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@DonaldTrumpOfficial I am not talking about statues of presidents am I?
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I vehemently disagree with the removal of statue, and I believe southern soldiers were every bit as noble or wicked as northern officers and soldiers.
It hurts me that people I love and adore want to be part of the madness of removing statues of GREAT MEN like Robert E Lee.
Slavery was a normal thing in the past and condoned by the Christian bible, slave owners were not bad people and southern generals were not bad people.
They were part of a system that humanity grew out of.
The removal of the historical statues reminds me of the beginning of the slow death of America,
We might as well start the book burning.
I think this fabricated selective outrage is shameful.
It hurts me that people I love and adore want to be part of the madness of removing statues of GREAT MEN like Robert E Lee.
Slavery was a normal thing in the past and condoned by the Christian bible, slave owners were not bad people and southern generals were not bad people.
They were part of a system that humanity grew out of.
The removal of the historical statues reminds me of the beginning of the slow death of America,
We might as well start the book burning.
I think this fabricated selective outrage is shameful.
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@puck61 Slavery was a normal thing? Maybe so. However, it will NEVER be normal to me.
@SW-User Sometimes, in all honesty, and strictly out of frustration and anger, I think we should reinstate it. The truth is ugly, so people cover it with pretty lies, but if you objectively look around in the world and here in the United States, you would see how I feel.
NO! I AM NOT SAYING WE SHOULD BRING BACK SLAVERY.
I'm saying that the truth is so frustrating, and the 'pretty lies' that we cover the truth with, are so frustrating, that I consider South Africa before the end of apartheid and I consider the US before the civil war, and it makes me do a mental double take.
NO! I AM NOT SAYING WE SHOULD BRING BACK SLAVERY.
I'm saying that the truth is so frustrating, and the 'pretty lies' that we cover the truth with, are so frustrating, that I consider South Africa before the end of apartheid and I consider the US before the civil war, and it makes me do a mental double take.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
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@cherokeepatti I do too.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@SW-User I had this discussion when that rock sculpture in Bamiyam was destroyed and people were making a big deal out of it....my reply to the complainers was that I never heard them complain so much about how the women and girls were treated over there under the extremist ruling it than they did to a rock carving.
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@cherokeepatti Amazing.
asnorkler · 70-79, M
Simply because people who cherish them see them as honoring a half millions men who fought and died for duty, not slavery and for the millions who suffured the hardship of war and survived, but not unscathed. The issues involved were political not military and that's why empathy and wisdom created those memorials as memory to preserve.
We who know war have no problem with the memorials, but with the phony attempts to divide the country again!
We who know war have no problem with the memorials, but with the phony attempts to divide the country again!
asnorkler · 70-79, M
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You know I respect you but I have a different opinion on that.
I don't believe they are oppressive, that is my opinion, I believe I am being told that I should feel oppressed by them.
They are part of history, a part we may not like, but I do not believe in suppressing all we do not like.
Nobody asks what is next idea someone won't like and will demand be erased from our consciousness.
I don't believe they are oppressive, that is my opinion, I believe I am being told that I should feel oppressed by them.
They are part of history, a part we may not like, but I do not believe in suppressing all we do not like.
Nobody asks what is next idea someone won't like and will demand be erased from our consciousness.
plungesponge · 41-45, M
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@plungesponge But that isn't at all what's happened.
TheProphet · M
The monuments are memorials to our Heritage and in memory of heroes lost. They aren't monuments to oppression.
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@TheProphet The thing is Sherman (0n the right side) was a racists through and through and would be a white supremacist if he lived today. His memorial gets to stay up??
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@TheProphet oh well since you put it that way ,that makes it ok
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It's not important to those who aren't racist ...you said this way more eloquently then I could
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@SW-User yeah
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