stone carving art. The subject may not appeal to all, but that is no reason to do something, that in the future will be regretted.

 

[belamyi]

Let us take deep breaths and be rational in our decisions. A revolution is not required, just equality and common sense reform. It is not necessary to burn down an entire house to bake a loaf of bread. Stone mountain is a remarkable achievement in stone carving art. The subject may not appeal to all, but that is no reason to do something, that in the future will be regretted.

 

[eddielee]

Tarring and feathering, a prime example of American overreaction.

 

[belamyi]

^ Successful and glorious

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Not to speak of that great overreaction called "Confederate States of America" and, obviously, the even bigger one called American Civil War.

Then there are the Spanish-American War , the McCarthyism, the Rosa Parks incident, the Stonewall riots, the Patriot Act...

Overreaction is the stuff of/from which history is made

 

[TX-Beau]

Let us take deep breaths and be rational in our decisions. A revolution is not required, just equality and common sense reform. It is not necessary to burn down an entire house to bake a loaf of bread. Stone mountain is a remarkable achievement in stone carving art. The subject may not appeal to all, but that is no reason to do something, that in the future will be regretted.

Says the white guy...

 

[eddielee]

Says the white guy...

Says the voice of reason. Nothing I said could be taken as either narrow minded or offensive.

 

[eddielee]

^ Successful and glorious

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Not to speak of that great overreaction called "Confederate States of America" and, obviously, the even bigger one called American Civil War.

Then there are the Spanish-American War , the McCarthyism, the Rosa Parks incident, the Stonewall riots, the Patriot Act...

Overreaction is the stuff of/from which history is made

Yes, but you know George III was not the monster that the American patriots painted him to be, and the Civil War was unavoidable.

 

[TX-Beau]

Says the voice of reason. Nothing I said could be taken as either narrow minded or offensive.

...says the white guy...

 

[TX-Beau]

Yes, but you know George III was not the monster that the American patriots painted him to be, and the Civil War was unavoidable.

Of course it was, the people in those statues just had to give up their slaves, or are we going to ignore that because mentioning is unreasonable.

Please.

 

[belamyi]

Yes, but you know George III was not the monster that the American patriots painted him to be, and the Civil War was unavoidable.

Nobody is the monster they are ever painted to be, but doing so makes the rest of the world seem purer: they call that scapegoating, as criminal as the goat may "objectively" be... and, obviously, nothing that ever happened was avoidable.

Like I usually say, the efforts should not be spent so much on trying to prevent the unavoidable, as to plan the aftermath... that is why the "good", stupid people are always steered in the direction the "aftermathers" set.

 

[belamyi]

Of course it was, the people in those statues just had to give up their slaves, or are we going to ignore that because mentioning is unreasonable.

Please.

Like the American people are the monsters that the rest of the world, from jihadist terrorists to fashion stylers, paint them to be.

 

[eddielee]

...says the white guy...

:

 

[rareboy]

Let us take deep breaths and be rational in our decisions. A revolution is not required, just equality and common sense reform. It is not necessary to burn down an entire house to bake a loaf of bread. Stone mountain is a remarkable achievement in stone carving art. The subject may not appeal to all, but that is no reason to do something, that in the future will be regretted.

It is not a remarkable achievement in art. It is jackhammer garbage...not much different than chainsaw kitsch.

There is nothing redeeming about a KKK propaganda piece.

And the only regret in the future is that it wasn't wiped away earlier.

 

[TX-Beau]

It is not a remarkable achievement in art. It is jackhammer garbage...not much different than chainsaw kitsch.

There is nothing redeeming about a KKK propaganda piece.

And the only regret in the future is that it wasn't wiped away earlier.

You're right, next year nobody will even be noticing that statues have been pulled down. I do find it amusing that none of the dismissers and minimizers will talk about why those monuments offend millions of people.