Posted on Aug 12, 2017
An Influential Vet Just Put The Blame For Today’s Violence Right Where It Belongs In Epic Rant
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An Influential Vet Just Put The Blame For Today’s Violence Right Where It Belongs In Epic Rant
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Swing and a miss. This blogger got it wrong, he missed the main point then went off the rails. The second group was not a group of anti racism protestors. The second group was ANTIFA the ironically named anti free speech fascists with communists ideology. This event was two hate groups closing in on each other. It was bound to end in violence. The first idiots from the KKK-NAZI faction had declared that they would march. If left to their own devices, they would have done what they have done for the past 30+ years, and that is nothing more than be laughed at. The second group ramped up the event, and made it extremely likely to end violently and it did.
He also called for the removal of all confederate monuments. That is also wrong. That is the history of America. If you start removing history, who is to say what other offensive history gets removed or even who chooses what is offensive. What if we removed all reference to the civil rights movement? Would that be ok? Before you jump all over me, think about that for a second. Sanitizing history is wrong. That is what communist dictators do. You need to know about history so you can learn from it. Sadly we seem to be sprinting towards civil war at a time when people want to erase the records of the last civil war.
He also called for the removal of all confederate monuments. That is also wrong. That is the history of America. If you start removing history, who is to say what other offensive history gets removed or even who chooses what is offensive. What if we removed all reference to the civil rights movement? Would that be ok? Before you jump all over me, think about that for a second. Sanitizing history is wrong. That is what communist dictators do. You need to know about history so you can learn from it. Sadly we seem to be sprinting towards civil war at a time when people want to erase the records of the last civil war.
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CDR (Join to see)
Have to disagree with you on the monuments. They need to go. Removal of Native American's, servitude of Chinese Laborers building railroads, No Irish Need Apply, Anti-Italian and German actions and racial strive against blacks in the early 20th century. We don't have monuments celebrating these horrible acts, so why would we build monuments to individuals who fought against the United States, put state before country, and defended slavery of other human beings as a way of life?
Would you erect a statue of Benedict Arnold? Would the British erect a statue of George Washington? Obviously not, because they were seen as traitors and conducted military action against their former countrymen. So why should Lee, Jackson, Bragg, Longstreet etc get better treatment?
As for removing history, that is a false argument as the monuments themselves were put up to alter history. They were placed in an effort to glorify the southern cause of the confederacy. Something that never should have been glorified. Secondly slavery was the denial of rights while the civil rights the establishment of equal rights. the two are polar opposites and no one would remove a civil rights statue.
Sanitizing history is obviously wrong but the Confederacy can be found in history books, it does not need memorials and statues for it to be remembered. To keep memorials and statues around would be akin to the German people keeping Nazi symbols statues and memorials around. or the Russian people keeping statues and memorials of the Soviet union around. Getting rid of Nazi and Soviet statues and memorials and monuments does not change history, it just ensures that there is less opportunity to glorify a hateful and sad period of history.
Would you erect a statue of Benedict Arnold? Would the British erect a statue of George Washington? Obviously not, because they were seen as traitors and conducted military action against their former countrymen. So why should Lee, Jackson, Bragg, Longstreet etc get better treatment?
As for removing history, that is a false argument as the monuments themselves were put up to alter history. They were placed in an effort to glorify the southern cause of the confederacy. Something that never should have been glorified. Secondly slavery was the denial of rights while the civil rights the establishment of equal rights. the two are polar opposites and no one would remove a civil rights statue.
Sanitizing history is obviously wrong but the Confederacy can be found in history books, it does not need memorials and statues for it to be remembered. To keep memorials and statues around would be akin to the German people keeping Nazi symbols statues and memorials around. or the Russian people keeping statues and memorials of the Soviet union around. Getting rid of Nazi and Soviet statues and memorials and monuments does not change history, it just ensures that there is less opportunity to glorify a hateful and sad period of history.
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Cpl Joshua Caldwell
CDR (Join to see) - Im not saying we need more monuments to terrible things but erasing the history already exists. I bet if you ask the next 5 college grads that you meet, none will know the story of the Irish or Chinese, that history is already nearly lost. What I am saying is that the civil war was one of the biggest events in American history and that history should not be erased. It is important to know that someone at some point felt the need to honor a southern general and why!
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I hear you, i just don't think that the Civil War will ever disappear from our history, I just think there are other ways to memorialize than southern generals.
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SFC James Asbill
CDR (Join to see) - Sorry .. but you have the cause of the civil war wrong .
Staes rights and taxes were the main cause. And if you think otherwise .. Why did Lincoln not free the slaves in the North at the start of the war or actually ever free them . .. and did not free the slaves in the South til 1863 ???
Staes rights and taxes were the main cause. And if you think otherwise .. Why did Lincoln not free the slaves in the North at the start of the war or actually ever free them . .. and did not free the slaves in the South til 1863 ???
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All I read was the ignorant ranting of just one more asshole who needs (not wants) to blame everything wrong in the US (and for that matter, the World) on the Conservatives, Republicans, Tea Partiers, SCOTUS, Pres. Trump, etc. The very same Constitutional Rights that protect the Right of Freedom of Speech and Right to Assemble for the KKK assholes are the very same rights that protect Jim Wright to shoot his mouth off without a retrospective look in the mirror first before he passes the blame. One thing's for sure: You ain't gonna get to the truth of this violence listening to the bias of the Main Stream Media, because everyone's gonna bury their heads in the ideological sands of their politics and play the blame game.
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I agree. Every Confederate monument should be taken down. They were traitors and with that flag flying today right next to Nazi flags also showed and proved that point. Also i never understood why would an American who had a grandparent in WW2 would want to represent what your grand father fought and probably died fighting against. Thats like my kids flying an ISIS flag 20 years from now.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
PVT James Strait - No those statues were put of in the twenties to honor traitors, that is a simple statement of fact,
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SFC James Asbill
1stSgt Nelson Kerr - Check the Federal Law .. All Civil War veterans .. from both sides are U.S. Veterans ...
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
But only US flags fly at cemetaries. That does not make teason less treasonous. Appeasement must stop.
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SGT Maria Q.
Should we then take down anything with George Washington on it along with 17 other presidents, because they owned slaves during an unfortunate time in history when it was legal to do so?. Or maybe it's just anything that has to do with the confederate side of the war?.......make up your mind can't have it both ways. History is history and trying to erase it is an insult. that statue has been there since 1924 and all of a sudden now it's a life and death situation?....I have an idea put it to a vote and have the people of Virginia decide it's fate..... but that would be fair and too easy... smh
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