(09-04-2017, 01:25 PM)rollerjag Wrote:

(09-04-2017, 09:37 AM)FBT Wrote: 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.

If you miss the point of the intent of the monuments, you miss the point of the objection to said monuments. They weren't so much a middle finger of the north, they were meant as a symbol that their "way of life" was a noble ideal worth dying for, still existed and, more to the point, were a big middle finger directly to the face of African-Americans. The emergence of the monuments around the turn of, and early part of, the 20th century coincided with the implementation of Jim Crow. The same thing happened during school desegregation. It was all push back against social justice efforts.

There have been on-going, mostly local efforts to remove or change these monuments. I agree more important issues need attention, and I know many want to believe the current controversies were stirred up by 8 years of Obama and a false flag operation in Charlottsville, but when do we hear about them? When there are protests.