"The truth doesn't care about your feelings."
It was brash and blunt and utterly true. I can assure you that, despite the liberal tactic that some choose to employ of asserting that any criticism of the confederacy is a condemnation of southerners, none of us are here to "make southerners feel guilty". Actually the notion is rather preposterous - how can an event that took place 150 years ago and in which not a single one of us participated cause you guilt?
The reason why I replied to you a month ago and then reminded you on this thread is because of the importance of intellectual honesty that we not pull the numbers out of our nethers. It's wrong whether Michael Medved does it, I do it, or you do it.
It's not about shame, or guilt, or "cultural marxism" - it's about striving for the truth.
If you don’t think that using the past to cast guilt on the present is not occurring, you live in more of a fantasy land that I could ever imagine. Why did Ben Afflick not want his slave owner ancestors revealed during a show about ancestry? In 1960, it would have been met with a shrug, in 2015, he would have received hate mail and death threats, been called a cracker and possibly - just possibly - denied work. It is called Cultural Marxism and is alive and well. Just because you don’t know about it doesn’t mean it is not occurring.
The truth IS the truth but statistics are something else. As I said in my last post, I don’t give a damn if 93% of southerners owned slaves. I leave the bean-counting to you.