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--- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on August 16, 2017, 05:56:40 PM ---Anybody who is this upset about a Confederate statue being knocked down is the child --- End quote --- Apparently disliking people who actively support vandalizing and destroying stuff because of "muh feelingz" is childlike Are you trolling? |
| otto-san:
--- Quote from: Tactical Nuke on August 16, 2017, 05:44:42 PM ---only 6% of the south owned slaves at the time of the civil war so saying they all fought for slavery is painting way too broad of a stroke on the people who were killed maybe they fought because all the people they knew were fighting too and they couldn't bring themselves to kill their fathers and brothers and friends? --- End quote --- couldn't you say the same thing for literally any war ever? everyone who fights in wars is human, even those who fought in wars that were waged for the most gruesome and immoral reasons. those soldiers aren't victims, they were tools used by the state to fight for the right to oppress. there's nothing wrong with respecting soldiers, but you can respect and remember the less-glamorous parts of history without glorifying them and celebrating figures that represent those reasons. after WWII, national socialist statues and monuments were destroyed or removed because they represented the ideas of that state and celebrated them, and it would be disrespectful to the real victims of WWII if we remembered them by celebrating the soldiers who fought to keep those concentration camps running. |
| Tactical Nuke:
--- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on August 16, 2017, 05:56:40 PM ---Who knows what progress would be made if we took every argument ever to it's logical extreme --- End quote --- --- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on August 16, 2017, 05:56:40 PM ---Anybody who is this upset about a Confederate statue being knocked down is the child --- End quote --- --- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on August 16, 2017, 05:56:40 PM ---Who knows what progress would be made if we took every argument ever to it's logical extreme --- End quote --- |
| LeisureSuit912:
--- Quote from: Insert Name Here² on August 16, 2017, 05:58:26 PM ---Apparently disliking people who actively support vandalizing and destroying stuff because of "muh feelingz" is childlike Are you trolling? --- End quote --- Totally not the reactionaries that are whining about some statues being torn down that are going "muh fee-fees" |
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--- Quote from: LeisureSuit912 on August 16, 2017, 06:02:36 PM ---Totally not the reactionaries that are whining about some statues being torn down that are going "muh fee-fees" --- End quote --- this guy legit thinks tearing down buildings because of his feelings being hurt is justify able |
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