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And if you notice such moves typically have a lot less traction. Even Southern racists per se are safe. No one is going to tear down the Washington monument and Jefferson memorial. If they ever try it should be resisted by force of necessary.
The Confederacy though has always been a bad cause. All the way back to the 1860s.
And if you notice such moves typically have a lot less traction.
Apparently not. If they can remove confederate monuments by citing racism, they can remove anything by citing racism.
If they ever try it should be resisted by force of necessary.
You sound like a progressive saying it's ok to punch ''Nazis'' for simply speaking. Honestly, this sentence is only funny though, since you are ok with SOME monuments being removed but not others? Is your opinion the end-all be-all? What about people who want confederate monuments? Should they have the right to resist by force? Smells of hypocrisy.
The Confederacy though has always been a bad cause. All the way back to the 1860s.
The Confederacy only existed for a handful of years and existed in spirit since the end of the Civil War. And THEY are the ones who are the most patriotic, ironically. More patriotic than the Yankees, or god forbid the North-Westerners, who want to push policies that are basically treasonous. But nah, southerners have just been the root of all American evil since the Civil War, right?
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Defense of the Confederacy is most definitely not patriotic. Southern patriotism, such as it is, is found inasmuch as conservatism tracks more highly with pride in being American than liberalism does. Southerners are also overrepresented in the military. But then they were in the 1850s too. It didn't stop them from waging war against the United States just a few years later. Literally treason defined constitutionally.
So suffice it to say Southerners have a bit of cognitive dissonance on the issue of patriotism. Secessionist sentiment runs higher there than in the Northeast as well.
Mine is just one opinion of course just as yours is. But rebel apologists can get fucked for all I care if we're being completely frank.
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[–] Joe_McCarthy 5 points -5 points 0 points (+0|-5) ago (edited ago)
And if you notice such moves typically have a lot less traction. Even Southern racists per se are safe. No one is going to tear down the Washington monument and Jefferson memorial. If they ever try it should be resisted by force of necessary.
The Confederacy though has always been a bad cause. All the way back to the 1860s.
[–] 9123805? 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Apparently not. If they can remove confederate monuments by citing racism, they can remove anything by citing racism.
You sound like a progressive saying it's ok to punch ''Nazis'' for simply speaking. Honestly, this sentence is only funny though, since you are ok with SOME monuments being removed but not others? Is your opinion the end-all be-all? What about people who want confederate monuments? Should they have the right to resist by force? Smells of hypocrisy.
The Confederacy only existed for a handful of years and existed in spirit since the end of the Civil War. And THEY are the ones who are the most patriotic, ironically. More patriotic than the Yankees, or god forbid the North-Westerners, who want to push policies that are basically treasonous. But nah, southerners have just been the root of all American evil since the Civil War, right?
rofl.
[–] Joe_McCarthy 4 points -4 points 0 points (+0|-4) ago (edited ago)
Defense of the Confederacy is most definitely not patriotic. Southern patriotism, such as it is, is found inasmuch as conservatism tracks more highly with pride in being American than liberalism does. Southerners are also overrepresented in the military. But then they were in the 1850s too. It didn't stop them from waging war against the United States just a few years later. Literally treason defined constitutionally.
So suffice it to say Southerners have a bit of cognitive dissonance on the issue of patriotism. Secessionist sentiment runs higher there than in the Northeast as well.
Mine is just one opinion of course just as yours is. But rebel apologists can get fucked for all I care if we're being completely frank.