calitennis127
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I appreciate the concession, but you follow it up with a meaningless statement that you can't back up. What makes the long-term efforts to get rid of Confederate statues and the rebel flag emblem on numerous Southern state flags "pure contrivance?"
Because the anti-Confederate mental defectives alive today act as though they understand what the world of the 19th century was like and even that they are suffering through certain pains of slavery themselves, either directly as minorities or vicariously as white leftists with empathy. None of them actually lived through slavery or any subsequent period. So what they are all doing is a conjuring up a dystopian image of the American past and pretending that it still exists in very real forms to rage against something they don't know about or understand as a scapegoat for present ills.
You do know that there are plenty of people still alive that lived through Jim Crow laws, right?
And you do know that Confederate statues have nothing to do with those, right?
This "anti-Confederate hysteria," as you call it, isn't really that recent.
Yes, it is. As late as the 1990s (a full century and a quarter out from the North-South war), the Clintons were campaigning with Confederate imagery in Arkansas. Virtually no one in the North or South - for the first 5 generations after the war - regarded the Confederate South to be evil as it is regarded today. In fact, they saw it as the opposite. That distorted image of the South is the result of total ignorance of American history and the North-South war.
And why should it be considered "hysteria?"
Because it is irrational and driven by intense emotions of hatred and rage, with no substantial facts or knowledge to back it up.
What I'd say is new is this recent pro-Confederate hysteria, bolstered by Trump and white nationalists and you.
Lol. What the fuck are you talking about? There is no pro-Confederate hysteria. All Trump has said during his tenure is that the protesters who supported the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville were not all evil (absolutely true) and that he would like to retain the names of military bases named after Confederate generals. How the hell is that "pro-Confederate hysteria"? That is modest common sense and defense of healthy traditions.
It is the left that has a pathological obsession with the Confederacy and attacking it. They are the ones who can't let it go.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but that war ended in 1865.
Right. So why are Democrats so obsessed with going after Confederate monuments a century and a half later instead of worrying about the failures in the cities they run? Don't they have anything better to do, like stopping murder sprees?
You can get your knickers in a twist about US history being reconsidered, and some old white guy monuments going out with the bathwater,
Lol.....and this is a person who considers herself educated. Just "some old white guy monuments," huh? And you wonder why I say white leftists are like ISIS (which may be giving you too much credit). You are utter philistines. Thomas Jefferson was one of the most brilliant men in the history of the world, and here you are calling him "some old white guy." Great. Just don't ever call anyone else a bigot again, you dumbass.
but I am frankly less worried about that then the lives and rights of people living in the here and now.
Lmfao.....you don't give a shit about the lives of black people in the here and now. If you did, you would renounce your affiliation with the Democratic Party for its utter failure in uplifting urban black populations and in looking the other way at a massive crime wave that is resulting in the deaths of hundreds of blacks.
All you actually care about is demonizing a group you dislike (white right-wing Christians) and having political power over them. You don't actually care about blacks at all. And to the extent that you pretend to, any idea you offer as a suggestion to help them is completely dumb and incompetent. There is nothing you say on race issues that isn't completely worthless. Everything you say about race is flat out wrong and stupid.
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