Millennials Finally End the Civil War
15th August 2017
As every living American with European ancestors knows, the Confederacy is our fault. We did that. We’re responsible for that. It’s our solemn duty to apologize at every turn for looking like people who died 150 years ago. If you don’t think it’s your fault just because you weren’t even born yet, you’re a racist.
Down the Memory Hole.
August 15th, 2017 at 13:05
I don’t know how opposing Confederate monuments and battle flags morphed into opposing racism.
Whether they were racists or not–they were, and so were the vast majority of Northerners–they were, demonstrably, traitors. They took up arms against the United States, which is treason, pure and simple.
People have every right to identify with treasonous vermin if they wish; it’s a free country. But monuments to traitors have no place, or should have no place, in the public domain. I’m glad the statue is gone, and “sic semper” all such monuments and memorials.
August 15th, 2017 at 13:55
P.S.: The Civil War won’t end until all the cretins and knuckle-draggers who idolize the Noble Lost Cause give it up.
Like the Zen story about the old monk berated by his novice for having carried a pretty young girl across the street back in the village: “I put that girl down hours ago. It’s you that have been carrying her ever since.”
August 16th, 2017 at 04:00
And not even then, until the cretins and knuckle-draggers who roam the earth seeking something by which to be offended find another hobby.
August 16th, 2017 at 10:47
In its place they are reopening WW11, complete with Nazis and Commies
August 16th, 2017 at 13:53
I saw the Nazis; they were wearing their signature emblems.
Where were the Communists? Where were the placards of Lenin or Stalin? Where was the “Down with Capitalism!” banners?
I seem to have missed them. Perhaps you could point them out?
August 16th, 2017 at 15:13
So somebody who isn’t wearing a ‘signature emblem’ isn’t a Nazi? Sorry, dude — if it attacks like a Nazi, screams like a Nazi, objects to free speech like a Nazi, and tries to beat people up like a Nazi, it’s a Nazi.
August 16th, 2017 at 15:48
Are you off your meds again? I never claimed that those who don’t wear Nazi regalia aren’t Nazis.
(But their penchant for sporting same makes it easy to identify them. So convenient.)
It was the remark about “Nazis and Communies” I was referencing.
I know it’s challenging for you, but try to keep up…
August 17th, 2017 at 08:15
First of all, “traitors”. The Confederate states did NOT try to overthrow the United States. They tried to secede, to leave. They believed – and there was no reason for them not to believe – that having joined the Union freely, they could just as freely leave it. Lincoln sent in troops and the war was on. (Shelby Foote had a great quote when a Union soldier asked a captured Confederate why he was fighting, the captive replied, “Because you’re here.”)
California is making noises about seceding from what they perceive as Trump’s Nazi Hinterland. Nobody is screaming about them being traitors.
Second, even a dull leftist like you, Elganned, could not possibly help but notice that the Antifas and others gathered in opposition to the “white” rally are socialists and communists. What else could they possibly do to help convince you?!?
Finally, by LAW (passed in 1958), Confederate soldiers are legally American Veterans and their graves and monuments are given the same status as the Union soldiers. It’s not a case of “whatever they feel like doing”, but a case of following the law. We are, after all, a nation of laws and not of mob rule.
Having said all that, I must add that nothing justifies either Nazis or communists in this country. Both idiologies are counter to democracy. What happened in Charlottesville is a poorly supervised gathering of assholes. As much as I despise both sides, their right to gather and to express their opinions – peacefully – is and should be protected as a precious right. My observation is that when people get a chance to see what these folks really stand for, they tend to lose support.