06-27-2020, 08:31 PM
Gee, this thread suddenly got quiet. didn't it? Maybe the defense of monuments to Confederate leaders is beginning to look about as pointless as the defense of Commies and fascists.
Just think of what a statue of Jefferson Davis, let alone Nathan Bedford Forrest, means to some black child in the South... yes, these are the heroes. These people fought to keep your fourth-great-grandparents (the black ones, at least) in bondage.
Just think of what a statue of Jefferson Davis, let alone Nathan Bedford Forrest, means to some black child in the South... yes, these are the heroes. These people fought to keep your fourth-great-grandparents (the black ones, at least) in bondage.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.