(08-17-2017, 11:31 AM)The Drifter Wrote: Adam2012, you got a helluva nerve associating me and others with David Duke and Richard Spencer ....
I have not seen any racist remarks here....
It's about heritage not hate.......
Those fringe groups stole our symbols and use them for their own neferious purposes......

How does it feel?

Is this where I use one of the Right's favorite buzz words - snowflake?

You post all kinds of things. You say all kinds of things. You imply all kinds of things. And your feelings are hurt?

How does it feel?

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(08-17-2017, 12:00 PM)FBT Wrote:

(08-17-2017, 11:25 AM)Adam2012 Wrote: It's tough being an old, while male southerner these days, isn't it? History is catching up to you, and you don't like it.

But hey, the post Confederacy had a good run. 165+ years is nothing to sneeze at. But all things must pass.

I find great humor in people bemoaning the removal of statues that until two days ago they didn't know existed.  Those of you in Duval County go down to Hemming Park and gaze upon the Confederate Soldier all the time? Didn't think so. Would you know if it was removed last week? Didn't think so.

It doesn't bother you that a lot of this love of the Confederacy was in direct reaction to Brown v. Board of Education? I went to school in Duval County - grades 1-12 - and never had a black kid in any class. Duval fought integration tooth and nail. That's the history you're trying to preserve?

Come Senators, Congressmen
Please head the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't citicize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
And your old road is rapidly agin'
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend a hand
For the times they are a changin'.

Don't worry, FBT. You and the boys at the country club, as well as Stroud and Winger and Drifter and Dakota and Richard Spencer and David Duke and all associated fellow travelers will get through this. It just won't have the outcome you wish. You thought with Trump you had a chance to string it out a little longer - but the little tin god you chose to support turned out to be a petulant man-child who puts his personal grievances before any agenda. And he's a terrible politician who is alienating everyone except a few true believers.

So, put on your Sean Hannity Truth Deflectors and hunker down. You'll always have Byron LeftTown's trolling posts to amuse you.

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.

Oh, the irony!

You of all people feeling sorry for yourself. You don't know a thing about me, blah blah blah.

Are you saying you know anything about someone you respond to? When you go to your standard "you liberals all blah, blah"?

Like I told Drifter - how does it feel?

You're just another message board tough guy who can't take it. But you can see the future! Tell me again how "liberals" (Or "progressives") think.  Oh, and throw in "safespace". You've got all the cliches and standard buzz words. What you don't have is original thought. But keep working on it.

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