Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues

[BriarFox]

America of the 1860s is not the America of the 2010s. So what's your point? Maybe I am traumatized by the past actions of the Democratic Party. Does that mean I get to topple donkey statues?

The destruction of property in this way is flat out wrong.

But then I'm talking to someone who wants equality but then calls the other side asshole.

If you're a racist, you're an asshole, and I'm going to unapologetically wave that flag.

[Androidpk]

The second you start playing "slippery slope" with a white nationalist, neo-nazi hate march, you've already fallen right down that slope.

There's no grey area here. These are horrendous people, and one of them tried to kill dozens of people during that march. You also had neo-nazis who were all standing across from a Jewish Synagogue holding guns and screaming "Sieg Heil" at them over and over again. They came marching with fire and guns chanting "Jews will not replace us", and you're sitting here trying to talk about it as though it's really just the right-wing equivalent of people who showed up to march against hate.

And you know how you can tell how incredibly wrong you are?

You're currently making the same arguments as Neveragain- one of PC's card-carrying white supremecists. That alone should be a serious reality check for you.

I disagree. There is ALWAYS a gray area.

[Fortybox]

If you're a racist, you're an asshole, and I'm going to unapologetically wave that flag.

And so are the fools who destroyed property. What's your point?

[Androidpk]

And you know how you can tell how incredibly wrong you are?

You're currently making the same arguments as Neveragain- one of PC's card-carrying white supremecists. That alone should be a serious reality check for you.

You have to wonder to yourself.. "gee self.. I'm siding with the 3 biggest idiots on this forum: Backlash, time4fun and Ashliana.. maybe I'm just wrong in this case"

And to put the cherry on top, you quote one of them?

Good job pk...

[BriarFox]

And so are the fools who destroyed property. What's your point?

You're criticizing my arguments as implicitly hypocritical because I called people assholes; I'm replying that that argument doesn't work.

[Latrinsorm]

How about Martin Luther King/jr?

Didn't wage war on the United States, he can have a statue. And he already does! The system works.

[Androidpk]

Didn't wage war on the United States, he can have a statue. And he already does! The system works.

He was a non-violent offender against the state, just like Gandhi and others.

[Latrinsorm]

He was a non-violent offender against the state, just like Gandhi and others.

He was black too, and a Baptist, and a Ph.D. He was lots of things; one thing he was not was someone who waged war on the United States.

So he can have a statue!

Done and done.

[Fortybox]

You're criticizing my arguments as implicitly hypocritical because I called people assholes; I'm replying that that argument doesn't work.

I'm not the only one calling out your hypocrisy.

[Tgo01]

He was black too, and a Baptist, and a Ph.D. He was lots of things; one thing he was not was someone who waged war on the United States.

So he can have a statue!

Done and done.

I'm only half paying attention but what are you blathering on about now? People who wage war on the US can't have a statue? Very few people were responsible for "waging war" against the Union, most other people who fought for the Confederacy had no choice, the citizens in the south certainly had little to no choice.

Or do we just say they're all racist fucks so no statue!

What about in the UK, should they have statues of any US citizens or honor the US in any way?

What about India, should they have any statues honoring UK citizens in any way?

Go back far enough and someone fucked over another person's family in some way, so let's just do away with all statues and monuments, just to be on the safe side. This is the madness Democrats want to engage in. This is the madness Latrinsorm wants to engage in.

THIS.

IS.