Should Confederate War Memorials/Statues Be Abolished?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by vanzandt, Aug 12, 2017.

  1. More like "white anything/anybody bad".

    :(
     
    #241     Sep 25, 2017
  2. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark


    Two of my heros.Sherman is my all time favorite US General.Every Union General in The Civil War should have fought like Gen.Sherman.Every Confederate statue taken down should be replaced with Gen.Sherman or Grant statues.
     
    #242     Sep 25, 2017
  3. fhl

    fhl

    A month ago these people told us that the confederate monuments were traitorous to america.

    Now the same people are exposed as actual traitors who won't stand for the national anthem.

    Figgers
     
    #243     Sep 25, 2017
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  4. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark


    Biggest liar and racist on ET.He knew exactly what he was doing here.
     
    #244     Sep 25, 2017
  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    #245     Sep 28, 2017
  6. An occupying power always faces a tricky question in attempting to squelch the oppressed population's history and culture.
     
    #246     Sep 28, 2017
  7. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    "If these actions were perpetrated as part of a protest against Confederate heritage and symbols, we as a society have certainly reached a new low."...

    Who dug into this Confederate soldier’s grave in NC?
    http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article175922081.html

    The N.C. Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has suggested the recent desecration of a grave in Bladen County might have been a protest against Confederate heritage, and is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the vandalism.
     
    #247     Sep 28, 2017
  8. Tony Stark

    Tony Stark


    Keeping human beings as slaves and people fighting to keep human beings as slaves was far lower.
     
    #248     Sep 28, 2017
  9. "As Your Doctor, I Am Protesting the Removal of Your Tumor Because I Don’t Want to Erase Your Medical History
    BOB VULFOV

    https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles...use-i-dont-want-to-erase-your-medical-history

    “Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.” — @realDonaldTrump, 8/17/17


    - - -
    Thank you very much for coming in today to discuss the tumor currently growing inside your body. Luckily, we caught this fairly early on, so we have a few treatment options available to us. As you can see on this X-ray, the tumor is currently about the size of a baseball in an all-white baseball league. I could surgically remove it as soon as tomorrow afternoon. However, I will not be doing that.


    I view this tumor as an important symbol of your body’s history and heritage. Removing the tumor would be yet another example of misguided medical correctness in today’s liberal America. I protest this surgery and refuse to whitewash your rich medical history. The tumor must be kept prominently displayed inside your body.

    I understand why you’d want to remove the tumor. By removing it, we would stop the cancer from spreading to other parts of your body and you’d be on your way to recovery. Don’t you think, though, that your body’s fight against cancer should be commemorated in some way? What better way than by leaving the tumor completely intact? Medical Justice Warriors all want to dismantle the very fabric of everyone’s medical history and remove important memorials such as tumors, goiters, and gallstones. I want to celebrate that history and leave a monument to those awful memories inside your body forever.

    As a medical professional, I want patients to celebrate the history and legacy of their illnesses. Tearing down tumors won’t serve that cause. A better solution would be to add more history to this issue. I propose we add a small inscription or plaque on the outside of your body, somewhere near the tumor’s location. The inscription should contextualize and describe the tumor, so that you and anybody else reading it can draw their own conclusions about the tumor. I will not be party to an erasure of history for the mere sake of your health. There are fundamental American freedoms at stake here.

    You might be asking yourself exactly why I’m so passionate about leaving this awful, life-threatening tumor inside your body. Well, if I preside over the tumor’s dismantling, what’s next? Prescribing you medication for your pain? Starting you on a rigorous physical therapy program? Eventually getting you back to feeling healthy? The removal of your tumor is only the beginning of a slippery slope, the end of which will be sanitizing great swaths of your current medical condition. If liberal medicine had its way, no one would ever be able to tell that you were even sick. I refuse to censor your body and its past like that.

    I do not believe the viewpoint that tumors “embody” or “represent” cancer. That is a straw man argument that I will not tolerate. It’s what the loudest voices have decided tumors do. Your medical history may not be perfect, but it represents the journey you have taken to get to this point of being sick and requiring immediate medical attention. That journey is what gets lost in these blind, partisan efforts to remove tumors.

    Whatever your stance on this tumor may be, there is no denying its significance in your medical history. I will not take part in the zealous march to remove the life-threatening tumor from your body. To do so would be to participate in medical revisionism and body censorship."
     
    #249     Oct 8, 2017
  10. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading


    Confusing a tumor with history is the height of literary stupidity.
     
    #250     Oct 8, 2017
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