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Democrats want John Wayne Airport renamed after 'I believe in white supremacy' interview resurfaces

Just how do the Democrats handle the fact that the Democratic party was the party of racists, the KKK, and supported slavery all through the Civil War?

The Democratic Party used to represent the conservative South. The abolitionists were the liberals, who were represented by the Republican Party. Today, the conservatives are represented by the Republican Party, whereas the liberals are represented by the Democratic Party.

This is why the KKK went from sitting within the conservative Democratic Party to sitting within the conservative Republican Party. They remain conservative. This transition began in the 1890s. The one thing that is constant in American history is the liberal and conservative mindset. Throughout the twentieth century, up to the Civil Rights Marches, hardcore racists could be found in both parties (hence Byrd, Lyndon B. Johnson, etc.) But during the Civil Rights Marches, conservatives began shifting to the right, along with dick head Clansmen (can't explain Byrd). But racist as he was, Johnson, a Democrat, still championed the Civil Right's Act, the Voter's Rights Act, and his attempts to promote his Great Society. This was during another great transition in identity politics.

Thus, if you are Republican today, you would have most likely been a Democrat in the nineteenth century. It is odd that you can't see this. There's a reason Republicans and conservatives have chosen to preserve Confederate statues. Have you not heard their whining about preserving their culture? Equally odd is how conservatives today promote themselves as the Party of Lincoln, a president who defied the conservative south's demands to preserve slavery. Lincoln was a liberal of the times.

Promoting the label of a Party, while dodging what each represented in history, is a misrepresentation.

Are they going to slit their collective wrists or just shove it under the rug and hope no one brings it up.

They aren't the ones perverting history into a shallow partisan game. You brought it up, I corrected you as to its meaning. How are your wrists, conservative?
 
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We already know that's your alleged problem. Those of us that live in the real world know that no history is being erased. Your argument is a disingenuous one because you're not socially allowed to state your true problem - that the removal of statues glorifying white supremacy makes you feel threatened that your privilege is being undone. In that regard, your concern is valid, of course, but would require you admitting that you have privilege, benefit from it, and want to retain it, which of course you aren't allowed to openly state for obvious reason. Further, admitting as such would be an implicit admission that progressives are right - that conservatives oppose diversity because they are implicitly racist themselves, which of course would be an existential crisis on your end. So here you are whining about the collapse of free speech because people want to remove some dumb statues built in the 30's and 40's.

If that's really your argument, every statue in the country needs to be taken down, as it in one way or another glorifies something that is abhorrent to someone.
 
This is why the KKK went from sitting within the conservative Democratic Party to sitting within the conservative Republican Party.
Really? Other than Strom Thurmond, what segregationist politicians moved from the Democrat party to the GOP?
 
If only someone, anywhere, had tried to peacefully & quietly protest in some sort of way that did not break anything, or destroy things but garnered enough attention to spark a national discussion.

I wonder what the right wing's response to that would be? Has there every been anyone like that?




Wookies > Trekkies

Your pink ***** marches. And we laughed at them.
 
Ah, the liberal mind where, somehow, burning and breaking **** prevents “extrajudicial murder”.

Ah the conservative mind who doesn't know how to read and makes up his own conclusions to project upon others.
 
Ah the conservative mind who doesn't know how to read and makes up his own conclusions to project upon others.

Don’t blame me if your defense of property destruction makes no sense. Is supporting arson or vandalism some sort of necessary element to oppose murder?
 
Don’t blame me if your defense of property destruction makes no sense. Is supporting arson or vandalism some sort of necessary element to oppose murder?

Never said it was. I'm just blaming you for lying with this fake narrative control move of yours. Why lie X? I guess your position is just too weak not to I suppose.
 
So without a statue celebrating Robert E. Lee, the Antebellum and the Civil War are just "removed" from history? I assure you, the histories of Robert Byrd and Robert E. Lee are perfectly preserved.



- Yes, throughout history people were always on the same side, thus not a single war.

- Throughout history, people have removed statues that sought to glorify a shameful past whenever the page was turned from that past. Just seventeen years ago Iraqis throughout the country began tearing statues of Saddam Hussein down. But unlike so many other examples I can provide, confederate statues were overwhelmingly created between the 1890s and the 1950s. They aren't even from that shameful period. These years directly correspond to the Jim Crow era; and this effort was clearly about making a certain statement. Out of this came the Southern attitude that they weren't simply the bad guys as black people in their communities got a daily reminder of their proper place in America.


Clearly, since you pretend to think that history is simply erased over the absence of a statue, you have no idea why you have chosen to protect these statues. There's a reason Southern traitors chose not to fly the American flag.

Considering your ilk tore down a statue of an abolitionist, yes we can confirm these leftists with failed parents need as much education as they can get.
 
If that's really your argument, every statue in the country needs to be taken down, as it in one way or another glorifies something that is abhorrent to someone.

My argument is about white supremacy and privilege. You're the one saying some unrelated bs about "offending people". If you're not going to respond to my actual post, then just don't respond.
 
Never said it was. I'm just blaming you for lying with this fake narrative control move of yours. Why lie X? I guess your position is just too weak not to I suppose.

I mean, you’re the one that posted a senseless meme in defense of property damage. In your world, does opposing property damage mean someone supports murder?
 
My argument is about white supremacy and privilege. You're the one saying some unrelated bs about "offending people". If you're not going to respond to my actual post, then just don't respond.

I didn't say anything about "offending people" You are quoting someone else. If you're not going to respond to my actual post, then just don't respond
 
I mean, you’re the one that posted a senseless meme in defense of property damage. In your world, does opposing property damage mean someone supports murder?

Interesting. I never defended property damage yet you say that lie again. Then you try and twist the narrative a second time in two sentence. Must be a boring day for you to be playing such games.

Don't blame me just because of your whacked perspetive that murder is less important than property damage.
 
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I didn't say anything about "offending people" You are quoting someone else. If you're not going to respond to my actual post, then just don't respond

Cool so you're not interested in discussing the topic at hand. Not surprising considering you've been completely unable to address the actual points being made in this entire thread.
 
Cool so you're not interested in discussing the topic at hand. Not surprising considering you've been completely unable to address the actual points being made in this entire thread.

Deal. Your posts dont seem to add much intelligence to the debate.
 
Interesting. I never defended property damage yet you say that lie again. Then you try and twist the narrative a second time in two sentence. Must be a boring day for you to be playing such games.

Don't blame me just because your whacked perspetive that murder is less important than property damage.

Did you not understand the meme you posted? It's a defense of property damage.
 
I thought since we gave all these losers participation trophy's in sports, they would make better decisions in life than erasing history. I guess we were wrong

Listen, what you really object to is anything that criticizes a white supremacist. "Erasing history" is a bull**** narrative and you just proved it.
 
It might be going too far to rename things just because Wayne, a man of his times, held some bigoted views. It's not like he owned slaves or joined a pro-slavery rebellion against the country.

But if that's what they decide to do as a form of soul-cleansing, it's not inherently evil either: they can decide a historical figure was a dick after all and choose not to commemorate him in that way anymore.
 
One of the most overrated actors in Hollywood history might finally be having his name come off an airport.

John Wayne Airport: Democrats want it renamed after quotes from 1971 interview resurface - CNN



In which he said:




He was an actor, a mirage of masculinity, and a wildly overrated one at that. Nothing more. Surely Orange County can find a more fitting name for their airport.

John Wayne was a complete fraud. Just an angry old drunk who never enlisted, but he pretended he was a hero.

On a personal note, SNA is a great airport. I love the noise abatement take-offs, like a rollercoaster ride, especially in the last few rows of a 757.
 
Yep, ole racist Bob Hope airport in Burbank is next

Actually, it is no longer the Bob Hope airport, removed a few years ago. More for marketing than anything else.
 
Meanwhile same lefties ignore this entirely:

I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side*... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see*Old Glory*trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944[12][20]

The picture of the man who said this is still hanging in the halls of congress and has not been removed nor even mentioned by Pelosi or her ilk. In fact Joe Biden eulogized the man above and Hillary was his protege........bu bu bu TRUMP is a racist.

Funny how you never talk about Sen. Byrd after he denounced the KKK and became the opposite of what he once was. I guess redemption means nothing to you?
 
Did you not understand the meme you posted? It's a defense of property damage.

Nah. It's not. It's mocking those that think murder is nothing compared to property damage. And that hurt your fee fees apparently.
 
I wonder how Germans know about the Third Reich without statues to celebrate that period. Hm...a history book that produces clear documentation and other primary sources?

Did you learn about American history from a statue of Robert E. Lee or did your history teacher give you a text book? No, your problem is that you have no idea why you have chosen to cling to the false notion that history is simply erased.

The concern is not the statues, but what other symbols and references will be next!


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Right, because the best way to advocate for less police action

Is that the only way people have demonstrated for the past 40 years against police brutality? I recall at least one or two football players peacefully demonstrating.

What happened?

Wookies > Trekkies
 
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