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Stone Mountain Monument

DamnYankee said:
What is the removal of confederate faces going to accomplish? How does this help? Will it change anything? And when are leftists going to demand the tearing down of the Jefferson Memorial?

Abrams calls for removal of Confederate faces off Stone Mountain | Political Insider blog
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IMO the purpose is to whitewash history.

Oh, there will be other excuses based on social justice ideals, but the bottom line is the same throughout history...get rid of symbols of the past to make way for symbols of the present.

Don't worry. Future generations will eventually get around to removing whatever new symbols are put up today. :shrug:
 
Washington owned slaves. We need to blow up the Washington Monument and rename that city, and the state, too. We'll need to eliminate any reference to any politician anywhere who supported Jim Crow. That would mean that a whole lot of democrat's names will be purged from our history. Oh well. If we're gonna be nuts, at least we can be consistent about it. Besides, if we put some pumps, temperature controls, and aerators in the Reflecting Pool, maybe we can stock it with trout. Once the Washington Monument is gone, there isn't anything to reflect anyway.
 
TheGoverness said:
What we should do is place these momuments in museums. That is the best middle-ground in this situation, IMHO.
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Stone Mountain would not fit. :)



A tremendous amount of work and art went into creating the relief carving on Stone Mountain... I saw it while it was in progress. To efface it would be as grave of a crime as to efface Washington and Jefferson from Mount Rushmore because they were slave owners.
 
Captain Adverse said:
IMO the purpose is to whitewash history.

Oh, there will be other excuses based on social justice ideals, but the bottom line is the same throughout history...get rid of symbols of the past to make way for symbols of the present.

Don't worry. Future generations will eventually get around to removing whatever new symbols are put up today. :shrug:
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I have explained this before so the question is why do you keep posting this crap. No northerner will let southerners forget the civil war, aint gonna happen. Most want to put the things in some sort of museum to traitors and losers.
 
I find Civil War history cool... People get all butthurt about it only because they told to be butthurt about it...

I find it no different to a situation like... I'm eating at Chick Fillet and someone comes up to me and says... " Why don't you care about gay marriage? You know the owner of Chick fillet doesn't want gay marriage???"

Shut-up... I just eating my damn chicken... go away... I don't care, I like their chicken...chill out, it's just a restaurant... not the representation of Gay oppression...
 
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Goshin said:
Stone Mountain would not fit. :)



A tremendous amount of work and art went into creating the relief carving on Stone Mountain... I saw it while it was in progress. To efface it would be as grave of a crime as to efface Washington and Jefferson from Mount Rushmore because they were slave owners.
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a few sticks of dynamite is all you need.
 
humbolt said:
Washington owned slaves. We need to blow up the Washington Monument and rename that city, and the state, too. We'll need to eliminate any reference to any politician anywhere who supported Jim Crow. That would mean that a whole lot of democrat's names will be purged from our history. Oh well. If we're gonna be nuts, at least we can be consistent about it. Besides, if we put some pumps, temperature controls, and aerators in the Reflecting Pool, maybe we can stock it with trout. Once the Washington Monument is gone, there isn't anything to reflect anyway.
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Washington helped build America. The confederates waged war against America. Thats the difference.
 
katzgar said:
Washington helped build America. The confederates waged war against America. Thats the difference.
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You can't fit a human hair in between the differences here. Confederates were Americans too. They fought and died in our revolution for the very same values George Washington expressed and fought for.
 
Goshin said:
Well, make Rushmore your next target then. It is little different.
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which confederates are on Mt. Rushmore? Washington? Roosevelt? Jefferson? Lincoln? which one is a confederate?
 
humbolt said:
You can't fit a human hair in between the differences here. Confederates were Americans too. They fought and died in our revolution for the very same values George Washington expressed and fought for.
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are you seriously trying to say you dont understand the difference between waging war on america and building/creating America? The difference is obviously huge.
 
katzgar said:
are you seriously trying to say you dont understand the difference between waging war on america and building/creating America? The difference is obviously huge.
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No, I"m seriously suggesting you have no idea what the implications of erasing our history might be, and that your argument is so poor that it lacks any consistency at all.
 
humbolt said:
No, I"m seriously suggesting you have no idea what the implications of erasing our history might be, and that your argument is so poor that it lacks any consistency at all.
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We are not erasing history. We are moving it to the museum. Public statues are a position of honor. Traitors do not belong there
 
humbolt said:
No, I"m seriously suggesting you have no idea what the implications of erasing our history might be, and that your argument is so poor that it lacks any consistency at all.
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no one is advocating erasing southern history, like I said earlier northerners are happy to point out what losers the confederates were. and no your suggestion isnt serious.
 
vegas giants said:
We are not erasing history. We are moving it to the museum. Public statues are a position of honor. Traitors do not belong there
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Uh huh. So the crumpled monument in NC is going to be moved to a museum. You're going to have to do a whole lot better than mouth nice things when the actions of those you support demonstrates otherwise. I personally don't find Robert Byrd to be honorable, but I'm not running around claiming all those roads in WVA have their names changed, for example, and I'm surely not running around the country side tearing those signs down. At some point in our history, people thought these statues reflected something significant and worthy. Times change, and perhaps they don't belong in some of the places they occupy anymore, but that's hardly the issue here anyway. Times haven't changed so much in the past year that such things have become offensive since them. Don't pretend they have.
 
Captain Adverse said:
IMO the purpose is to whitewash history.

Oh, there will be other excuses based on social justice ideals, but the bottom line is the same throughout history...get rid of symbols of the past to make way for symbols of the present.

Don't worry. Future generations will eventually get around to removing whatever new symbols are put up today. :shrug:
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Rewriting history was practiced by most societies in one way or an other. The ones most proficient at it were the great dictatorships of the last century.
 
humbolt said:
You can't fit a human hair in between the differences here. Confederates were Americans too. They fought and died in our revolution for the very same values George Washington expressed and fought for.
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how did you graduate from high school, never being able to pass history
 
humbolt said:
Uh huh. So the crumpled monument in NC is going to be moved to a museum. You're going to have to do a whole lot better than mouth nice things when the actions of those you support demonstrates otherwise. I personally don't find Robert Byrd to be honorable, but I'm not running around claiming all those roads in WVA have their names changed, for example, and I'm surely not running around the country side tearing those signs down. At some point in our history, people thought these statues reflected something significant and worthy. Times change, and perhaps they don't belong in some of the places they occupy anymore, but that's hardly the issue here anyway. Times haven't changed so much in the past year that such things have become offensive since them. Don't pretend they have.
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thats true, they have been offensive a long long time.
 
Goshin said:
Stone Mountain would not fit. :)



A tremendous amount of work and art went into creating the relief carving on Stone Mountain... I saw it while it was in progress. To efface it would be as grave of a crime as to efface Washington and Jefferson from Mount Rushmore because they were slave owners.
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Dont think thats not coming. I read yesterday where there is a movement that has begun in Wisconsin to remove the name "Madison" from cities and schools.
 
joG said:
Rewriting history was practiced by most societies in one way or an other. The ones most proficient at it were the great dictatorships of the last century.
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why on earth do you keep posting lies?
 
DamnYankee said:
What is the removal of confederate faces going to accomplish? How does this help? Will it change anything? And when are leftists going to demand the tearing down of the Jefferson Memorial?

Abrams calls for removal of Confederate faces off Stone Mountain | Political Insider blog
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Rest assured, leftist fascists will not rest until the very last vestiges of Americanism are utterly destroyed, and they hold dictatorial power over every square inch of this country. The question is, are Americans going to allow that to happen?
 
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