Trump 'will not even consider' renaming Army bases named for Confederate leaders

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Tony Stark, Jun 10, 2020.

  1. UsualName

    UsualName

    You cannot be loyal to the United States of America if you support the old confederacy.

    As long as those flags, homages and statues stand in public places it is a standard for traitors to rally around.
     
    #21     Jun 11, 2020
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  2. Tsing Tao

    Tsing Tao

    Give it a rest, ya sap.
     
    #22     Jun 11, 2020
  3. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    I'm told there are a bunch of pamphlets and such for the "lost cause" in the collection of my family in Louisiana.

    I recall seeing a poster for the "daughters of the south" (not confederacy but maybe a branch) which worked to rewrite history. Explained by a very woke looking fellow here.

     
    #23     Jun 11, 2020
  4. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Attendees must be disgusted. Imagine attending "Bin Laden military school" as an American cadet?
     
    #24     Jun 11, 2020
  5. Wallet

    Wallet

    Didn’t know the confederacy still existed, my history book says Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox?

    I guess some people still hold on to ideas from the past, regardless if they actually exist today.
     
    #25     Jun 11, 2020
  6. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    Just as the US eugenics movement inspired the Nazi's eugenics resulting in millions of deaths, the spectacular rewritten history propoganda of the South must have had some reach there also but the same thing found across cultures and continents.

    The past can be rewritten but rarely entirely, mind you the Judaeo/Christian/Islamic past is pretty close with everything before 597 BC being basically just made up or combined fragments of various tribes and other cultures. Plenty of loose threads though, underpainting showing through perhaps.

    Don't have an especially interesting past? Everyone says you are a dumb cult and picking on you? No problem, belief creates reality right?

    Norman Vincent Peale was the Trump family minister. Well while Donny never been original in his life, just copies, steals and takes credit, can't argue he does not stick to a few things.

    "Change your thoughts and you change your world."

    Norman Vincent Peale

    Or everyone else's thoughts.
     
    #26     Jun 11, 2020
  7. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    glad you agree on removal of statues & renaming of bases since you have no problem with "letting go of the past"
     
    #27     Jun 11, 2020

  8. It should exist in history books and museums but a group of Southerners want it to reemerge and go back to ye old Dixie days :)
     
    #28     Jun 11, 2020
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  9. Snarkhund

    Snarkhund

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    #29     Jun 11, 2020
  10. Wallet

    Wallet

    I guess the same thing could be said for reparations or the whole excuse of blaming the actions of people who died 100 years ago for anything. People should be judged on their character and how they lead their lives today, not grouped and stigmatized by biased racial misconceptions. The door swings both ways.

    I’d bet the vast majority of people could care less about a bunch of civil war statutes and most, if not all of those opposing them could tell you from memory, or bring prompted, who they were or what they did.

    This whole virtue signaling false narrative is nothing more than an attempt to stir hatred and divide.
     
    #30     Jun 11, 2020