tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post5980219643650095668..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: BloKKK Party, C'ville!Winston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-45014333033000365412017-07-08T18:27:35.012-04:002017-07-08T18:27:35.012-04:00I've got a whole song and dance about that--It...I've got a whole song and dance about that--It's a complicated question, obviously.<br /><br />But this is one of those issues I'm too angry about right now to discuss terribly rationally--because so much of what's going on *is*, in fact, a joyful, trumphalist push to crush southern culture--which American liberals hate almost more than anything else in the world. The issue can, Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-68450131026779804022017-07-08T15:17:42.305-04:002017-07-08T15:17:42.305-04:00I'd be interested in the rationale against the...I'd be interested in the rationale against the Nazi analogy. I mean, this was a war in which the southern states would rather destroy the United States than relent to the forces of Democracy in abandoning the enslavement of other human beings.<br /><br />That's about as bad as it gets, in my book.<br /><br />I am not the greatest Civil War scholar, and I could be underestimating the The Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813641115915460692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-452170481624553502017-07-08T13:43:32.099-04:002017-07-08T13:43:32.099-04:00Yeah no, not going to go with the Nazi analogy.
...Yeah no, not going to go with the Nazi analogy. <br /><br />But it was a godawful tragedy, that's for sure. <br /><br />I read--and I think posted--something recently in which someone argued, as I understood it, basically: keep things like parks, as they're more noncommittal / not-explicitly-glorifying... But statues...well ... Damn statues...Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-31590629327851167272017-07-08T10:50:54.575-04:002017-07-08T10:50:54.575-04:00After reading the KKK's assertions that propon...After reading the KKK's assertions that proponents of the statue's removal are trying to "erase white history", I got to thinking: the perfect solution here seems to me to replace the statue with one of, say, Moncure Conway, a prominent Virginian abolitionist who stood up to the Confederacy from within.<br /><br />That way, no one can complain we're erasing white history, The Mystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00813641115915460692noreply@blogger.com