Speyside
9 years ago
What would Archie Bunker do?
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DrafterX
9 years ago
A crowd of protesters in Durham, N.C., tied a cord to a Confederate statue and toppled it to the ground Monday night to loud cheers, a symbolic response to the violence at the rally of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va.

A man used a ladder to attach the cord to the statue -- which officers had coated with cooking spray to make it tougher to climb, WRAL reported.

A toppled Confederate statue lies on the ground on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Durham, N.C. Activists on Monday evening used a rope to pull down the monument outside a Durham courthouse. The Durham protest was in response to a white nationalist rally held in Charlottesville, Va, over the weekend. Authorities say one woman was killed Saturday after one of the white nationalists drove his car into a group of counterprotesters.
“No KKK! No fascists! USA!” many protesters chanted as the statue came down.

The monument, dedicated in 1924, showed a Confederate soldier with “The Confederate States of America” engraved on the front, WNCN added.

The protesters kicked and spat on the toppled statue before carrying it from the old Durham County Courthouse to a police station, according to reports.

The destructive demonstrations were not limited to North Carolina. In Louisville, Kentucky, a statue of a Confederate officer was splattered with orange paint. Police said no suspects have been identified. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced Monday that a panel would review the city's public art and make a list of places linked to bigotry, racism or slavery.

Protesters gathered in the Tennessee Capitol on Monday renewing calls to remove a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate cavalry general and an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Protesters draped a black jacket over the head of the bust while cheering, "Tear it down!"

In Memphis, city attorney Bruce McMullen said Monday that he plans to file a petition to remove a statue of Forrest from a park. The Memphis City Council voted in 2015 to relocate the statue, but the state historical commission blocked the move under the Heritage Protection Act.

In Florida, sounds of a jackhammer echoed in downtown Gainesville as workers tore out the foundation of a Confederate statue known as "Old Joe" in front of the Alachua County Administration Building, The Gainesville Sun reported Monday. The monument is set to return to a chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy -- the same group that built it in 1904.

The racism and deadly violence in Charlottesville is unacceptable but there is a better way to remove these monuments denounced the toppling. "The racism and deadly violence in Charlottesville is unacceptable but there is a better way to remove these monuments," he tweeted


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Justified Vandalism..?? Lock them up..!! 🤐
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victor809
9 years ago
So by burners logic TW is the same as the kkk...
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DrafterX
9 years ago
😱

That Bassard..!! 😠
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Speyside
9 years ago
Should we take down the Washington monument? George was a slave owner. Also, should we remove him from the 1 dollar bill? Or rewrite the history books and call him an evil white supremacist? There might be people offended by him. Maybe we should take down the Vietnam wall war memorial. There are probably neo nazis and white supremacists on it. There might be people offended by it. Maybe we should abandon the constitution. It says all men are created equal. There might be those who disagree and are offended by it. Maybe we should ban the term white people, as there are people offended by it.

This is a stupid azz conversation. This is America. The white supremacists had a permit to march, unless the permit had specifics about what they could not do they were in the right.

I loathe them, I loathe the other group. Quit justifying the other group. Neither one is justifiable.
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bgz
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9 years ago
Well, while we're yanking down odes to slavery, we should probably blow up the Egyptian pyramids... as they also were built on slavery... wait, most of early civilization was built on slavery, maybe we should nuke it all.

Oh wait, there's already a group trying to blow up old pagan sh17 built by slaves...


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opelmanta1900
9 years ago

Should we take down the Washington monument? George was a slave owner. Also, should we remove him from the 1 dollar bill? Or rewrite the history books and call him an evil white supremacist? There might be people offended by him. Maybe we should take down the Vietnam wall war memorial. There are probably neo nazis and white supremacists on it. There might be people offended by it. Maybe we should abandon the constitution. It says all men are created equal. There might be those who disagree and are offended by it. Maybe we should ban the term white people, as there are people offended by it.

This is a stupid azz conversation. This is America. The white supremacists had a permit to march, unless the permit had specifics about what they could not do they were in the right.

I loathe them, I loathe the other group. Quit justifying the other group. Neither one is justifiable.

Speyside wrote:



Did he lead a revolt against the USA and then lose miserably? If so, ya nah, f*ck him, he's gotta come off the bill and the statues gotta come down... we don't worship losers in this country, and every single person who fought for the rebels fought a loser, died a loser...
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MACS
9 years ago

Well, while we're yanking down odes to slavery, we should probably blow up the Egyptian pyramids... as they also were built on slavery... wait, most of early civilization was built on slavery, maybe we should nuke it all.

Oh wait, there's already a group trying to blow up old pagan sh17 built by slaves...

bgz wrote:



Yep... valid points. Those were Jewish slaves, though, so it's cool.
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victor809
9 years ago
Wow.

These answers can only come from stupidity or an active willingness to turn a blind eye to evil.
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SmokeMonkey
9 years ago

Well, while we're yanking down odes to slavery, we should probably blow up the Egyptian pyramids... as they also were built on slavery... wait, most of early civilization was built on slavery, maybe we should nuke it all.

Oh wait, there's already a group trying to blow up old pagan sh17 built by slaves...


bgz wrote:



Everyone know aliens built the pyramids... sheesh!
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gummy jones
9 years ago

If you watched events unfold in Charlottesville and felt affinity for one side or the other...honestly...which side was it?

delta1 wrote:



i think most of us normal americans felt appalled by it all

both sides seemed to be violent extremists bent on intimidation and control via any means necessary. regardless of the groups roots or original intent, that is what they are now.

a dark weekend for our country indeed

as far as im concerned dump them all into the superdome with the westboro folks, a bunch of our political oligarchs, blm/panthers, domestic isis, ms13, etc and let them fight it out. when the winner is crowned, collapse the superdome and set the rubble ablaze.
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opelmanta1900
9 years ago

Well, while we're yanking down odes to slavery, we should probably blow up the Egyptian pyramids... as they also were built on slavery... wait, most of early civilization was built on slavery, maybe we should nuke it all.

Oh wait, there's already a group trying to blow up old pagan sh17 built by slaves...


bgz wrote:


that is some downright dodgy-ass logic there... "Hey, slavery was plumb bad then, no? Right then, let's go undo all the slaves hard work."...
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opelmanta1900
9 years ago


as far as im concerned dump them all into the superdome with the westboro folks, a bunch of our political oligarchs, blm/panthers, domestic isis, ms13, etc and let them fight it out. when the winner is crowned, collapse the superdome and set the rubble ablaze.

gummy jones wrote:


I'll assume you'll be joining us in there? or are we just ignoring the plank in our own eye?
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teedubbya
9 years ago
The westboro folks are a good example. They get permits etc. and use the law to protect their spread of hate. The freedom riders run interference and oppose them.

The freedom riders are not the equivalent of westboro.

I hate the westboro folks.

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MACS
9 years ago

I'll assume you'll be joining us in there? or are we just ignoring the plank in our own eye?

opelmanta1900 wrote:



I dunno... I think most of us are smart enough to stay away from stupid, racist demonstrations instead of showing up and antagonizing obvious idiots.
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teedubbya
9 years ago
The other crap about Washington, pyramids etc is just dumb.
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DrafterX
9 years ago
Washington died from eating dinner in wet clothes... 😟
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opelmanta1900
9 years ago

I dunno... I think most of us are smart enough to stay away from stupid, racist demonstrations instead of showing up and antagonizing obvious idiots.

MACS wrote:


you probably also think most of us are smart enough to know that the way to stop hatred isn't with more hatred... and yet, here's gummy - not at all unike so many others - proposing violence as a means to end violence....
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DrafterX
9 years ago
it is easier... 😟
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teedubbya
9 years ago
Macs I know several of the riders that oppose westboro and have unfortunately been involved in violence or at least accused of it at funerals etc.

I guess they just aren't smart.
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