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vincentML -> RE: The Left's War On Free Speech Continues (8/23/2017 4:41:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: bounty44
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ORIGINAL: vincentML
"I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered," ~Robert E. Lee
great quote---but unless you can make the case that today's monuments are "keeping open the sores of war" (and I don't hear anyone saying that) it has nothing really to do with what is going on today.
Depends on how you ask the question . . . .
Sixty-two percent of respondents to an NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist University poll conducted after the violence in Charlottesville said that statues honoring leaders of the Confederacy should remain standing as historical symbols rather than be removed. In a different poll, by Economist/YouGov, a plurality of people (48 percent) said they disapproved of removing the Robert E. Lee statue from the Charlottesville park while 30 percent approved of taking the statue down. Notably, more than one out of five people (22 percent) had no opinion — a show of real ambiguity from Americans who aren’t sure about the best thing to do.
Far more Americans are sure about their feelings on white supremacists. Eighty-six percent, according to the Marist poll, disagree with the white supremacy movement and 94 percent disagree with the views of the KKK.
White supremacy was/is the main issue dividing the American people since the writing of the Constitution. So yeah, the statues are very significant to what we have fought about throughout our history.
Do these words mean anything to you? Slavery, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, lynching, voting rights, job and housing discrimination, Jim Crow?
These words have all been descriptors of our racial history.
The statues are avatars for these words. How can you not understand that this whole issue is about racial superiority/inferiority? Not about statues.
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