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Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - LisaJarratt - 08-18-2017
Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain
Shhhhhh...
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - bradberry - 08-22-2017
Why are we erasing our history?
Is there a difference between the leftists and ISIS?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150901-isis-destruction-looting-ancient-sites-iraq-syria-archaeology/
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - LisaJarratt - 08-22-2017
(08-22-2017, 09:15 AM)bradberry Wrote: Why are we erasing our history?
Is there a difference between the leftists and ISIS?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150901-isis-destruction-looting-ancient-sites-iraq-syria-archaeology/
My thought, is when the visuals are all gone(destroyed) in History... what will be next? Anyone who reminds us of our past? This is such a "can't get our feelings hurt" generation. No one is wrong except if you disagree with "us", and "we" can't be wrong.
Lord, help us!
I remember when tolerance used to be the latest word of the day. I guess when that started to work against them because it was being hypocritical, then they had to dump that word real quick.
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - British Gunner - 08-23-2017
There is no difference between ISIS and the left. Its not just erasing history, its replacing history with their version. A people with no history are much easier to control.
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - LisaJarratt - 08-23-2017
(08-23-2017, 06:34 AM)British Gunner Wrote: There is no difference between ISIS and the left. Its not just erasing history, its replacing history with their version. A people with no history are much easier to control.
Lord help us...
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - bradberry - 08-23-2017
Now we have ESPN preventing an oriental person name Robert Lee form announcing a game because his name is too close to Robert E Lee. "ESPN Pulls Announcer Robert Lee From Virginia Game Because of His Name" "ESPN has removed an announcer from its broadcast of the University of Virginia’s first football game next month because he has the same name as a Confederate general memorialized in statues that are being taken down across the country".
WTF?
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - bradberry - 08-23-2017
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - LisaJarratt - 08-23-2017
(08-23-2017, 08:40 AM)bradberry Wrote: Now we have ESPN preventing an oriental person name Robert Lee form announcing a game because his name is too close to Robert E Lee. "ESPN Pulls Announcer Robert Lee From Virginia Game Because of His Name" "ESPN has removed an announcer from its broadcast of the University of Virginia’s first football game next month because he has the same name as a Confederate general memorialized in statues that are being taken down across the country".
WTF?
I heard about this last night. This is totally insane. REALLY... to what extent are we willing to "get rid of the memories" of our History?
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - LisaJarratt - 08-23-2017
(08-23-2017, 08:45 AM)bradberry Wrote: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I'm taking this one...
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - bradberry - 08-23-2017
Truly, the US has passed into this phase of depravity. Whoever controls the past will control the future. OR better put was George Orwell: “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Last excerpt from George:
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - bradberry - 08-23-2017
Is there any difference between the removal/elimination and rewriting of our history and Iceland's actions. Control the future.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/down-syndrome-iceland/?linkId=40953194
Olafsdottir responded, "We don't look at abortion as a murder. We look at it as a thing that we ended. We ended a possible life that may have had a huge complication... preventing suffering for the child and for the family. And I think that is more right than seeing it as a murder -- that's so black and white. Life isn't black and white. Life is grey."
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - LisaJarratt - 08-23-2017
It's just scary how he got this right...
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - British Gunner - 08-24-2017
Let's not forget that its not just humans who are racist throwbacks, horses are inherently racist too. USC horse mascot (who happens to be white.....so a problem right away) has the audacity to be called Traveler, which we all know was the name of Robert E. Less's horse, therefore a racist.
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - bradberry - 08-24-2017
(08-24-2017, 07:00 AM)British Gunner Wrote: Let's not forget that its not just humans who are racist throwbacks, horses are inherently racist too. USC horse mascot (who happens to be white.....so a problem right away) has the audacity to be called Traveler, which we all know was the name of Robert E. Less's horse, therefore a racist.
Yep. The Horse is a Racist....sad....I did not even think about the horse.
RE: Poll: Most Voters Want Confederate Statues to Remain - bradberry - 08-24-2017
http://conservativetribune.com/truth-about-robert-e-lee/
"No. You may not agree with the decisions that Robert E. Lee made or the views that he held, but let us remember that he spent the rest of his life atoning for the war and his views weren’t just his own but those of his era. He was a man who was opposed to slavery and wanted to bind the wounds that the war caused".
"Lee’s views on race may not be ones we entertain today, but few if any Americans — even those that we rightly hail as heroes of the emancipation — held opinions we consider appropriate on the matter. As for why he fought for the South, Lee simply believed the United States was, as Rasley says, “an association of sovereign states that could, if they chose, leave it or dissolve it.” After all, as the Declaration of Independence notes, “whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.” Lee believed his state — and the rest of the South — was simply following the tenets of one of our founding documents".