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Authorities removed a Confederate statue in New Orleans early Thursday,
as protesters both for and against the monument carried out tense protests nearby.
There is literally a confederate cemetery with statues 2 miles from the Robert E Lee statues in Cville. There's a confederate solider in front of the courthouse. There's a statue of Lewis and Clark oppressing Sacajawea a few blocks from Lee.
Also, the park where the Robert E Lee statue stands for now, is called Emancipation Park.
They should probably change the name too, because the civil war never happened, nor did slavery.
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Whatever happened to 'muh Russia'? With the flip of a switch, we move on to the next series of BS.
Don't worry, liberals (communists) are using the term whataboutism now. A term coined after a soviet union (communist) propaganda technique. They will never stop relating people whom they disagree with with Russia, despite being the one's who more closely align with Russian ideologies like starvation, murder, and control.
This week I've learned that promoting an ideology that regularly tortures and executes people for holding different political opinions, and is responsible for 100 million deaths via purges, mass starvation, and forced labor, is A-OK as long as you protest ***** when they raise their mentally deficient heads.
This week I've learned that promoting an ideology that regularly tortures and executes people for holding different political opinions, and is responsible for 100 million deaths via purges, mass starvation, and forced labor, is A-OK as long as you protest ***** when they raise their mentally deficient heads.
What a world...
and by ****, you mean simply people who vote republican, right?
listen to this ****:
https://www.facebook.com/myiannopoulos/videos/993138634157365/
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They should probably change the name too, because the civil war never happened, nor did slavery.
Serious question: I'm curious as to whether you actually believe that denial of the plantation era is actually a true goal, or a foreseeable outcome, of the present sociopolitical trend in the US.
On the one hand, there's no arguing against the fact that we are presently living on the periphery of George Orwell's 1984. As it turns out, it's actually We The People who have formed the thought police and demanded the institution of the policies of Ingsoc, rather than Big Brother, but that's proving to be an annoyingly minor point.
On the other hand, the ultra-liberalist ideologies which seem to be driving much of the political discourse in the US at present are actually quite closely aligned with the neo-apologist doctrines which arose in Europe after WWII, leading to both social mores and statutory laws which forbid denial of the holocaust, evocation of **** symbols of ideologies, and so on.
I'm not really clear on whether this small group of people who we're all focused on right now are trying to deny the past, erase it, or use it as a political lever.
A judge in Gwinnett County, Georgia, has resigned after being suspended for drawing comparisons between the removal of Confederate monuments and the actions of the Islamic State.
Judge Jim Hinkle wrote on Facebook Tuesday: “The nut cases tearing down monuments are equivalent to ISIS destroying history.”
The post was written the same day as protesters in Durham, North Carolina, illegally tore down a Confederate statue.
A feminist author is advising spouses of Trump supporters to file for divorce.
Writing at Harper’s Bazaar, Jennifer Wright says she wants transgender individuals in the military, but when it comes to being married to a Trump supporter, she advises ditching that progressive inner longing for inclusivity, diversity, and tolerance.
“I’m going to save you three years of therapy where you and your partner try to ‘agree to disagree,’” she writes. “If your partner is a Trump supporter and you are not, just divorce them.”
Wright sizes up what she views as a problem for non-Trump supporting spouses: “What if you find yourself… not wanting to kiss someone who believes that it is cool for the President to think women should be grabbed by the *****?”
As an aside, Wright fails to mention – even as a point of reference – how married couples fared during the Clinton presidency when the Monica Lewinsky scandal took place in the White House, or during the rape allegations against Clinton, or when his wife Hillary Clinton allegedly silenced those women – yet all the while she insisted during her failed presidential campaign that women should be heard if they accuse men of sexual assault.
Glossing over the Clinton years, Wright continues with yet another issue she believes should not be tolerated by a non-Trump-supporting spouse:
You do not need to try to make it work with someone who thinks of people as “illegals.” Just divorce them … This may not always be possible. Some people may not have the financial or practical means available to get a divorce, but if you do have those means? DIVORCE THEM.
“Supporting Trump at this point does not indicate a difference of opinions,” Wright counsels. “It indicates a difference of values.”
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said his Fairfax County home was vandalized this week.
He believes it was in response to the heated rhetoric stemming from the violence in Charlottesville this past weekend.
Carson posted on Facebook that his home and a neighbor’s were vandalized and hateful rhetoric had been written about President Donald Trump.
“Our house was toilet-papered and then they had painted ‘F Trump’ on it, as well,” Carson told NBC Washington.
Cuomo calls for Confederate general names to be taken off Brooklyn streets POSTED 4:49 PM, AUGUST 16, 2017, BY ALIZA CHASAN, UPDATED AT 10:18PM, AUGUST 16, 2017
FORT HAMILTON, Brooklyn — The U.S. Army already shot down a request from New York's representatives in Congress to change the names of Brooklyn streets bearing the names of Confederate general, but now Governor Andrew Cuomo has joined the call for change.
He and other government officials believe the existence of General Lee Avenue and Stonewall Jackson Drive in Fort Hamilton, the city's only active military post, enforce notions of white supremacy. The issue has become especially charged since protests turned deadly after a group of white nationalists gathered in Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
"The events of Charlottesville and the tactics of white supremacists are a poison in our national discourse, and every effort must be made to combat them," Gov Cuomo said in a letter to the Army.
But the Army says the street names don't promote Confederate ideologies. Army officials, in shooting down the initial request for change, said the street names are honoring the men as individuals.
"After over a century, any effort to rename memorializations on Fort Hamilton would be controversial and divisive," an Army spokeswoman said. "This is contrary to the Nation's original intent in naming those streets, which was the spirit of reconciliation."
It's unclear if the Army's stance on this will change. The deadly clash in Charlottesville has led to an accelerated removal of Confederate statues nationwide.
That change is already happening in New York. Two plaques honoring Gen. Gee were removed from the grounds of a Brooklyn church Wednesday. Lee apparently planted a tree there while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort Hamilton in New York in the 1840s. Two decades later, he became a commander of the Confederate Army.
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College features prominent Americans. Gov. Cuomo says busts of Confederate generals will be removed. (Rolando Pujol/PIX11)
New York City is also getting in on the action. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city plans to conduct a 90-day review of all symbols of hate on city property.
Removals are pending in the Bronx, where Lee and Jackson will be removed from the CUNY Hall of Great Americans at Bronx Community College, Gov. Cuomo said.
"There are many great Americans, many of them New Yorkers worthy of a spot in this great hall," Gov. Cuomo said. "These two confederates are not among them."
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