Platonic_Caveman said...
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Corwin β 5 years ago(June 09, 2020 03:32 AM)
Platonic_Caveman said...
Are you saying we should hate the South forever because of slavery?
What about Italy? Should we hate Italy because the ancient Romans had slaves? Should there be no statues of Julius Caesar because he was a despot who owned slaves?
How far back do you go in your time machine to clean up history?
No, lol, but who wants to walk by a atatue of frigging Mussolini?
Classical world btw often gets evaluated differently. In part because slavery was not as racialized in the ancient Mediterranean. -
Platonic_Caveman β 5 years ago(June 09, 2020 03:51 AM)
Corwin said...
No, lol, but who wants to walk by a atatue of frigging Mussolini?
Classical world btw often gets evaluated differently. In part because slavery was not as racialized in the ancient Mediterranean.
Too soon for Mussolini. I just know that Hitler and his goons were only about Nazism and never accomplished anything beyond Nazism and the Holocaust. That's not comparable to Lee who was conflicted about slavery and did serve with distinction, like in the Mexican-America War for example. He was not a fascist like Hitler and Mussolini.
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β 5 years ago(June 08, 2020 02:50 AM)Slippery slope fallacy. You can make a case by case assessment of which statues can stay up based on REAL historical value and the ones that simply honor confederate war criminals can be removed.
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Platonic_Caveman β 5 years ago(June 08, 2020 03:30 AM)
There's no slippery slope. They were all Christians who believed homosexuality is a sin, the blacks and the whites. Again, so?
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β 5 years ago(June 08, 2020 11:49 AM)The statues honoring supporters of racism need to be removed, thatβs the argument I made. Thatβs a reasonable opinion. Anything else youβre adding is slippery slope BS.
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Platonic_Caveman β 5 years ago(June 08, 2020 04:20 PM)
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington too? They were racists who held slaves.
What about Christian homophobes like Harriet Tubman? They thought I'd burn in hell.
The argument I'm making is that you can't judge people who lived 300 years ago by today's moral standards.
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MovieManCin2 β 5 years ago(June 09, 2020 04:01 AM)
Your assessment is 100% correct, but can you blame them? If any white person or Conservative tries to defend anything, the
dishonest left biased media
will immediately rip him/her a new one. Then they will attempt to
destroy
him/her!
I live in the Midwest and I also have no problem with Southerners having pride in their history. This whole thing is disgusting!
MAGA! FAFO!
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. 
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MovieManCin2 β 5 years ago(June 09, 2020 04:07 AM)
Yes. That is one of the main problems when you
give into the Radical Left
. Today it's statues, tomorrow it's books, the following day it's videos. They are attempting to
erase history
just as in George Orwell's
1984.
This helps them towards what they desire the most:
complete CONTROL over every aspect of our lives!
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β 5 years ago(June 08, 2020 02:47 AM)Do I need to explain the reprehensible act of owning other people? All the confederate statues can go. Of all the ****ty people who fought on the side of racism youβre really using ONE to defend the rest of them ?
Youβre smarter than that.
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