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Charlottesville protests thread
Cappytaino:
--- Quote from: ultimamax on August 13, 2017, 01:13:56 AM ---They doesn't seem to feel "disavowed" to me (for context, Richard Spencer WAS at the protests)
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part of the social contract of living in a western democracy is that you don't attack people because you disagree with them. Annoying Orange acknowledged and disavowed violence from both sides. How is that not a valid disavowal?
Why during the election cycle was Annoying Orange held responsible for supposed violence committed by right wingers but nobody once questioned Hillary on Antifa or requested a disavowal? Holding people responsible for actions they personally didn't take is about as irrelevant and bullstuff-partisan as it gets. The only reason the media is circlejerking this stuff and idiots are lapping it up is because they think this will TOTALLY BRING Annoying Orange DOWN THIS TIME GUYS
Red Spy:
what i want to know is
1 why are people getting triggered by a statue
2 why are people going this far to defend a statue
Cappytaino:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on August 13, 2017, 01:18:50 AM ---what i want to know is
1 why are people getting triggered by a statue
2 why are people going this far to defend a statue
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it's more an issue of rewriting history than anything. Personally I don't give two stuffs about the statue but some people feel very strongly about "erasing history" or "sanitizing" history and oppose it purely on principle.
Lee was a very complex figure historically and for the standards of the time, he wasn't an awful person morally. He did own slaves but so did many other people that don't have the same negative stigma attached to them. Lee's legacy as a capable tactician is overshadowed because he chose to fight under the CSA and debatably was a greater/more historically relevant figurehead for the CSA than Jefferson Davis.
DrenDran:
--- Quote from: Augusto Pinochet on August 13, 2017, 01:03:47 AM ---Wow it's almost like Antifa are a bunch of degenerate NEETs trying to LARP as "revolutionaries"
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This account is so much better than the Karl Marx account.
cblock360:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on August 13, 2017, 01:18:50 AM ---what i want to know is
1 why are people getting triggered by a statue
2 why are people going this far to defend a statue
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people like to treat these things as national monuments and are considered as symbols of their culture and history. It's lime the Egyptian Pyramids or Mount Rushmore. A statue usually either honors a person by reminding people of who that person was and what he did or can be seen as an artistic masterpiece.