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Title: Why The Destruction Of The Durham Confederate Monument Is So Despicable
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SHTF Plan
URL Source: http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-ne ... ment-is-so-despicable_08162017
Published: Aug 16, 2017
Author: Daniel Lang
Post Date: 2017-08-16 10:43:39 by Deckard
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Views: 1136
Comments: 9
Ever since the Charleston Church shooting, the Left has been obsessed with purging every element of Confederate iconography in this country. No flag, statue, or bumper sticker has been safe. They want it all gone. The fact that most people who sport the Confederate flag aren’t racist at all, and merely view the flag as a totem of southern pride, matters not. The fact that statues of Confederate soldiers and generals are a part of our history, also doesn’t matter. To people who view everything in life through the lens of race and oppression, these symbols are offensive and must be erased. This irrational rage culminated this week after the protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, which was a rally to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, turned violent and led to the murder of a one counter-protester at the hands of James Fields. In response to that incident, a seething leftist mob gathered around a Confederate statue in Durham, North Carolina on Monday, and tore it down. There are of course, several things that are seriously wrong with what they did. First, we have to think about what this obsession with destroying Confederate monuments will lead to. If we’re going to erase every monument to people who owned slaves or were just racist, where does the buck stop? How long before these people start to demand that we tear down monuments to every founding father who owned slaves (of which there were many)? It seems likely that whoever was leading this event, was probably not actually concerned about the association with this monument to racism. The end goal of these leftists is to tear down our history, and only recognize major American figures for the worst things they did. They want us to hate and demean the people who built this country, and preferably, erase them from the history books. Tearing down Confederate monuments is just the first step. But what is perhaps the most despicable thing about this incident, is their choice to tear down this particular monument. In case you don’t know, this wasn’t a monument to a particular individual. It wasn’t a statue of a historical figure who was responsible for specific misdeeds. Though that wouldn’t excuse the rabid destruction of this monument, at least it would have been something to be angry about. No, this was a war memorial to every Confederate soldier who died in the Civil War. Look at the video again and read the inscription on the monument. It reads “In Memory Of The Boys Who Wore The Gray,” and nothing more. It was flanked by memorials for soldiers who died in World War One, World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam. It’s simply a monument to thousands of young men and boys who fought honorably for what they believed in, as bad as that cause may have been in hindsight, and died under horrific conditions that most of us can’t even begin to imagine. What is wrong with that? What is wrong with simply memorializing the fact that a lot of people were cut down in their prime during America’s most destructive war? It wasn’t a monument to racism, or slavery, or oppression. It was just a token of respect to people who fought and died in an awful war, and it was just torn down by a bunch of sniveling self-righteous infants who’ve probably never had the guts to put their lives on the line for anything in their entire lives.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Culminated? Not hardly. There's a gubernatorial candidate in Georgia who, if elected, is going to dynamite Stone Mountain.
Because it should've been demolished at least 50 years ago?
You should be allowed to put a bullet in anyone's head that is trying to destroy any confederate or American monument. On the spot or later in the middle of the night in their bedroom or wherever they are.
No Willie. But your mom a should have aborted you or crushed your skull after you were born. Because you are a useless human being. You have shit for a brain.
And they have targeted that Robert E. Lee memorial in Brooklyn, N.Y. as well.
They can target it. But the rest of us should stand up and say "No, the statues of Lee stay."
The Lee memorial in Brooklyn is not a statue but a tree, with a plaque attached. While stationed at Fort Hamilton, Lee planted the original tree. The tree now is a descendant of the original tree. The original died. I believe they are going after the plaque, not the tree. The Robert E. Lee memorial in Virginia will pose a problem for a mob protest. The land around it comes under the U.S. Army. I have my doubts that an Occupy demonstration would be tolerated there.
The rest of the country needs to stand up and say "Stop it" to this nonsense of tearing down statues.
It's large scale community organizing for political gain. If it weren't tearing down statues, it would be something else to provoke unrest and division. But yes, tearing down statues memorializing military service is nonsense.
This irrational rage culminated this week after the protest in Charlottesville, Virginia,
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
#3. To: Deckard (#0)
#4. To: Willie Green (#2)
#5. To: Vicomte13, Deckard (#1)
#6. To: nolu chan (#5)
And they have targeted that Robert E. Lee memorial in Brooklyn, N.Y. as well.
#7. To: Vicomte13 (#6)
They can target it. But the rest of us should stand up and say "No, the statues of Lee stay."
#8. To: nolu chan (#7)
#9. To: Vicomte13 (#8)
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