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Most 20 year olds probably don't have a clue who Jefferson Davis even was.
You're wrong about these students. They are intelligent, organized, and angry. And this isn't limited to a single campus. This is happening on most major public campuses.
re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by constant cough on 8/30/15 at 6:08 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
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No shocker here UT is filled with a bunch of liberal pussies anyway.
re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by ScootiniTiger on 8/30/15 at 6:18 pm to TheAlmightySmash
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restores morale among black students.
Sounds like a personal problem to me. What else do "they" want?
re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by prince of fools on 8/30/15 at 6:20 pm to Mo Jeaux
This thread is so full of stupid that it threatens to implode and form a black hole.
The statue of Jefferson Davis was on public property. You don't keep statues of people who committed treason on public grounds. Its as simple as that.
The statue of Jefferson Davis was on public property. You don't keep statues of people who committed treason on public grounds. Its as simple as that.
re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by Carolina Tide on 8/30/15 at 6:21 pm to TheAlmightySmash
I'm sure 98% of UT students didn't even know it existed, and probably didn't give a frick either way.
re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by weagle99 on 8/30/15 at 6:27 pm to prince of fools
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You don't keep statues of people who committed treason on public grounds. Its as simple as that.
And yet the President of the US at the time when Davis was alive, who BTW was closer to situation than today's experts, granted him amnesty for such a crime.
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When Davis was indicted on a charge of treason in the federal court system, he stood before US Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon Chase, who was acting as a circuit judge at the time. Chase preferred to dismiss the treason charges, but another judge, John Underwood, wouldn’t agree to it. Davis’s defense team argued that he had already been punished by the 14th Amendment, which stopped him from serving in public office in the future.
As a former US House and Senate member before the war, Davis had taken an oath of allegiance to support the Constitution of the United States. Under the 14th Amendment, anyone who has taken such an oath and engaged in insurrection against the US cannot hold public office. According to Davis’s lawyers, that inability to hold public office under the 14th Amendment constituted punishment for his rebellious actions. To prosecute him for treason for the same rebellious actions would constitute double jeopardy under the 5th Amendment. Therefore, his lawyers argued, he could not be legally tried for treason.
However, the Chief Justice gave the Davis team another interesting argument for dropping the treason charge. Chase asked if a person could be prosecuted for treason against the US if he were not a US citizen. Clearly, no. Then Chase asked if there was a reference to the concept of a US citizen in the Constitution. Again, there was not. A person could only be a citizen of his state. Therefore, by proving that the US had no citizens, Davis couldn’t be tried for treason against the US. It was a clever argument that has never been used again as far as we know.
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re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by weagle99 on 8/30/15 at 6:29 pm to prince of fools
And then there is this nugget:
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Of course, none of what actually happened matters to the emotional arguments being made today.
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In some circles, there wasn’t much appetite for trying Davis for treason anyway. Officials of the US government were afraid that Davis would prove that the South’s secession had been legal.
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Of course, none of what actually happened matters to the emotional arguments being made today.
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re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by LateArrivalforLSU on 8/30/15 at 6:30 pm to TxTiger82
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Sounds like the University actually listened and responded to its public constituency. Isn't that what it should do?
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re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by monsterballads on 8/30/15 at 6:34 pm to Carolina Tide
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I'm sure 98% of UT students didn't even know it existed
I don't think you understand just how liberal austin texas is
re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by prince of fools on 8/30/15 at 6:45 pm to weagle99
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Of course, none of what actually happened matters to the emotional arguments being made today.
I honestly don't know why you care so much. Chances are it doesn't affect you in any way. The statue is being moved to a museum where it can still be seen. It's not like anyone is winning or losing in this situation.
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Of course, none of what actually happened matters to the emotional arguments being made today.
The decision to pardon Davis was very much an emotional one. The powers in Washington had the good sense to try to keep the south in check. If they started hanging lee and co, people would have shite a brick.
but your version of the war of north aggression suits you better.
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re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by Mo Jeaux on 8/30/15 at 6:50 pm to prince of fools
We'll, your side cared enough to get it moved. Why?
re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by WalkingTurtles on 8/30/15 at 6:55 pm to Dire Wolf
Here's the next logical question, what's next? I mean they handled it well by removing the statue and relocating it to a museum, but now what? I mean racism and prejudice will not die with the removal of the statue, and pro minority regulations in place that were once needed for equality, have now become another albatross in race relations. And in my own opinion, SJWs and Activists never stop at one victory, they keep pushing. What's the old saying about giving an inch.
Eventually a stand is going to have to be made and real violence is going to spew out onto the streets. We almost saw it at the ranch issue in Neveda.
Eventually a stand is going to have to be made and real violence is going to spew out onto the streets. We almost saw it at the ranch issue in Neveda.
re: University of Texas Removes Jefferson Davis StatuePosted by prince of fools on 8/30/15 at 7:08 pm to Mo Jeaux
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We'll, your side cared enough to get it moved. Why?
We'll, I don't give enough fricks either way about the issue. I hate the SJW crowd but I also hate the "boo hoo people are taking my rights away" crowd when people have objections about hanging a Confederate flag over a South Carolina court house. No one is taking away your right to have a dumbass confederate flag or a Jefferson Davis statue in your front yard. People are just too butthurt or stupid to realize it
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I understand your point, which is rhetorical, but there is a dramatic difference in scale. One is a statue nobody really cares about on a campus that won't miss it, the other is the state's most beloved symbol. These things are not the same and you are exaggerating the point.
His point is no more exaggerated than yours.
quote:DOn't fret. Gen X'ers grew up despising hippies and watching South Park make fun of liberal bullshite.
This country is really going to go down the shitter when the brainwashed millenials take the keys from the dumbass baby boomers.
And we're up next.
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They are intelligent, organized, and angry.
Angry about what, exactly?
I'll tell you what. They're angry at the pervasive, structural racism that prevents black people from achieving prominent positions such as president, Supreme Court Justice, UT football coach, or Rangers manager.
They're angry that racist white people expect them to have a state ID to vote--a vestige of Jim Crow that will exclude millions of helpless blacks from voting.
They're angry at the complete lack of government programs to help poor blacks better themselves.
They're angry that they were born slaves. Well, not they themselves, and not their parents, grandparents, or great grandparents. But their great great grandparents were born slaves, maybe. And that's intolerable.
They're angry that these malicious statues have been allowed to exist all this time, amd white people continuing to pretend that a statue can't hold a person down.
And most of all, they're angry at the genocide of young black men, all innocent unarmed young men with bright futures, at the hands of cops who drive around doing nothing but shooting them. The statistics are clear: through the first half of 2015, an appalling 500 people were killed by police in the U.S., and a whopping 28% of those were innocent black men. It's genocide.
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