Posted on 08/27/2006 9:13:18 AM PDT by smug
It's always entertaining when Watie actually cites a source. You have to wonder about his reading habits when he's quoting a hardcore feminist polemicist like Brownmiller. Evidence that he's really a DU troll?
Here's a quote to tell you where Brownmiller's coming from:
"Man’s discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times, along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe. From prehistoric times to the present, I believe, rape has played a critical function. It is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear."
also, the last time i remember it was UNFAIR & "playing dirty pool" to try "to tar a person" with the sins/innocence of another person. i'm , for example, NOT responsible for YOU being a scalawag/turncoat/troll/dunce, just because i post to you.
free dixie,sw
i note that "the nameless,shunned one" posted something to both of us.
i have NOT & WILL NOT bother to read or respond his BILGE, evasions & LIES, though i'm sure you will.
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Yeah, I'm still here pointing out your lies. Did you catch the 1860 census page showing that the people of Rockwall were counted? Chalk up another Watie lie exposed. All in a day's work for "the nameless, shunned one."
No. Just imaginary.
Turns out that Barrett is just repeating Stephens' account. Above on the same page he says, "The following reminiscences of the Hampton Roads conferrence, are taken from a Southern paper, and are understood to have been written by A. H. Stephens, or at his instance," A few paragraphs down, just above the "root" passage, he writes, "The special report made by Stephens, Hunter and Campbell, on this conference, as quoted in the article just cited from, says"...."
It was probibly in the lobby of the building where they were protesting.
That's a big difference then the way the Confederate flag has been used by white power elements.
You are jumping to conclusions here. The flag belonged to the family of the guy who wielded it.
Big difference re the Confederate flag? Well, it's true I'm not aware of any Confederate flags used to bop people. Perhaps you'd be interested in a description of other uses of the Stars and Stripes in those Boston demonstrations, that is when the protestors weren't throwing rocks and bottles at black kids.
They waved, not burned, American flags during nearly every demonstration. They consistently invoked the tradition of American liberty in their fight to retain it. Unfortunately, this sometimes resulted in a perverse blend of patriotism and racism, which culminated when a Charlestown youth literally speared a black attorney with a flag pole adorned with the Stars and Stripes at City Hall Plaza, a moment captured in a famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph.
You and I probably agree that Democrats are much more guilty of practicing racism than Republicans.
One more Freeper Civil War endless thread argument lunacy ping!
I bought more popcorn after running out reading all the threads........
Sorry.
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I believe that I don't. But I do believe that I am well acquainted with your well known habit of wild exaggeration.
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Even more sadly, you honestly believe that people accept your posts as fact.
Stand and the rest of these die-hard neo-confederates would rather ignore the posted data on the likes of their own kind, such as KKK lawyer Kirk Lyons and his interconnections to the OK City bombing. They are willing to work with anyone, as long as it promotes their Lost Cause.
Phrase root hog or die "work or fail" first attested 1834, Amer.Eng. (in works of Davey Crockett, who noted it as an "old saying").
According to Campbell's book, Lincoln used the expression to defend emancipation against objections. It does seem strange that there'd be argument about emancipation in the last year of the war.
Given that both Campbell and Stephens allude to the phrase, Lincoln probably said it, but consider that in the final months of the war, Confederates, who we're told had been considering freeing the slaves themselves, were trying to get around the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln's impatience with such talk was natural.
I would tend to agree, it was inevitable, and by this time, Lincoln was adamant - so many had died, he was determined that slavery would end. Given Justice Campbell's accounts (considered an abolutionist by many a Southerner), I'd say he would have had little occasion to lie about the conversation. Regardless of whether Lincoln were addressing whites or blacks, considering it was the union armies that had so mercilessly devasted the Southern farms, it was still a very callous viewpoint to hold.
"we are pleased you are entertained.(sarcasm button: ON.)"
free dixie,sw
Thanks stand, it just wouldn't be a civil war thread without hearing from you personally.
You made my day...........I ran out of popcorn again btw.
RIDICULING your STUPIDITY & BIGOTRY.
free dixie,sw
unfortunately, some of the unionists (i can think of three (3) offhand) are also brainDEAD.
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