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| Hans Christian Heg (an anti-slavery activist and abolitionist who actively fought slave catchers and died from battle wounds fighting for the Union in the Civil War). His statue was tossed into a nearby lake in Madison Wisconsin. |
Look, I suppose you could use the excuse that protesters are just stupid and ignorant and otherwise believe that "every" statue is offensive and that there is no real reason to remember anything about our history... good, bad, or indifferent.
Obviously some people can have legitimate beefs about certain things, but if we literally tore down every monument, every statue, every building, burned down every park, all in the name of social justice, we would have nothing left.
Like it or not, history happened. Only a true fascist would want to erase our history and attempt to replace it with one that didn't actually exist, because such a thing might be more palatable. The left has already destroyed the very concept of "science" by rejecting the absolute nature of testing and proof. They have now turned their sights on history.
Not everything is subjective or a shade of grey. Some things are just so. It's called reality. Not everyone likes it, but you can only change what happens moving forward, not what happened in the past.
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IT WOULD TAKE A HEART OF STONE NOT TO LAUGH:
A Minneapolis Neighborhood Vowed to Check Its Privilege. It’s Already Being Tested.
After the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police, Ms. Albers, who is white, and many of her progressive neighbors have vowed to avoid calling law enforcement into their community. Doing so, they believed, would add to the pain that black residents of Minneapolis were feeling and could put them in danger.
Already, that commitment is being challenged. Two weeks ago, dozens of multicolored tents appeared in the neighborhood park. They were brought by homeless people who were displaced during the unrest that gripped the city. The multiracial group of roughly 300 new residents seems to grow larger and more entrenched every day. They do laundry, listen to music and strategize about how to find permanent housing. Some are hampered by mental illness, addiction or both.
Their presence has drawn heavy car traffic into the neighborhood, some from drug dealers. At least two residents have overdosed in the encampment and had to be taken away in ambulances.
The influx of outsiders has kept Ms. Albers awake at night. Though it is unlikely to happen, she has had visions of people from the tent camp forcing their way into her home. She imagines using a baseball bat to defend herself.
Not being able to call the police, as she has done for decades, has shaken her.
“I am afraid,” she said. “I know my neighbors are around, but I’m not feeling grounded in my city at all. Anything could happen.”
Who could have seen this coming?
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/382788/
but, but, but... we virtue-signalled our asses off!
LOL.
Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling.
Health officials announced last week residents must wear face coverings in public settings where they may come within six feet of another individual who is not from the same household.
But people of color do not have to follow the new rule if they have “heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment” over wearing the masks, officials said.
“No person shall intimidate or harass people who do not comply,” health officials said.
With mask requirements becoming more common, activists have raised concerns that the directives could put non-white people in danger.
“For many black people, deciding whether or not to wear a bandanna in public to protect themselves and others from contracting coronavirus is a lose-lose situation that can result in life-threatening consequences either way,” ReNika Moore, director of the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, told CNN.
Trevon Logan, who is black, said orders to wear face coverings are “basically telling people to look dangerous given racial stereotypes that are out there.”
“This is in the larger context of black men fitting the description of a suspect who has a hood on, who has a face covering on,” Logan, an economics professor at Ohio State University, told the outlet.
“It looks like almost every criminal sketch of any garden-variety black suspect.”
https://nypost.com/2020/06/23/oregon-county-issues-face-mask-order-exempting-non-white-people/
so...
liberals would have us believe that a black person wearing a mask "looks criminal."
why, isn't that RAY-CISS?
sounds ray-ciss to me.
...what's going on today is more dangerous [than the 60s and 70s], for the ideologies driving the disorder reflect just how successful the leftist "long march through the institutions" has been at corrupting American education and culture over the last half a century. As a result, ideas and behaviors that by consensus were out of bounds then, have now been normalized and abetted by civic leaders and politicians, as well as popular culture, schools, and even sports...
...The purpose, then, of the protests and violence has little to do with correcting a widespread abuse, or the mythic "systemic racism" responsible. It's about leveraging the rare dramatic instances of police misbehavior into political power -- not letting the crisis go to waste. Black Lives Matter, which has been at the forefront of this "crisis," has been raking in millions of dollars from corporations eager to pay the danegeld. As well as enriching the movement's leaders, this lucre will be spent on fomenting even more protests and disturbances, and on promoting an explicitly Marxist agenda that the movement cannot as of now persuade enough voters to accept at the ballot box...
... We are now entering the third generation of those who have been indoctrinated rather than educated, which means that the political ideologies of a minority in the Sixties, today are more widespread and embedded in the halls of government, as well as in popular culture and entertainment.
We sowed that wind in the Sixties, and now we are witnessing the whirlwind. The longer we appease public violence and disorder, the bolder the rioters become, and the more death and destruction will follow...
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/06/sowing-sixties-winds-reaping-todays-whirlwind-bruce-thornton/
rrb said:
Black Lives Matter, which has been at the forefront of this "crisis," has been raking in millions of dollars from corporations eager to pay the danegeld. As well as enriching the movement's leaders, this lucre will be spent on fomenting even more protests and disturbances, and on promoting an explicitly Marxist agenda that the movement cannot as of now persuade enough voters to accept at the ballot box...
I heard $1.2 BILLION from corporations. That's even more than Obama paid the Iranian terrorists in cash. And it does fund a lot of them.
Soros backed groups were advertising for "protestors" at $250 a night.
I have a feeling that besides Biden being a worst candidate than Hillary and want to hide him the dems are trying to go to a virtual convention to avoid angry mobs of the left eating their own. American business and Soros has funded the mob and it won't be pretty on either side.
I would no more defend those misled fanatics who tear down the statues of real American heroes, such as those who were abolitionists and other opponents of slavery -- I no more defend them than you guys defend the terror tactics of white nationalists who run cars into people and...
Oh wait. You DO defend them.
"There are good people on both sides," you quote your messiah Trump who said that of swastika bearing skinheads and Jew hating white nationalists.
Of far more importance are the numerous postings I put in the next thread down about what Trump's vs. Biden's present electoral situation is.
JUST ONE EXAMPLE:
Biden Expands His Lead Nationally
A new CNBC All-America Economic Survey shows Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in the presidential race nationally, 47% to 38% among registered voters, up four points from his lead in April.
Trump’s approval rate is a dismal 39% to 52%.
the lying POS "pastor" james said:
"There are good people on both sides," you quote your messiah Trump who said that of swastika bearing skinheads and Jew hating white nationalists.
That is a FUCKING LIE and you know it. He specifically said he was NOT talking about those.
LYING and waterboying are all the POS "pastor" has in his last stretch of life.
and desperation.
ROFLMFAO !!!
I see your boy Barry got caught plotting against the newly elected president. Probably to cover up for what he had been doing. Oh, and with Joe !!!
LOL He said it.
Only AFTER everybody jumped all over him for saying it, did he then try to walk back what he had said by claiming that he had not been referring equally to white supremacists, neo nazis, KKKers, etc.
He does that all the time.
He will definitely be regarded as the lyingest president we have ever had.
So the lying POS "pastor admits he LIED and Trump did explicitly exclude hate groups.
That's a small step for a pathological liar.
Who is a slimy weasel when not waterboying
Guess he's going to "attend" a conference in Switzerland today.
ROFLMFAO !!!
That is a FUCKING LIE and you know it. He specifically said he was NOT talking about those.
i've always found that the best reflection of liberals electoral/political fear(s) is how heavily they rely upon certain lies, and this is probably the best and most classic recent example.
Only AFTER everybody jumped all over him for saying it, did he then try to walk back what he had said by claiming that he had not been referring equally to white supremacists, neo nazis, KKKers, etc.
this too is a lie.
no more defend them than you guys defend the terror tactics of white nationalists who run cars into people and...
The woman was in fact an African-American who was terrified when the "protester" started banging on their cars and pointed a gun at her.
NPR in fact lied. So did James in hopes we forgot the particulars.
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