ClimateSanity
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A clueless totalitarian at that.
This is what emboldened white supremacists look like
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Arthur Brain
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To be fair he called you a totallarian...whatever that is...probably the latest political monster uprising in the next Dr Who series.
:liberals:
Arthur Brain
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Well, clueless and totalitarian do kinda go hand in hand...
Tear down a monument to the preserver of the Union and the man who, his own failings notwithstanding, ended slavery? That wouldn't make much sense, would it? A bit like defending monuments commemorating the men who attempted to destroy that union and perpetuate slavery. History isn't the issue. How we frame it and what we honor is.
What I believe is that monuments to Confederate leaders, largely in uniform and ready for battle, send the wrong message and have, historically, reflected and sponsored a noble sense of an ignoble struggle, which in turn went some way to supporting the worst vestiges of it within the culture. These men served a racist, dehumanizing cause, whatever their personal feelings it is that linkage that condemns their commemoration. It is a cautionary tale at best.
drbrumley
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Exactly!!! How we frame it does matter.....you guys throw the baby out with the bathwater...
Because there is something of value to redeem his place in history.
drbrumley
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That's what it's about folks....slavery is the smokescreen
drbrumley
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Yeah, like this gem...
“Senator Douglas remarked . . . that . . . this government was made for the white people and not for Negroes.* Why, in point of fact, I think so too.”
Can you read? I thought I said "something", not "everything".
