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I’ll just say this out front as a disclaimer: I live in Texas, but I was born and raised a dirty Yankee. It’s entirely possible that there are fundamental aspects to Southern culture that I don’t fully understand since I wasn’t brought up here.
That said, I can’t imagine why there would ever be statues of Confederate figures still up in The Year of Our Lord 2017. The city of Dallas recently removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from a park that bears his name, and the resulting backlash was full of more knee-jerk ignorance and hypocrisy than I’ve seen in quite some time. Let’s see what the people have to say about it!
Snowflakes,want to change history
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It’s not the Dallas that is changing history. Glorifying a traitor to America as if he were a war hero would be changing history!
What’s happened to standing up and defending and preserving history. The statues represent a time in this country of war, independence, rights yo freedom, where some received their Sir names from the slave owners yes.
We have surpassed that time in this country. We should all stand together not apart. That dream that MLK talked about was coming together were all are equal, standing together as brothers and sisters.
Sad, sad, state of affairs.
Can’t link the profile picture, but this is a white lady invoking Martin Luther King to defend a man who fought to keep slaves.
It’s a travesty. Ask people why it wasn’t offensive until recently! It’s merely a political tool by the Dallas mayor to garner more votes!
Of course, the mayor of Dallas thinks this massively unpopular endeavor will somehow gain him votes (for an election that is two years away).
Now tomorrow I expect the City of Dallas to be cured of all racist beings and Love, Love Love. I think it is pure insanity. 81+ years and now it bothers some folks whom were not even alive then. . How a statue is going to make the races get along is beyond me.I suppose a statue of Hitler in it’s place would be acceptable. Tomorrow it will be Obama and MLK statues under fire.
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This may looking like a run-of-the-mill Godwinning, but Bob actually brings up a pretty good point. I’m German, so what if I wanted to put up a statue of Hitler in honor of my German culture? Would Bob have my back?
I also think that this wouldn’t even be happening if the media didn’t put BLM, AntiFa and the statues in the spotlight. America has never been more divided in my lifetime, and much of that division is caused by the media for advertising money and ratings.
Oh yes, it’s anti-fascists who put the spotlight on Confederate statues, not the Nazis who rallied around one and ended up killing a lady.
And now I have heartburn. I’d be willing to bet that, on any other issue, many of these people would be stereotypical flag-fellating, military-worshipping über-patriots, and yet they remain fixated on a traitor who oversaw the killing of American soldiers. Maybe I’m better off not understanding.
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