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Posted on 08/26/2017 9:13:55 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Statuary Rape
A curious madness has swept the American left as of late: There is a hatred and a desire to tear down every monument and statue that 'offends' them.
Leaving aside the fact that there is no American right to remain unoffended, what started as a focus on Confederate statues has spread to every manner of marker or memorial.
Let us consider:
If the name of a horse owned by Robert E. Lee is now forbidden, I shudder to think what comes next. Will the girl's names of Georgia and Virginia be stricken from the list of acceptable names, because those States joined the Confederacy? Will Mason canning jars be banned, because they remind someone -- somewhere -- of the Mason-Dixon line? Will flocks of geese, flying south for the winter, be shot out of the sky by crazed leftists, because "South" is now an expletive?
To the left, I say this: The comparison of your behavior to the behavior of MiniTruth (the Ministry of propaganda in the novel '1984',) is an obvious one. Further, to strike the statues that you object to makes you no different than ISIS, who regards any monument not directed towards the furtherance of Islam a "Haram" -- or forbidden -- thing. Finally, by deleting any statue of a historical figure, you diminish the publics' awareness of history -- and in so doing, increase the chance we will repeat that history. Perhaps these are your true goals, but if they are not, then I suggest you stop directing your rage to inanimate objects.
Besides, I would add, not even people of color share your priorities. In a recent poll, it was shown that Black Americans do not want Confederate statues removed.
This all started with the hysterical overreaction to the existence of the Confederate battle flag that occured after it was found that Dylann Root, a shooter who attacked a South Carolina church posed in one picture with such a flag. I wrote an editorial about that topic. I was not yet aware just how far this hatred of inanimate objects would go.
In conclusion, I would like to remind the American left that the urge to destroy inanimate objects that they do not favor will inevitably become an urge to destroy the people they do not like.
And there begins the Fascism and tyranny of which you so routinely, and inaccurately, accuse President Donald Trump.
* ostensibly.
“Now, all of a sudden, they all have to come down? Curious.”
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It’s all part of the chaos that the left wants to occur during the Trump administration———and I’m afraid it won’t stop.
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and just like, nobodies talking about Russia :)
Civil War monuments to the failed Confederacy have always been a moral question.
The USA is about the only place I know that seriously challenges the rule that the victor gets to write the history.
“Cong Yvette Clarke describes herself as a “Caribbean-American.”
Her name is Cong? As in Viet Cong? Ban her! I’m offended by her name.
I could think of far less appropriate trees for our modern left to bark up, than the Confederacy tree. They might just find their own legacy soul in that tree!
Not since 1958, when they were declared United States Veterans.
There’s a statue of John D. Castleman who was a Confederate major and a brigadier general in the Spanish-American war that leftists in Louisville want to tear down. It’s not even a Confederate memorial since he is depicted in plain clothes and s dedicated to his service as first president of the Park service there.
For the left, their anger and the hate that their anger fuels, knows no bounds. I fear we are only at the beginning of what will end so incredibly ugly.
How about Sheila Jackson Lee’s trifecta! Sheila being an Aussie slang for a gal....
BAN HER!
Immoral paperings over by Congress don’t change what heaven stands behind.
Glorify rebellion and whaddya get? Surprise! It isn’t unity.
I’m sorry, I no longer can agree to disagree. It’s in my contract. You will simply have to come over to my way of thinking. Thank you in advance to your prompt attention to this important matter!
Your writing is so good it’s hard to believe that you are a programmer, really excellent article..!
Arrest them, charge them, do not eff around. It is pretty obvious that a fair amount of this comes from a place of wanting to destroy and break laws in order to alleviate self-loathing.
Restore order and address the problems caused by terrible trade deals, a service economy, rent-seeking, etc. Service economies only work if family ties and personal safety nets are severely compromised.
Thank you, kind sir. I hope to retire from computer development sometime in the next decade, decade and a half, and write.
And write.
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Agreed.
Is this an extended pun? A satirical piece? You do know there is a difference between a statue and a statute?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq8gfaFqFpI
BTW, I don’t intend to let this thread become a forum for the Unionists Vs. the Southrons. While I have my own opinions about the issues, I will leave them away from here, inasmuch as any of those threads devolve into acronimity and namecalling.
You freakin’ putz, you.
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