The Maelstrom of Violence

[David Horn]

(08-18-2017, 07:04 AM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(08-16-2017, 02:26 PM)noway2 Wrote:

(08-16-2017, 02:11 PM)David Horn Wrote: If your argument rests on these "historical monuments" then you're already on shaky ground.  These were, for the most part, the products of unreconstructed Confederates and their kin, and intended to make the point that the Southern white man was still king in the South.  Most were erected in the early 20th century, not immediately after the ACW.  Their historical import is dubious, unless it's intended to remind everyone of segregation and, oh yeah, lynchings.

I'm not entirely certain what you mean by on shaky ground.  If you're trying to claim that these blacks and their white snowflake lackeys that are committing vandalism have some sort of moral high ground for their actions, you would be grossly mistaken.  They are, however, running the risk of getting put down, hard, as other people are taking great offense to the desecration. The biggest thing preventing it is that the unlike this crowd, some people have jobs and obligations.

I can't speak for my entire race, but this black man agrees with you.  I oppose the destruction of monuments to the Confederacy, not because I support it, or slavery or even the racist institutions of the past.  Rather, I oppose their destruction out of the fear that it will not stop with them.  Already these imbeciles have moved from Lee and Stonewall Jackson to Lincoln, and they will move on to Jefferson and Washington too.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...ghborhood/

These people think that they can have a revolution, one in which the destruction of everything from before that revolution is required.  However, they have no economic theory to replace it with, no social theory to back up that revolution and as such the end result must be tyranny--and that is assuming that tyranny would arise as a natural consequence.

Nonsense.  There is little to no historical value in these monuments, and I live in Monuments Central.  If you look around the South, there are no monuments (or very few) to any other war or its veterans.  It's all about the Lost Cause.  Sorry, but I have no sympathy on this issue.  The argument that Washington and Jefferson are next (and, presumably, Madison and Monroe as well) just doesn't hold up.