SCV Announces Gettysburg Boycott

Sons of Confederate Veterans ^ | 8/25/2004 | Brag Bowling

[oyez]

.... liberal south-hating bull$hit!

>I call it penis envy.

[Kirkwood]

She didn't like seeing the "racist" confederate battle flag throughout the movie, I supppose. It is a 6 hour movie and aqbout half of that are battle scenes.

[cyborg]

Well if she's not from this country, then she may just be under the impression that it is a racist symbol. I barely remember that movie though so now I want to see it *lol*

[dangus]

>>Gettysburg is definitely Yankee territory, way over-commercialized and poorly maintained.<<

Yeah, the South is so well-known for subtlety. *chuckle* Been to Memphis, lately? Atlanta? The Latin Quarter? We'll just blame Orlando on all those Yankee invaders...

[Kirkwood]

No she was a NY-based flight attendant. I think she just assumed I was watching because I was rooting for the South! Heck it is just a good movie that filled up much of an 8 hour flight. We had a couple of Italians and a Japanese flight attendant and another American and they had no problem with it, nor did anyone around me.

Actually it is not 6 hours, but if you play certain scenes over like I do and look at the extra stuff on the DVD, you can stretch it out that long. Jeff Daniels is awesome in the movie.

[Arkinsaw]

Yeah, the South is so well-known for subtlety. *chuckle* Been to Memphis, lately? Atlanta? The Latin Quarter? We'll just blame Orlando on all those Yankee invaders...

Go to Shiloh sometime and you'll see just how huge a difference. Gettysburg is a t-shirt store, Shiloh is a quiet reflective place.

[dangus]

Gettysburg is an hour's drive or less from Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington. Shiloh is in the middle of frickin' nowhere. (There is no SOMEWHERE in Mississippi!) Saaaayyy, you don't think that has something to do with it, do ya? I don't mean to be city-slicker to you: It's not a bad thing to be far from the maddening crowds, but it does have its way of keeping a place from being all tourist-trappy.

[dstarr]

Ping

[Melas]

It doesn't say what's wrong with the art. What's wrong with the art?

[Arkinsaw]

Gettysburg is an hour's drive or less from Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington. Shiloh is in the middle of frickin' nowhere. (There is no SOMEWHERE in Mississippi!) Saaaayyy, you don't think that has something to do with it, do ya? I don't mean to be city-slicker to you: It's not a bad thing to be far from the maddening crowds, but it does have its way of keeping a place from being all tourist-trappy.

Chickamauga is in town and its nothing like Gettysburg. The battlefield at Franklin, TN has been severely encroached on by housing but at least its not a t-shirt hawking nightmare. Same for Chancellorsville. Cold Harbor and Gaines Mill are near Richmond and are appropriately quiet. I've been to a lot of battlefields beyond Shiloh...and Gettysburg is by far the most touristy and tacky.

The silver duct tape holding the carpet down in places in the visitors center was the best. Loved that.

[Axenolith]

Nice to see you support leftist PC scum. Will you be pulling the D lever come November?

[PAR35]

Shiloh is in the middle of frickin' nowhere. (There is no SOMEWHERE in Mississippi!)

Shiloh isn't in Mississippi - but I could tell from your posts that history from that era isn't your strong suit.

[Capriole]

The SCV is not well served by its leadership. Bowling seems not to understand that neither the city fathers of Gettysburg, Adams County government, nor the National Park Service have any control over what goes on at a private college. Any college will produce a good bit of stupidity in this day and age, and this is a fairly typical example of the determined idiocy of college leftists.

I do have some young acquaintances at Gettysburg College and they are mortified by this madness.

[RebelBanker]

I have never been to Shiloh, but Sharpsburg also fits the description of "quiet, reflective place" most of the time. The Visitors' Center is small and there are no t-shirt shops on the battlefield the way there in G-burg. There aren't even any chain fast food restaurants in town.

[Lee'sGhost]

"What, you want good press for your failed invasion from the people you invaded? Not gonna happen."

Geez. Can we have at least a little historical accuracy here? If you want to talk about invasions you need to start with Manassas where the north began the conflict by invading Virginia. It's not called the War of Northern Aggression for nothing.

[Lee'sGhost]

"Probably no more than were lynched by 'sons' of Union veterans. As I recall, Illinois and Indiana were hotbeds of Klan activity. And study who the lynching victims were during the New York draft riots of 1863."

Please, don't let historical fact get in the way of a good Southern phobic hate rant.

[dangus]

Uh, Yeah... Of course the North invaded the South; Of course Gettysburg was a counter-invasion. But if you think that means that Pennsylvania should've been more *welcoming* to the invaders, geez buddy...

>>It's not called the War of Northern Aggression for nothing.<<

BWAA-HA-HA-HAA!!! "Southern Partisan" is not exactly a journal of record. I always thought that was hysterical. They secede from the union out of FEAR the Union might TRY to do something that Lincoln campaigned AGAINST, launch an attack (what, a Pre-emptive strike?) on a military base located within the confederacy, and then call it "aggression" when the North sends some troops down there to quell the insurrection. Geez, man, you guys are a riot.

[dangus]

My bad... Tennessee of course.

[Non-Sequitur]

It's not called the War of Northern Aggression for nothing.

It also isn't called War of Southern Rebellion for nothing. Maybe Davis should have listened to Toombs before shooting up Sumter.

[dangus]

>>Nice to see you support leftist PC scum. Will you be pulling the D lever come November?<<

Lessee... what did I write?

"OK, well THAT's just plain stoopid. (What the artist plans to do.) That's not an affront to the confederacy, that's an affront to the dignity of the UNION."

But it funny how many Southern "patriots" still identify themselves with the insurrectionists, instead of Americans.