(08-17-2017, 12:18 PM)Vino Wrote:

(08-17-2017, 11:09 AM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: A clear photo of the Challenger being attacked:

(08-17-2017, 12:08 PM)FBT Wrote: Defending what?  The deaths in Charlottesville?  Who is doing that?

So what is the above post doing?

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(08-17-2017, 12:00 PM)FBT Wrote: You know absolutely nothing about me, yet you feel compelled to link me with people like Richard Spencer or David Duke?  You're nothing but the typical liberal who needs to demonize those who don't agree with you.  Pretty pathetic, but also pretty much the standard tactic these days. 

My opposition to this effort to dismantle visible representations of history, regardless of the intention of their being built or erected in the first place, comes from the fact that I think it starts us down a slippery slope that you and the rest of the leftist snowflakes want this country to go down so that you can truly eradicate anything you find offensive from the public view.  

It's Confederate monuments today (which I couldn't care less about), tomorrow it's the founding fathers, then you're going after religious or any other straw man institution or symbol that you can find to claim you're offended over because anything you oppose must be destroyed or erased.  One thing is certain.  You don't want a two way dialogue.  You don't want to be rational.  You just want things gone and a safe space where you can go to avoid being offended by reality.  That's how the modern "progressive" thinks these days.  Anyone who opposes them has to be labeled and ultimately eliminated before they damage your precious psyche.  Well, right back at ya snowflake.

This is always the excuse people use to justify keeping up statues of traitorous racists. "Heritage", "free speech". Considering this country was built on a foundation of racism and white men making all decisions, maybe all that should be torn down and made anew, ever think of that? The country is far different not than it was nearly 300 years ago when it was founded. Moving on from the past is not destroying the country, it's called progression. As a black man, I could care less if the statues of men who owned slaves and viewed women like objects and fought to oppress every other demographic other than wealthy white men get torn down. Even with all that said, none of the boogieman schtick you're going with is going to happen anytime soon just because they're removing confederate statues. Deal with it.

What was the post of the car being attacked intended to do?  I'm thinking it was intended to show that the car was attacked by the protesters, as was the vehicle in front of it.  I don't see anyone saying that justifies what happens, but you libs have a tendency to twist things to fit whatever progressive narrative you've been told to fixate on.

I've never used the terms "heritage" or "free speech".  I was very clear why I'm opposed to this, and it has nothing to do with either of those points  

I predicted the idea that everything should be torn down because progressives will find it offensive.  Burn the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence because old white guys wrote them so they must be garbage.  Let's just dig up the Communist Manifesto and go with that since libs love the idea of an all powerful government telling them what they can or can't do.  I'm sure that would be perfectly fine in your eyes.  Wipe out any historical references that are associated with the old white guys who built this nation.  You'll create a utopia that rivals the likes of Detroit or Chicago or the state of California in no time.

As a black man you could care less about statues?  How much less?

None of the "boogieman schtick" is going to happen?  Are you not watching the [BLEEP] news?  It's already happening, and has been for a while.  The offended snowflakes are just getting more emboldened in their actions because they now have a willing media stoking the flames, and they had a president in Obama who encouraged them to evoke the kind of change that creates the environment we're living in today.

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