That raises the question of free-stone or cling now, doesn’t it?
Anti-porcite? Moi?
OK, it’s a fair cop. Between bacon, BBQ, ham sandwiches and Spam, I’ve done my share of porcine consumption.
Can we have DoD rename Ft. Gordon as Ft. Sherman? Just because, hey, it’s about heritage and honoring someone who had great victories in and around Georgia…
Nice touch.
You forgot to label your thread with the RO tag.
Maybe he’s run out of outrage and is now merely resigned.
Yeah, well, some of us don’t believe in “labels”.
Like Fort McPherson?
You forgot to wind your brain.
Oh, burn. :rolleyes:
A burn would imply that I care about the person being “burned” in some fashion. Wrong again, as usual.
The Lincoln administration disagrees with you:
[QUOTE=Secretary of State William Seward, to American ambassador to the U.K.]
“no expressions of harshness or disrespect, or even impatience concerning the seceding States, their agents, or their people, [those States] must always continue to be, equal and honored members of this Federal Union, [their citizens] still are and always must be our kindred and countrymen.”
[/QUOTE]
Not that you’re wrong about the damned flag and the license plates. But liberals in the South have learned to pick our battles.
I get your point. My ancestors fought to keep that flag flying. It’s the least I can do to dedicate myself to making sure it never flies anywhere ever again.
Seward’s admonishment was really a butt-out warning to the UK, which might have been tempted to exploit the then-present unpleasantness for their own nefarious ends.
Fuck recreational outrage. It serves no purpose, other than masturbation. Did you enjoy it, at least?
What about recreational outrage about other people’s recreational outrage?
Nah. Not recreational outrage. RO aspires to no purpose other than to allow the author to bask in her/his sense of “this is bad, and I am angry, therefore I am not bad.” without any real connection to a problem to be solved, or a solution, in the world at large. This thread doesn’t fit. It wants something to happen, that is, to make it less easy and accepted (by removing government sanction from) the display of a frankly and historically racist symbol whose only current purpose is to threaten black Americans (and, in Europe, to threaten other minorities because they recognize it as the second-best thing to the banned nazi swastika). That’s not RO, though it may be futile in this case.
So … by just banning the symbols of racism is enough to actually eliminate racism?
No, but it helps.
It’s not “just banning” those symbols; it’s getting the government out of appearing to, or even actually, sponsoring those symbols.
Well then you will love this image. Perspective.
That is Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis.
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial.
I personally think they should leave the relief carving on the mountain. So that in 1000 years people can see how horrifically racist the second half of the 20th century was. Newspaper article to same effect.