The statue of Lenin is a historical artifact. It was crafted and displayed in communist Czech Republic and brought here after the Velvet Revolution.
Statues don't offend me but they don't hold a special place in my heart either. If people are offended by them then removal is fine with me. Just vote on it?
Stalin’s statue is private property on private land. There is not going to be a vote.
Although some Republicans introduced a bill last year to remove it, apparently forgetting that (very ironically) that private property exists.
One must ask themselves one question come november! Are you an American, or are you a democrat ?
Ah, so if I disagree with Trump, I am no longer American? Honestly, y’all have been saying something like that for decades.
But yeah, totally Dems that are dividing the country.
Same as you saying that silence is violence
Show me where I said that?
Do you disagree with that statement? If so, I'll take it back. By "you" I mean leftists not just you per se
It’s too jingoistic for me. I’m not an absolutist. There are time, when silence about an atrocity is unacceptable, wouldn’t you agree?
Possibly but if say my wife wants to live her life and not opine she should not be deemed a racist. She simply is not political.
Probably. But that can be a contribution to the perpetuation of injustice in more extreme circumstances.
Say your wife lived in the south in the 60s. She’s not racist but has no problem with black people being forced to sit in the back of the bus? There’s numerous more extreme examples.
At some point it tips from silence being convenient to silence contributing To the problem.
But if they just don’t want to opine is not forcing them to opine a violation of their civil rights? Since when is not having an opinion “evil”? Even if she agrees but doesn’t want to get into it, she should be vilified? That’s crazy
So I’m going to use a reductio ad absurdum with this.
-So hey Mr and Mrs Meier. We are going to gather up your Jewish neighbors and put them on trains to drive to camps where we will starve them to the point of death or just murder them en masse. Cool with you?
-Yeah, whatever. I don’t have an opinion.
I’d say the evil part is somewhere before that.