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    "For all their hollow espousal of tolerance, it is inconceivable to them to believe that the Confederate memorials represent in actuality the pinnacle of tolerance. They are the embodiment of a respectful reconciliation between old enemies, a graceful nod to the notion that people can fight and die on opposite sides, but in the end, come together as one to build a collective future. A nation that has the capacity to build memorials to those who disagreed violently with its fundamental ideals without rancour surely is a nation replete with tolerance."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Corazón View Post
    "For all their hollow espousal of tolerance, it is inconceivable to them to believe that the Confederate memorials represent in actuality the pinnacle of tolerance. They are the embodiment of a respectful reconciliation between old enemies, a graceful nod to the notion that people can fight and die on opposite sides, but in the end, come together as one to build a collective future. A nation that has the capacity to build memorials to those who disagreed violently with its fundamental ideals without rancour surely is a nation replete with tolerance."
    Bingo. The fact the vets were welcomed back in society and reconcilliation was the theme from those very soldiers on both sides tells the tale

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post
    I don't condone the vandalism .. but Columbus was quite the dick.

    Time to get rid of Columbus Day .. a battle that's been taking place for a lot of years.

    I take the time every Columbus Day to educate my grandchildren on why there should never be a Columbus Day .. just as I did with my children.
    You must hate MLK then, he was anti homosexual, tear down his street sign, and any likeness anywhere.

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    Banish MLk for being anti queer. I guess MLK was all about civil rights for blacks but not homos


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    Quote Originally Posted by Corazón View Post
    "For all their hollow espousal of tolerance, it is inconceivable to them to believe that the Confederate memorials represent in actuality the pinnacle of tolerance. They are the embodiment of a respectful reconciliation between old enemies, a graceful nod to the notion that people can fight and die on opposite sides, but in the end, come together as one to build a collective future. A nation that has the capacity to build memorials to those who disagreed violently with its fundamental ideals without rancour surely is a nation replete with tolerance."
    lol

    10,000 kinds of horseshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    lol

    10,000 kinds of horseshit.
    Yeah, the people who wave the Confederate flag are so tolerant

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.was...ite-supremacy/

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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    monument in Baltimore to Christopher Columbus — believed to be the first one erected to the Italian explorer in America — was vandalized.

    Baltimore Police said they were looking into the incident, but couldn’t say when the damage took place.

    A video posted to YouTube on Monday by a user named “Popular Resistance” shows a man striking the base of the monument near Herring Run Park repeatedly with a sledgehammer. Another person holds a sign that reads: “Racism, tear it down.” Another sign is taped to the monument reading: “The future is racial and economic justice.”

    Police are searching for information about the men in the video, as well as whoever filmed it.

    “We want to inform people it is a crime to destroy property. And if the person is identified who is responsible for this, they will be prosecuted,” said police spokesman T.J. Smith.

    The narrator of the video, who says his name is Ty, calls Christopher Columbus a “genocidal terrorist.”

    The monument, which features a two-story-tall obelisk atop a base, was still standing on Monday morning, but there was a gaping hole in the front and chunks of stone were scattered in the grass. The signs seen in the video were lying on the ground.

    The lettering on the front of the monument — “Sacred to the memory of Chris. Columbus, Octob. XII, MDCCVIIIC” — was rendered unreadable.

    The vandalism comes nearly one week after city officials swiftly removed four controversial monuments: a statue of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the Confederate Women’s monument, the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument and a statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who authored the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery.

    This is happening everywhere,” said Kevin Caira, president of the Sons of Italy’s Commission for Social Justice. Over the weekend, a Columbus statue in Boston was painted red and a protest was held at a statue in Detroit, he said.

    In 2015, someone splashed red paint and planted a hatchet on the head of a bronze statue of Columbus in Detroit, according to the Detroit News.

    Caira said there’s been an uptick in attention to Columbus monuments since the events in Charlottesville, as people rethink the value of statues in public places.

    Caira defended Columbus as a great explorer who may not be guilty of all of the sins ascribed to him. He also suggested it’s unfair to measure a 15th-century figure by 21st-century morals and standards.

    “He’s been the target of people claiming he caused all of the ills of the world, that he caused genocide and slavery,” Caira said. “It’s just not true.”
    http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/mar...821-story.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by chink View Post
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    No one cares about what Derowshitz says. His legal opinions are junk and he's sympathetic to right-wing loonies. He is also probably a solicitor of underage prostitution.
    In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Covfefe View Post
    Yeah, the people who wave the Confederate flag are so tolerant

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.was...ite-supremacy/
    Confederate memorials represent tolerance? Priceless!

    Who wrote that bullshit? David Duke?

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    lol

    10,000 kinds of horseshit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    lol

    10,000 kinds of horseshit.
    You would appear to be the ordure expert.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amadeus View Post
    No one cares about what Derowshitz says. His legal opinions are junk and he's sympathetic to right-wing loonies. He is also probably a solicitor of underage prostitution.
    Speak for yourself sonny, he is a legal genius.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Corazón View Post
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    It was the Jews, not the Nazis, that exhibited tolerance. That the perpetrators exhibit tolerance by erecting their traitor hero's statues is horseshit.

    The desperate grasping at straws of the Nazi lovers is noted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Corazón View Post
    You would appear to be the ordure expert.
    The expertise is gained by observing your posts.

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