LV426 (01-16-2020)
if they could do it, why cant we?
Union soldiers (left) and confederate soldiers (right) shake hands at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the battle, 1913
Oh, what details am I missing?
They fought for slavery, lost, and have whined about it ever since.
They wave that flag as a way of saying "sure, our bullshit garbage beliefs were defeated, but we're keeping the spirit of those bullshit garbage beliefs alive. Nyah!"
Fuck those people.
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
No he wasn't! He was so dumb and racist, he thought the Caribbean was India. He never set foot in what would become America.
Amerigo Vespuci was the first European to do so, hence why it's called "North America" and not "North Columbus".
And before him, the Vikings set foot in North America centuries before.
Fuck, even the Chinese and Japanese and Pacific Islanders made expeditions as far as the Aleutian Islands and the Pacific coast before Europeans did.
Stop.
You're not an American, are you?
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
LOL!
You've never served in combat or a battle, and I think you're lying about visiting historic battlegrounds sites.
Besides, you don't need a Confederate flag or a monument to a loser to remember who won the war.
If you think monuments and flags are so important, why not argue to just keep the Union monuments and Union flags? Why do Confederates need participation trophies? Are they so fragile?
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
Partially true, very difficult to appraise the standards of one era in history by those of another, but that doesn't mean we have to accept the existing version of history if it obviously contradicts the actual facts
I can understand removing the Columbus statue, it offends a lot of people, Chris didn't discover the Americas, he kinda ran into them, and what resulted afterwards negatively reshaped the lives of generations to follow.
Confederate flag should go, initially it was just a banner flag, but since the days of Jim Crow it took on a newer meaning and has been closely associated with racism, there just isn't any need for it, says little about the Civil War
So your next question would be what is acceptable, to which I would respond there is no absolute, no predetermined judgement, it often comes down to a case by case examination
LV426 (01-16-2020)
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