(09-03-2017, 09:29 PM)rollerjag Wrote:

(09-03-2017, 08:40 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Hardly, they were put there to honor the sacrifice of local veterans.

Oh, my. A statue of Robert E. Lee on the campus of UVA was in honor of local veterans?

You should research the timing of when the statues and monuments started appearing, and 50 years later, when schools were named or re-named.

Push back and white washing (pun intended).

I believe most understand the intent of these monuments was to serve as a middle finger to the north in the early to mid 20th century.  That's irrelevant now.  The people who erected them, and their intended targets are long gone.  

The people protesting these monuments today probably couldn't tell you a thing about the namesake of said monuments, or the history there.   Most of these monuments have stood for 60-100 years with nary a peep, especially over the past 8 or 9 years.  

This moral outrage certainly has some peculiar/convenient timing. It's not as if the intent behind these monuments being erected suddenly changed. The useful idiots demonstrating are just mindless drones being told, and in many cases, paid to be outraged on queue and on camera.  These protesters have been conditioned to be nothing more than trained circus performers acting for the audience.

That's their purpose. Dance for the cameras and make it look good. If you can create a little chaos or spark a violent response, all the better.

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