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Why did none of our great progressive thinkers here decry confederate statues?

Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:22 pm
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
101689 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:22 pm
Until after Mitch deemed to contrive it into a vitally important "issue" seemingly overnight a couple of years ago?

It's weird to me.

Posted by junkfunky
Member since Jan 2011
33962 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:23 pm to
They aren't racist....now?
Posted by BugAC
St. George
Member since Oct 2007
52920 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:26 pm to
quote:

Why did none of our great progressive thinkers here decry confederate statues?



Because they weren't told how to think yet. Give them a break, it's hard subsisting on a couple brain cells.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
Simple Solutions to Complex Probs
Member since Jan 2004
423649 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:27 pm to
quote:

Why did none of our great progressive thinkers here decry confederate statues?

I LOVE THE CONCEPT BEHIND THIS THREAD SO MUCH
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
67508 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:28 pm to
quote:

great

quote:

progressive thinkers

These don't belong together
Posted by Sid in Lakeshore
Member since Oct 2008
41956 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:29 pm to
Because........ Lemmings.
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
23836 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:30 pm to
Because we don't give a shite. If the people who run New Orleans decide they want to take them down, ok, they can take them down.
Posted by cajunangelle
Member since Oct 2012
147413 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:32 pm to
ditch mitch.
Posted by TBoy
Kalamazoo
Member since Dec 2007
23836 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:32 pm to
Why weren't you shouting about the value of the memorial supporting killing the uppity, revolting blacks before they proposed to put it in mothballs?
Posted by Machine
Earth
Member since May 2011
6001 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:34 pm to
that's how social action happens, hosfly

a person or group of people bring up an issue they have and other agree or disagree with it. if enough agree, people protest or petition for change.

trying to say because PT progressives didn't start talking about the issue before it became an issue, they don't really care, is pretty straw manish
Posted by montanagator
Member since Jun 2015
16957 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:36 pm to
I thought you guys supported local government. The people of New Orleans don't want a shitty monument to white supremacy anymore.
Posted by 9th life
birmingham
Member since Sep 2009
7310 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:39 pm to
I didn't find them offensive, nor do I really understand the big to-do over the whole issue. I am not upset enough over them to care that they are being removed, but don't have a strong enough opinion on them to advocate keeping them.

Seems like a cheap political ploy to garner votes and waste money.


Posted by Sentrius
Fort Rozz
Member since Jun 2011
64757 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:48 pm to
Mitch Landrieu needs an arse beating of the worst kind. I hate that race baiting piece of shite so fricking bad.

He's like what if Afreaux was Nola Mayor.
Posted by The Spleen
Member since Dec 2010
38865 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:48 pm to
Uh, there were several threads doing just that following the Charleston church shooting.
Posted by Kickadawgitfeelsgood
Lafayette LA
Member since Nov 2005
14089 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 12:56 pm to
Is Rush out today?
Posted by WhiskeyPapa
Member since Aug 2016
9277 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 1:40 pm to
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Why did none of our great progressive thinkers here decry confederate statues?




I wrote this in 1992.
Posted by Vacherie Saint
Member since Aug 2015
39575 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 1:42 pm to
It's called incrementalism. The proverbial pound of flesh. They wanted to use the roof shooting to score a political win. It's a key tactic of modern progressivism and how they chip away at opposing thought.

It's the same basic tactic being used against conservatives in the media. See: ORielly, Hannity.
Posted by WaltTeevens
Santa Barbara, CA
Member since Dec 2013
10990 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 1:44 pm to
The 3,000 right wing 4 lyfers on here once again making a boogie man out of the 10 left wing posters on here. The great scourge!
Posted by Walking the Earth
Member since Feb 2013
17260 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 2:03 pm to
I never did give a shite whether the statues stay up or not.

However, in fairness, I've been mocking the Poliboard's fascination with the Civil War silver medalists for well over two years. Who gives a frick where your great-great-great grandpappy fought? Do you even know his name?
Posted by Decatur
Member since Mar 2007
28719 posts
Posted on 4/24/17 at 2:28 pm to
I do like the Lee Circle monument and wish they would keep that. As to the others I don't care whether they stay up or get taken down.
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