Confederate statues and memorials

Many were put up in the 50s as a statement against the growing civil rights movement

Same thing happened in the early 1900s as the klan reemerged
 
Why weren't they so offensive in the 50s or 60s? Or, any other time?

You mean back in the 1950s when black folks had to ride on the back of the bus?

Okay, here's why they are offensive. Because they celebrate men who fought to keep a class of Americans in slavery.
Oh, I understand that. But, why now? The Charlottesville one was there since the beginning of last century.
 
Why weren't they so offensive in the 50s or 60s? Or, any other time?
Because they are looking for anything to bitch about now Trump is President.
Notice that they were not bitching about when their Chocolate Messiah was President for 8 years.
 
Why weren't they so offensive in the 50s or 60s? Or, any other time?

Because we've evolved as a society.

50 or 60 years ago, or any other time, it was perfectly acceptable for blacks, women and Jews to be second-class citizens. Today we don't think that.

FTR I think this political correctness often goes too far. But that's your answer.
 
Because we've evolved as a society.

50 or 60 years ago, or any other time, it was perfectly acceptable for blacks, women and Jews to be second-class citizens. Today we don't think that.

FTR I think this political correctness often goes too far. But that's your answer.
I think it has, too.
 
Because they are looking for anything to bitch about now Trump is President.
Notice that they were not bitching about when their Chocolate Messiah was President for 8 years.

Sad to believe that there are people who still think like this , and is a big reason why so many want the statues gone.
It is history , but for many generations that suffered it is a everyday painful reminder.



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Oh, I understand that. But, why now? The Charlottesville one was there since the beginning of last century.

and most of that century, they had to ride on the back of the bus.

So the real question is what are sensibilities now. sensibilities change, and clearly what was acceptable in the past, not so much now.
Given the protests involved, and the consequences seen from this weekend, maybe the People aren't agreed on this topic.
 
Why weren't they so offensive in the 50s or 60s? Or, any other time?

You mean back in the 1950s when black folks had to ride on the back of the bus?

Okay, here's why they are offensive. Because they celebrate men who fought to keep a class of Americans in slavery.



Yeah! Just like WWII was fought to free the Jews and create a Jewish homeland by yanking the area out from under the feet of the Palestinians to assuage feelings of guilt, Joe Cocksucker and swallower!


Great job! (snicker)

HOLY fuck are you EVER ignorant about the Civil War........
 
"Confederate statues and memorials"

…belong in museums and other such venues along with similar relics from the Nazi Era and apartheid South Africa.

They do not belong in public places, sanctioned by jurisdictions representing all the people; their removal from public places is warranted and justified.

And their removal is perfectly Constitutional – in no manner violating free speech or free expression (see Walker v. Sons of Confederate Veterans (2015)).
 
USA Today reported in May that in North Carolina alone, 35 Confederate monuments have been built since the year 2000. It’s hard to argue that those monuments are about history and heritage.

The paper also points out that Kentucky is saturated with Confederate memorials — far more than, say, Union memorials — even though Kentuckians fought for the Union by a 2-1 margin.

A recent Phoenix New Times report
found that half of the six Confederate memorials in Arizona were built in 1999 or later, the most recent in 2010. The oldest of the six was erected nearly 80 years after the Civil War, during which Arizona wasn’t yet a state.





Opinion | We should treat Confederate monuments the way Moscow and Budapest have treated communist statues
 

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