Removing Confederate generals statues
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You gotta love when toting the party line loops so far back on itself that the "Real Americans" are lining up to defend and celebrate those that went to war with the US. Amazing.
The sane hypocrisy happens with spending, govt power, etc though so it's not a surprise...
You gotta love when toting the party line loops so far back on itself that the "Real Americans" are lining up to defend and celebrate those that went to war with the US. Amazing.
The sane hypocrisy happens with spending, govt power, etc though so it's not a surprise...
Nobody on the right has wanted every vestige of the Confederacy wiped off the face of the Earth. Not until the liberals and power-mad Democrats told people like you to be offended.
Fauci was nobody and nobody cared about you one way or the other and the only reason you like the incompetent old quack is because he made faces standing behind Trump not because he knew his ass from a hole in the ground.
And I agree with Mike Pence it's time to give up the idea that the election is ever going to be made fair. That train has left the station.
WSS
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You gotta love when toting the party line loops so far back on itself that the "Real Americans" are lining up to defend and celebrate those that went to war with the US. Amazing.
The sane hypocrisy happens with spending, govt power, etc though so it's not a surprise...
Just recently look at Comey, Fauci & Pence. They were all great when they peddled the right narrative. As soon as they diverged, they were all scumbags
Just recently look at Comey, Fauci & Pence. They were all great when they peddled the right narrative. As soon as they diverged, they were all scumbags
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You gotta love when toting the party line loops so far back on itself that the "Real Americans" are lining up to defend and celebrate those that went to war with the US. Amazing.
The sane hypocrisy happens with spending, govt power, etc though so it's not a surprise...
Nobody on the right has wanted every vestige of the Confederacy wiped off the face of the Earth. Not until the liberals and power-mad Democrats told people like you to be offended.
Fauci was nobody and nobody cared about you one way or the other and the only reason you like the incompetent old quack is because he made faces standing behind Trump not because he knew his ass from a hole in the ground.
And I agree with Mike Pence it's time to give up the idea that the election is ever going to be made fair. That train has left the station.
WSS
Nobody on the right has wanted every vestige of the Confederacy wiped off the face of the Earth. Not until the liberals and power-mad Democrats told people like you to be offended.
Fauci was nobody and nobody cared about you one way or the other and the only reason you like the incompetent old quack is because he made faces standing behind Trump not because he knew his ass from a hole in the ground.
And I agree with Mike Pence it's time to give up the idea that the election is ever going to be made fair. That train has left the station.
WSS
Where did I say we should wipe every trace of the confederacy of the map? Please, show me.
Go ahead, I'll wait
You're so confident I know it must be there somewhere.
Go ahead
I mean just take a break from you falling for the big election lie like a sucker and just find where I want to completely wipe the confederacy from this earth.
Surely you're not being a hyperbolic little typical Steve, right? Surely I said that and it'll be plain to see. I definitely didn't clearly reference museums, books, etc.
So go ahead ....
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You gotta love when toting the party line loops so far back on itself that the "Real Americans" are lining up to defend and celebrate those that went to war with the US. Amazing.
The sane hypocrisy happens with spending, govt power, etc though so it's not a surprise...
Just recently look at Comey, Fauci & Pence. They were all great when they peddled the right narrative. As soon as they diverged, they were all scumbags
Just recently look at Comey, Fauci & Pence. They were all great when they peddled the right narrative. As soon as they diverged, they were all scumbags
You gotta love the politicization of scientific and medical issues... Great way to hold the entire country back
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Nobody on the right has wanted every vestige of the Confederacy wiped off the face of the Earth. Not until the liberals and power-mad Democrats told people like you to be offended.
Fauci was nobody and nobody cared about you one way or the other and the only reason you like the incompetent old quack is because he made faces standing behind Trump not because he knew his ass from a hole in the ground.
And I agree with Mike Pence it's time to give up the idea that the election is ever going to be made fair. That train has left the station.
WSS
Where did I say we should wipe every trace of the confederacy of the map? Please, show me.
Go ahead, I'll wait
You're so confident I know it must be there somewhere.
Go ahead
I mean just take a break from you falling for the big election lie like a sucker and just find where I want to completely wipe the confederacy from this earth.
Surely you're not being a hyperbolic little typical Steve, right? Surely I said that and it'll be plain to see. I definitely didn't clearly reference museums, books, etc.
So go ahead ....
Where did I say we should wipe every trace of the confederacy of the map? Please, show me.
Go ahead, I'll wait
You're so confident I know it must be there somewhere.
Go ahead
I mean just take a break from you falling for the big election lie like a sucker and just find where I want to completely wipe the confederacy from this earth.
Surely you're not being a hyperbolic little typical Steve, right? Surely I said that and it'll be plain to see. I definitely didn't clearly reference museums, books, etc.
So go ahead ....
Horseshit . Are you ok with the Confederate flag and all Confederate memorials being removed? All the statues of Confederate generals? Changing the names of forts that were named after Confederate Warriors?
And one more time you didn't give a s*** about it until the Liberals told you to.
WSS
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Where did I say we should wipe every trace of the confederacy of the map? Please, show me.
Go ahead, I'll wait
You're so confident I know it must be there somewhere.
Go ahead
I mean just take a break from you falling for the big election lie like a sucker and just find where I want to completely wipe the confederacy from this earth.
Surely you're not being a hyperbolic little typical Steve, right? Surely I said that and it'll be plain to see. I definitely didn't clearly reference museums, books, etc.
So go ahead ....
Horseshit . Are you ok with the Confederate flag and all Confederate memorials being removed? All the statues of Confederate generals? Changing the names of forts that were named after Confederate Warriors?
And one more time you didn't give a s*** about it until the Liberals told you to.
WSS
Horseshit . Are you ok with the Confederate flag and all Confederate memorials being removed? All the statues of Confederate generals? Changing the names of forts that were named after Confederate Warriors?
And one more time you didn't give a s*** about it until the Liberals told you to.
WSS
I don't live in the South. I don't see monuments to the losing side. I don't see a country that went to war with us being celebrated. I'm also not black and don't have black ancestors. But I have the mental capacity to understand why someone may have a problem with something that doesn't directly affect me (I know, a crazy concept for many posters on here). This would not be an issue I would be aware of otherwise until it was brought up.
I have no problem removing statues and celebrations of traitors. Especially when you learn the true history of a lot of these confederate celebrations (to go against the civil rights movement). Is it my top issue? No, it isn't. But this also seems pretty cut and dry. Seeing conservatives make arguments to keep these monuments to people that literally went to war with America, and then have those same people talk about how Real America they are, is hilarious.
Museums, books, etc. still exist. These statues should be in museums with honest, accurate recounts of what actually happened. They should be getting erected decades later by the daughters of the confederacy to scare black people only so conservatives decades after that can fight to keep them up and act like they've been there since the war ended.
Removing a public statue celebrating individuals that fought the united states for the ability to continue to enslave another race and putting that statue in a museum (while continuing to have numerous books and media options talking about the civil war) is not erasing any history. It isn't rewriting any history. There is already an attempt to rewrite history in regards to these monuments, school names, etc. The vast majority were erected 50 years after the civil war during Jim Crow. Another spike occurred almost 100 years after the war during the civil rights movement. The intentions couldn't have been more obvious...
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Horseshit . Are you ok with the Confederate flag and all Confederate memorials being removed? All the statues of Confederate generals? Changing the names of forts that were named after Confederate Warriors?
And one more time you didn't give a s*** about it until the Liberals told you to.
WSS
I don't live in the South. I don't see monuments to the losing side. I don't see a country that went to war with us being celebrated. I'm also not black and don't have black ancestors. But I have the mental capacity to understand why someone may have a problem with something that doesn't directly affect me (I know, a crazy concept for many posters on here). This would not be an issue I would be aware of otherwise until it was brought up.
I have no problem removing statues and celebrations of traitors. Especially when you learn the true history of a lot of these confederate celebrations (to go against the civil rights movement). Is it my top issue? No, it isn't. But this also seems pretty cut and dry. Seeing conservatives make arguments to keep these monuments to people that literally went to war with America, and then have those same people talk about how Real America they are, is hilarious.
Museums, books, etc. still exist. These statues should be in museums with honest, accurate recounts of what actually happened. They should be getting erected decades later by the daughters of the confederacy to scare black people only so conservatives decades after that can fight to keep them up and act like they've been there since the war ended.
Removing a public statue celebrating individuals that fought the united states for the ability to continue to enslave another race and putting that statue in a museum (while continuing to have numerous books and media options talking about the civil war) is not erasing any history. It isn't rewriting any history. There is already an attempt to rewrite history in regards to these monuments, school names, etc. The vast majority were erected 50 years after the civil war during Jim Crow. Another spike occurred almost 100 years after the war during the civil rights movement. The intentions couldn't have been more obvious...
I don't live in the South. I don't see monuments to the losing side. I don't see a country that went to war with us being celebrated. I'm also not black and don't have black ancestors. But I have the mental capacity to understand why someone may have a problem with something that doesn't directly affect me (I know, a crazy concept for many posters on here). This would not be an issue I would be aware of otherwise until it was brought up.
I have no problem removing statues and celebrations of traitors. Especially when you learn the true history of a lot of these confederate celebrations (to go against the civil rights movement). Is it my top issue? No, it isn't. But this also seems pretty cut and dry. Seeing conservatives make arguments to keep these monuments to people that literally went to war with America, and then have those same people talk about how Real America they are, is hilarious.
Museums, books, etc. still exist. These statues should be in museums with honest, accurate recounts of what actually happened. They should be getting erected decades later by the daughters of the confederacy to scare black people only so conservatives decades after that can fight to keep them up and act like they've been there since the war ended.
Removing a public statue celebrating individuals that fought the united states for the ability to continue to enslave another race and putting that statue in a museum (while continuing to have numerous books and media options talking about the civil war) is not erasing any history. It isn't rewriting any history. There is already an attempt to rewrite history in regards to these monuments, school names, etc. The vast majority were erected 50 years after the civil war during Jim Crow. Another spike occurred almost 100 years after the war during the civil rights movement. The intentions couldn't have been more obvious...
First and foremost that's a long-winded way of saying that I was correct. Second who cares about Jim Crow? (Which I don't think you or your candidate Joe Biden even understand) These men weren't fighting because they hated Negroes, nor was the Union Army fighting because they loved them, they were fighting because they loved their families their neighbors and their homes. Simply that.
[And thousands upon thousands of men women and children raped murdered their homes and crops burned and their possessions looted by the war criminals from the north who you apparently support now.]
WSS
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I don't live in the South. I don't see monuments to the losing side. I don't see a country that went to war with us being celebrated. I'm also not black and don't have black ancestors. But I have the mental capacity to understand why someone may have a problem with something that doesn't directly affect me (I know, a crazy concept for many posters on here). This would not be an issue I would be aware of otherwise until it was brought up.
I have no problem removing statues and celebrations of traitors. Especially when you learn the true history of a lot of these confederate celebrations (to go against the civil rights movement). Is it my top issue? No, it isn't. But this also seems pretty cut and dry. Seeing conservatives make arguments to keep these monuments to people that literally went to war with America, and then have those same people talk about how Real America they are, is hilarious.
Museums, books, etc. still exist. These statues should be in museums with honest, accurate recounts of what actually happened. They should be getting erected decades later by the daughters of the confederacy to scare black people only so conservatives decades after that can fight to keep them up and act like they've been there since the war ended.
Removing a public statue celebrating individuals that fought the united states for the ability to continue to enslave another race and putting that statue in a museum (while continuing to have numerous books and media options talking about the civil war) is not erasing any history. It isn't rewriting any history. There is already an attempt to rewrite history in regards to these monuments, school names, etc. The vast majority were erected 50 years after the civil war during Jim Crow. Another spike occurred almost 100 years after the war during the civil rights movement. The intentions couldn't have been more obvious...
First and foremost that's a long-winded way of saying that I was correct. Second who cares about Jim Crow? (Which I don't think you or your candidate Joe Biden even understand) These men weren't fighting because they hated Negroes, nor was the Union Army fighting because they loved them, they were fighting because they loved their families their neighbors and their homes. Simply that.
[And thousands upon thousands of men women and children raped murdered their homes and crops burned and their possessions looted by the war criminals from the north who you apparently support now.]
WSS
First and foremost that's a long-winded way of saying that I was correct. Second who cares about Jim Crow? (Which I don't think you or your candidate Joe Biden even understand) These men weren't fighting because they hated Negroes, nor was the Union Army fighting because they loved them, they were fighting because they loved their families their neighbors and their homes. Simply that.
[And thousands upon thousands of men women and children raped murdered their homes and crops burned and their possessions looted by the war criminals from the north who you apparently support now.]
WSS
And with that last typical Steve attempt to put words in my mouth I'm going to end this back and forth.
You're pulling the party line to the point you're supporting people that were, by definition, anti American.
We're not going to get anywhere with this. You'll zig and zag and do you're typical nonsense.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
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First and foremost that's a long-winded way of saying that I was correct. Second who cares about Jim Crow? (Which I don't think you or your candidate Joe Biden even understand) These men weren't fighting because they hated Negroes, nor was the Union Army fighting because they loved them, they were fighting because they loved their families their neighbors and their homes. Simply that.
[And thousands upon thousands of men women and children raped murdered their homes and crops burned and their possessions looted by the war criminals from the north who you apparently support now.]
WSS
And with that last typical Steve attempt to put words in my mouth I'm going to end this back and forth.
You're pulling the party line to the point you're supporting people that were, by definition, anti American.
We're not going to get anywhere with this. You'll zig and zag and do you're typical nonsense.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
And with that last typical Steve attempt to put words in my mouth I'm going to end this back and forth.
You're pulling the party line to the point you're supporting people that were, by definition, anti American.
We're not going to get anywhere with this. You'll zig and zag and do you're typical nonsense.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
And of course thanks for the typical Woody non-response.
WSS
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And with that last typical Steve attempt to put words in my mouth I'm going to end this back and forth.
You're pulling the party line to the point you're supporting people that were, by definition, anti American.
We're not going to get anywhere with this. You'll zig and zag and do you're typical nonsense.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
And of course thanks for the typical Woody non-response.
WSS
And of course thanks for the typical Woody non-response.
WSS
yep.
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offence of treason against the United States
You must have missed it the first time.
The sentence you cited seems to be a misnomer. It only implies treason.
No one was ever tried for the offense of treason.
My understaning is that in order to be pardoned for a crime, one would of had to be first found guilty of it, no?
Whether Lee or Underwood realized it, there were also some serious constitutional and legal obstacles in the path of a conviction—or even a trial—for treason. For one thing, the Constitution’s definition of treason is really a very narrow one, and much would dangle on the exact meaning of “levying war.”
Abraham Lincoln had insisted from the beginning that since war is a condition that exists only between two sovereign nations, and since the Confederacy was in his view only an insurrection, no actual war legally existed between the North and the South.Cal owned you on this one.
Nothing ever changes.
The sentence you cited seems to be a misnomer. It only implies treason.
No one was ever tried for the offense of treason.
My understaning is that in order to be pardoned for a crime, one would of had to be first found guilty of it, no?
Whether Lee or Underwood realized it, there were also some serious constitutional and legal obstacles in the path of a conviction—or even a trial—for treason. For one thing, the Constitution’s definition of treason is really a very narrow one, and much would dangle on the exact meaning of “levying war.”
Abraham Lincoln had insisted from the beginning that since war is a condition that exists only between two sovereign nations, and since the Confederacy was in his view only an insurrection, no actual war legally existed between the North and the South.Cal owned you on this one.
Nothing ever changes.
During his presidency Lincoln pardon 17 people of what again? Oh Yeah. treason. Who commits treason again? Traitors. You guys keep defending your traitors. It's both hilarious and sad.
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The sentence you cited seems to be a misnomer. It only implies treason.
No one was ever tried for the offense of treason.
My understaning is that in order to be pardoned for a crime, one would of had to be first found guilty of it, no?
Whether Lee or Underwood realized it, there were also some serious constitutional and legal obstacles in the path of a conviction—or even a trial—for treason. For one thing, the Constitution’s definition of treason is really a very narrow one, and much would dangle on the exact meaning of “levying war.”
Abraham Lincoln had insisted from the beginning that since war is a condition that exists only between two sovereign nations, and since the Confederacy was in his view only an insurrection, no actual war legally existed between the North and the South.Cal owned you on this one.
Nothing ever changes.
During his presidency Lincoln pardon 17 people of what again? Oh Yeah. treason. Who commits treason again? Traitors. You guys keep defending your traitors. It's both hilarious and sad.
During his presidency Lincoln pardon 17 people of what again? Oh Yeah. treason. Who commits treason again? Traitors. You guys keep defending your traitors. It's both hilarious and sad.
The confederate army may have been called "traitors" but they were NOT TRYING TO OVERTHROW OR UNDERMINE THE GOV, they just wanted to leave it.
The traitors? were those union soldiers who deserted. See, desertion is turning on your own side, and undermining your own side's ability to survive.
But the north survived anyways.But the number is not "17": it is 373 pardons during Lincoln's two terms.
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I’ll chime in on this. My take on this is like a lot of things: a work in progress. Art and history are a couple things l stand up for. Good art, bad art, l support its existence even if it ain’t my kinda art. The fondly remembered parts of history and the seedy parts, l think it’s good to study it all, maybe even especially the seedy parts.
So l admittedly had some initial discomfort over this statue removal business because in a sense it’s where art and history collide. I lamented the loss of future opportunities. I had this corny image of a father and young son walking through a park, and there’s a statue of Robert E. Lee.
”Who’s that daddy?”
”That’s Robert E. Lee, a confederate general during the Civil War. We kicked his ass…”
And then your into the whole thing. The Civil War, why it happened, how it went down, what a bayonet is, etc. It’s potentially one of those moments that kickstarts the whole American History baton handoff deal.
And l know, museums and books and documentaries exist, but not everyone’s big on those. Parks and city squares in the mix widens the potential.
With that said l had a conversation with someone last year who relayed a point that Woody made above where most of those monuments glorifying the confederacy were erected during reconstruction when the south not only rose again, but also changed the narrative of the Civil War. We don’t often think of art and history being used as ominous reminders of where certain folks stand in society, but in many cases that’s what was happening. Metal and stone expressions communicating the same thing as the white hood and noose.
So l get it. And ultimately, it’s the individual communities who should have the most say so on these sorts of things. It’s not my place to tell other communities what to do with their monuments. I’m content to simply understand their reasoning.
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I’ll chime in on this. My take on this is like a lot of things: a work in progress. Art and history are a couple things l stand up for. Good art, bad art, l support its existence even if it ain’t my kinda art. The fondly remembered parts of history and the seedy parts, l think it’s good to study it all, maybe even especially the seedy parts.
So l admittedly had some initial discomfort over this statue removal business because in a sense it’s where art and history collide. I lamented the loss of future opportunities. I had this corny image of a father and young son walking through a park, and there’s a statue of Robert E. Lee.
”Who’s that daddy?”
”That’s Robert E. Lee, a confederate general during the Civil War. We kicked his ass…”
And then your into the whole thing. The Civil War, why it happened, how it went down, what a bayonet is, etc. It’s potentially one of those moments that kickstarts the whole American History baton handoff deal.
And l know, museums and books and documentaries exist, but not everyone’s big on those. Parks and city squares in the mix widens the potential.
With that said l had a conversation with someone last year who relayed a point that Woody made above where most of those monuments glorifying the confederacy were erected during reconstruction when the south not only rose again, but also changed the narrative of the Civil War. We don’t often think of art and history being used as ominous reminders of where certain folks stand in society, but in many cases that’s what was happening. Metal and stone expressions communicating the same thing as the white hood and noose.
So l get it. And ultimately, it’s the individual communities who should have the most say so on these sorts of things. It’s not my place to tell other communities what to do with their monuments. I’m content to simply understand their reasoning.
I’ll chime in on this. My take on this is like a lot of things: a work in progress. Art and history are a couple things l stand up for. Good art, bad art, l support its existence even if it ain’t my kinda art. The fondly remembered parts of history and the seedy parts, l think it’s good to study it all, maybe even especially the seedy parts.
So l admittedly had some initial discomfort over this statue removal business because in a sense it’s where art and history collide. I lamented the loss of future opportunities. I had this corny image of a father and young son walking through a park, and there’s a statue of Robert E. Lee.
”Who’s that daddy?”
”That’s Robert E. Lee, a confederate general during the Civil War. We kicked his ass…”
And then your into the whole thing. The Civil War, why it happened, how it went down, what a bayonet is, etc. It’s potentially one of those moments that kickstarts the whole American History baton handoff deal.
And l know, museums and books and documentaries exist, but not everyone’s big on those. Parks and city squares in the mix widens the potential.
With that said l had a conversation with someone last year who relayed a point that Woody made above where most of those monuments glorifying the confederacy were erected during reconstruction when the south not only rose again, but also changed the narrative of the Civil War. We don’t often think of art and history being used as ominous reminders of where certain folks stand in society, but in many cases that’s what was happening. Metal and stone expressions communicating the same thing as the white hood and noose.
So l get it. And ultimately, it’s the individual communities who should have the most say so on these sorts of things. It’s not my place to tell other communities what to do with their monuments. I’m content to simply understand their reasoning.
I had this corny image of a father and young son walking through a park, and there’s a statue of George Floyd.
”Who’s that daddy?”
"He's a criminal who had a crime record as long as your leg...he was high on fentanyl and spending counterfeit money when he was kill while being arrested, he also at one point held a gun to a pregnant woman's belly while his friends robbed her home. The Democrats loved him for his great behavior."
Also they praise groups such as Antifa and BLM that burned, looted and killed and worshiped a woman who killed police officers."
"But at least they took down those statues that stood for hundreds of years because they hurt their feeling!"
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I’ll chime in on this. My take on this is like a lot of things: a work in progress. Art and history are a couple things l stand up for. Good art, bad art, l support its existence even if it ain’t my kinda art. The fondly remembered parts of history and the seedy parts, l think it’s good to study it all, maybe even especially the seedy parts.
So l admittedly had some initial discomfort over this statue removal business because in a sense it’s where art and history collide. I lamented the loss of future opportunities. I had this corny image of a father and young son walking through a park, and there’s a statue of Robert E. Lee.
”Who’s that daddy?”
”That’s Robert E. Lee, a confederate general during the Civil War. We kicked his ass…”
And then your into the whole thing. The Civil War, why it happened, how it went down, what a bayonet is, etc. It’s potentially one of those moments that kickstarts the whole American History baton handoff deal.
And l know, museums and books and documentaries exist, but not everyone’s big on those. Parks and city squares in the mix widens the potential.
With that said l had a conversation with someone last year who relayed a point that Woody made above where most of those monuments glorifying the confederacy were erected during reconstruction when the south not only rose again, but also changed the narrative of the Civil War. We don’t often think of art and history being used as ominous reminders of where certain folks stand in society, but in many cases that’s what was happening. Metal and stone expressions communicating the same thing as the white hood and noose.
So l get it. And ultimately, it’s the individual communities who should have the most say so on these sorts of things. It’s not my place to tell other communities what to do with their monuments. I’m content to simply understand their reasoning.
I had this corny image of a father and young son walking through a park, and there’s a statue of George Floyd.
”Who’s that daddy?”
"He's a criminal who had a crime record as long as your leg...he was high on fentanyl and spending counterfeit money when he was kill while being arrested, he also at one point held a gun to a pregnant woman's belly while his friends robbed her home. The Democrats loved him for his great behavior."
Also they praise groups such as Antifa and BLM that burned, looted and killed and worshiped a woman who killed police officers."
"But at least they took down those statues that stood for hundreds of years because they hurt their feeling!"
I had this corny image of a father and young son walking through a park, and there’s a statue of George Floyd.
”Who’s that daddy?”
"He's a criminal who had a crime record as long as your leg...he was high on fentanyl and spending counterfeit money when he was kill while being arrested, he also at one point held a gun to a pregnant woman's belly while his friends robbed her home. The Democrats loved him for his great behavior."
Also they praise groups such as Antifa and BLM that burned, looted and killed and worshiped a woman who killed police officers."
"But at least they took down those statues that stood for hundreds of years because they hurt their feeling!"
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I’ll chime in on this. My take on this is like a lot of things: a work in progress. Art and history are a couple things l stand up for. Good art, bad art, l support its existence even if it ain’t my kinda art. The fondly remembered parts of history and the seedy parts, l think it’s good to study it all, maybe even especially the seedy parts.
So l admittedly had some initial discomfort over this statue removal business because in a sense it’s where art and history collide. I lamented the loss of future opportunities. I had this corny image of a father and young son walking through a park, and there’s a statue of Robert E. Lee.
”Who’s that daddy?”
”That’s Robert E. Lee, a confederate general during the Civil War. We kicked his ass…”
And then your into the whole thing. The Civil War, why it happened, how it went down, what a bayonet is, etc. It’s potentially one of those moments that kickstarts the whole American History baton handoff deal.
And l know, museums and books and documentaries exist, but not everyone’s big on those. Parks and city squares in the mix widens the potential.
With that said l had a conversation with someone last year who relayed a point that Woody made above where most of those monuments glorifying the confederacy were erected during reconstruction when the south not only rose again, but also changed the narrative of the Civil War. We don’t often think of art and history being used as ominous reminders of where certain folks stand in society, but in many cases that’s what was happening. Metal and stone expressions communicating the same thing as the white hood and noose.
So l get it. And ultimately, it’s the individual communities who should have the most say so on these sorts of things. It’s not my place to tell other communities what to do with their monuments. I’m content to simply understand their reasoning.
I had this corny image of a father and young son walking through a park, and there’s a statue of George Floyd.
”Who’s that daddy?”
"He's a criminal who had a crime record as long as your leg...he was high on fentanyl and spending counterfeit money when he was kill while being arrested, he also at one point held a gun to a pregnant woman's belly while his friends robbed her home. The Democrats loved him for his great behavior."
Also they praise groups such as Antifa and BLM that burned, looted and killed and worshiped a woman who killed police officers."
"But at least they took down those statues that stood for hundreds of years because they hurt their feeling!"
"But at least they took down those statues that stood for hundreds of years because they hurt their feeling!"
Our Civil War ended in 1865, so those statues aren’t quite hundreds of years old. You may be thinking of General Lee statues from the Dukes of Hazard, a popular tv show in the 1700s. Oh, and that General Lee was a car.
In all seriousness, people gotta find a way to make peace with things out of their control. Otherwise they just manufacture misery for themselves.
And l forgot my sports analogy. Imagine if they erected a statue of John Elway in downtown Cleveland 30 years after “the Drive”. Do you think that would be well received? Of course it wouldn’t. What would be the point of that other than an awful reminder of a gut wrenching experience 30 years ago? If you’re a Broncos fan, sure, it’s cool. But if you’re a Browns fan, at the very best its placement is in poor taste. That’s basically much of what went on 100 plus years ago when those statues were put up. So like l said, l get it, but a part of me still laments the loss of future conversations between parents and kids about the Duke Boys and their smokin’ cousin running moonshine in the 1700s.
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"But at least they took down those statues that stood for hundreds of years because they hurt their feeling!"
Our Civil War ended in 1865, so those statues aren’t quite hundreds of years old. You may be thinking of General Lee statues from the Dukes of Hazard, a popular tv show in the 1700s. Oh, and that General Lee was a car.
In all seriousness, people gotta find a way to make peace with things out of their control. Otherwise they just manufacture misery for themselves.
And l forgot my sports analogy. Imagine if they erected a statue of John Elway in downtown Cleveland 30 years after “the Drive”. Do you think that would be well received? Of course it wouldn’t. What would be the point of that other than an awful reminder of a gut wrenching experience 30 years ago? If you’re a Broncos fan, sure, it’s cool. But if you’re a Browns fan, at the very best its placement is in poor taste. That’s basically much of what went on 100 plus years ago when those statues were put up. So like l said, l get it, but a part of me still laments the loss of future conversations between parents and kids about the Duke Boys and their smokin’ cousin running moonshine in the 1700s.
Our Civil War ended in 1865, so those statues aren’t quite hundreds of years old. You may be thinking of General Lee statues from the Dukes of Hazard, a popular tv show in the 1700s. Oh, and that General Lee was a car.
In all seriousness, people gotta find a way to make peace with things out of their control. Otherwise they just manufacture misery for themselves.
And l forgot my sports analogy. Imagine if they erected a statue of John Elway in downtown Cleveland 30 years after “the Drive”. Do you think that would be well received? Of course it wouldn’t. What would be the point of that other than an awful reminder of a gut wrenching experience 30 years ago? If you’re a Broncos fan, sure, it’s cool. But if you’re a Browns fan, at the very best its placement is in poor taste. That’s basically much of what went on 100 plus years ago when those statues were put up. So like l said, l get it, but a part of me still laments the loss of future conversations between parents and kids about the Duke Boys and their smokin’ cousin running moonshine in the 1700s.
Your analogy is off it would more like Cleveland put up a statue of Bernie Kozar and 50 years later someone has hurt feelings for some odd reason...for this to fit your scenario the Robert E Lee statue would have been standing in the North somewhere.
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I’ll chime in on this. My take on this is like a lot of things: a work in progress. Art and history are a couple things l stand up for. Good art, bad art, l support its existence even if it ain’t my kinda art. The fondly remembered parts of history and the seedy parts, l think it’s good to study it all, maybe even especially the seedy parts.
So l admittedly had some initial discomfort over this statue removal business because in a sense it’s where art and history collide. I lamented the loss of future opportunities. I had this corny image of a father and young son walking through a park, and there’s a statue of Robert E. Lee.
”Who’s that daddy?”
”That’s Robert E. Lee, a confederate general during the Civil War. We kicked his ass…”
And then your into the whole thing. The Civil War, why it happened, how it went down, what a bayonet is, etc. It’s potentially one of those moments that kickstarts the whole American History baton handoff deal.
And l know, museums and books and documentaries exist, but not everyone’s big on those. Parks and city squares in the mix widens the potential.
With that said l had a conversation with someone last year who relayed a point that Woody made above where most of those monuments glorifying the confederacy were erected during reconstruction when the south not only rose again, but also changed the narrative of the Civil War. We don’t often think of art and history being used as ominous reminders of where certain folks stand in society, but in many cases that’s what was happening. Metal and stone expressions communicating the same thing as the white hood and noose.
So l get it. And ultimately, it’s the individual communities who should have the most say so on these sorts of things. It’s not my place to tell other communities what to do with their monuments. I’m content to simply understand their reasoning.
That’s Robert E. Lee, a confederate general during the Civil War. We kicked his ass…”
Not quite. As far as casualties go anyway:: 618,222 men died in the Civil War, 360,222 from the North and 258,000 from the South — by far the greatest toll of any war in American history.
"You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970. -
Our Civil War ended in 1865, so those statues aren’t quite hundreds of years old. You may be thinking of General Lee statues from the Dukes of Hazard, a popular tv show in the 1700s. Oh, and that General Lee was a car.
In all seriousness, people gotta find a way to make peace with things out of their control. Otherwise they just manufacture misery for themselves.
And l forgot my sports analogy. Imagine if they erected a statue of John Elway in downtown Cleveland 30 years after “the Drive”. Do you think that would be well received? Of course it wouldn’t. What would be the point of that other than an awful reminder of a gut wrenching experience 30 years ago? If you’re a Broncos fan, sure, it’s cool. But if you’re a Browns fan, at the very best its placement is in poor taste. That’s basically much of what went on 100 plus years ago when those statues were put up. So like l said, l get it, but a part of me still laments the loss of future conversations between parents and kids about the Duke Boys and their smokin’ cousin running moonshine in the 1700s.
Your analogy is off it would more like Cleveland put up a statue of Bernie Kozar and 50 years later someone has hurt feelings for some odd reason...for this to fit your scenario the Robert E Lee statue would have been standing in the North somewhere.
Your analogy is off it would more like Cleveland put up a statue of Bernie Kozar and 50 years later someone has hurt feelings for some odd reason...for this to fit your scenario the Robert E Lee statue would have been standing in the North somewhere.
Not if you think about it from the perspective of who “won” the reconstruction period, or rather who benefitted most from it. Few people would argue it was a shit show with the KKK, lynchings, Jim Crow laws and segregation, and it lasted a long time. Something like 10 times longer than the Civil War itself. I suppose from the standpoint of the analogy Cleveland would have had to have created a similar scene where life in Colorado was a shit show for close to 50 years, but stuff like that doesn’t happen in sports. Think of it purely from a standpoint of having a statue of someone you detest in your backyard and you’ll get the gist.
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That’s Robert E. Lee, a confederate general during the Civil War. We kicked his ass…”
Not quite. As far as casualties go anyway:: 618,222 men died in the Civil War, 360,222 from the North and 258,000 from the South — by far the greatest toll of any war in American history.
Not quite. As far as casualties go anyway:: 618,222 men died in the Civil War, 360,222 from the North and 258,000 from the South — by far the greatest toll of any war in American history.
I suppose if you got those statistics in your hip pocket and that’s the angle you wanna go at it, that’s great. That’s the thing though. For any statue that survives this purge, those conversations are going to go how they go depending on who’s having it. Christopher Columbus could be anything from a great and brave Italian explorer who discovered the new world, to the guy who introduced genocide to North America.
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