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AZDuck's Considered Opinion on Southern Monuments

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,690 Founders Club
    Dude61 said:

    GrundleStiltzkin said:

    Is that Lenin statue still in Fremont?

    Statues that represent evil, hatred and bigotry, but are otherwise politically correct are allowed to stand.
    The Lennin statue is more like a cool souvenir. I liken it to "betting for shirts" in Men's Rowing. When you win a race, your vanquished opponents have to give you the shirt of their back (literally). In a drawer somewhere at home, I've got a bunch of CAL rowing shirts, for example. In this case, we whipped the USSR and we got a nice piece or memorabilia to commemorate the W.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,418 Founders Club
    Or a coach who has his Black players stay home so the DAWGS could give up 69 to UCLA
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  • creepycoug
    creepycoug Member Posts: 24,271
    RaceBannon said:

    Or a coach who has his Black players stay home so the DAWGS could give up 69 to UCLA

    You guysm are funny: 69 and "erected"

    Where's @Swaye at?
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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 38,559 Standard Supporter
    Tearing down, rewriting and removing or destroying history history is never a good idea. It's what dictators and historically evil regimes have done. History is there to teach us and remind us so things don't happen again. It doesn't exist for emotional reasons. I've never been "offended" by history. It's in the past and cannot be changed.

    Stop being a cunt if you're offended by things that happened long ago. Things changed. Men died to change it. GTFOI or GTFO.
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    Sledog said:

    Tearing down, rewriting and removing or destroying history history is never a good idea. It's what dictators and historically evil regimes have done. History is there to teach us and remind us so things don't happen again. It doesn't exist for emotional reasons. I've never been "offended" by history. It's in the past and cannot be changed.

    Stop being a cunt if you're offended by things that happened long ago. Things changed. Men died to change it. GTFOI or GTFO.

    Helps Trump. IMO
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  • TierbsHsotBoobs
    TierbsHsotBoobs Member Posts: 39,680
    RaceBannon said:

    Or a coach who has his Black players stay home so the DAWGS could give up 69 to UCLA

    Nice
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    Pitchfork51 said:

    Why didn't they do this shit like 100 years ago

    Because the culture of victimology and entitlement wasn't a factor.















    That and people were raciss as fuck 100 years ago.
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,919
    YellowSnow said:

    BearsWiin said:

    I tend to think that what Mayor Landrieu said about Confederate monuments in NOLA applies to all of them. If you haven't watched or read this speech, you should.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j81MkNgnXuY

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/opinion/mitch-landrieus-speech-transcript.html?_r=0



    I can't really find fault with Landrieus logic and agree on snuffing out the "Cult of the lost Cause" but to play devil's advocate, where do we draw the line? Is the line of demarcation those that committed treason- i.e., Lee, Jackson, Davis, etc? What about those who participated in and profited from the Peculiar Institution. Do we need to remove the Washington/Jefferson monuments?
    It's not an unwarranted concern. Once these things get rolling, hysteria takes over. See the Durham incident yesterday.
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