Things that made you laugh today (Political Version)

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

Uh...what? That's the exact opposite of what's going on.

Germany pretends it doesn't exist anymore by making the shit illegal and driving the groups under ground. Americans embrace the idea of free speech and allow these morons to parade around in the open for everyone to mock them.

Germany, and really all of Europe, likes to PRETEND they don't have a bunch of racist assholes in their country and they do this through various means of censorship.

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That's not even close to the truth.

Teaching the subject of the Holocaust and the Nazi era is mandatory in German schools and in addition to the classroom curriculum, almost all students have either visited a concentration camp or a Holocaust memorial or museum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uTtxPuw54U

They actually debate if the nation can and should overcome their guilt from WW2

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Originally Posted by SHAFT

2. When his father-in-law died, he took over. He didn't free the slaves.

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George Washington specifically stipulated in his will that his slaves would go to his wife, he didn't free them either.

Time for a huge undertaking by renaming everything Washington related and removing a lot of monuments.

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

Oh fucking stop with the bullshit leftist narrative. The KKK and other assorted bigots have been holding rallies far longer than Trump has been president. The only difference is now the "anti-protesters" are getting increasingly violent at these rallies and tensions have risen. You aren't doing anyone any favors by attacking someone for expressing their free speech, it has already led to the deaths of 3 people. It's time to stop.

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When Nazi's and KKK show up, I hope there are people there to counter-protest every time. The fact you have a problem with people protesting Nazi's, KKK, and racists, shows a bit about you.

When people stop protesting outright racism, we have a problem. A bigger problem than we have now.

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

George Washington specifically stipulated in his will that his slaves would go to his wife, he didn't free them either.

Time for a huge undertaking by renaming everything Washington related and removing a lot of monuments.

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I've never been a fan of this type of 'race to the bottom' argument.

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Originally Posted by Pin

That's not even close to the truth.

Teaching the subject of the Holocaust and the Nazi era is mandatory in German schools and in addition to the classroom curriculum, almost all students have either visited a concentration camp or a Holocaust memorial or museum.

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What and we don't teach about the Holocaust in our schools?

And I didn't say Germany pretended the Holocaust never happened, I said they pretend they don't have a Nazi/racism problem in their country.

Prior to the civil war, in many places, loyalty was to state before country. Lee went with Virginia. If he had gone with the North he'd be called a traitor to his state. He really couldn't win.

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Originally Posted by Pin

We can argue the merits of that decision, or his privilege, however, to lump him in with people who are actually racist is a stretch.

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Disregarding that it is, in fact, a statue honoring a traitor against the United States, how about lumping it in as being part of the rampant addition of these "memorials" all throughout the south during times of pushback against black people having rights?

We could talk about what else was happening in Virginia around the time that statue was erected. Just on the actual state government level there was the Racial Integrity Act (and not long after, the "one drop" law) and the Public Assemblages act. It's not a coincidence that so many "reminders" of the Confederacy popped up in places at the same times that people felt white racial superiority was especially threatened...

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Originally Posted by SHAFT

When Nazi's and KKK show up, I hope there are people there to counter-protest every time. The fact you have a problem with people protesting Nazi's, KKK, and racists, shows a bit about you.

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I don't have a problem with counter protests, unlike you I actually believe in free speech and the right to assemble.

What I do have a problem with is ATTACKING people expressing their free speech, which is why I used the word ATTACKING in my post you quoted.

The fact that you see nothing wrong with physically assaulting someone because you don't like their words says a whole shit load more about you than any of my posts say about me.

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

What and we don't teach about the Holocaust in our schools?

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Not sure where you're getting this from, nor how the US teaches the holocaust relevant.

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Originally Posted by Tgo01

And I didn't say Germany pretended the Holocaust never happened, I said they pretend they don't have a Nazi/racism problem in their country.

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This makes it ok for us to pretend we don't have one as well then?

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Originally Posted by Gelston

Hey Shaft, just say that you disagree with the freedoms of speech and assembly.



He actually did free those slaves, not immediately, but he did.

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I believe Nazi's and racists should remain hidden. When they do show on public, I expect people to counter-protest and if the Nazi's get their asses kicked, im ok with it. In fact I encourage it.