dissident wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZJ1OVCXLCs
The mobs of woke zealots led by BLM and their attack on the "bad" old ways and symbols are a new fanatical religion. As with all other religions, the zealots commit all the crimes. Just because there may be some good aspects to a certain set of beliefs does not justify violent suppression of dissent. We see exactly the sort of Talban-like behaviour on Twitter and other social media. Dare not conform to the religion of woke and you and your family will be threatened with physical violence and your employer will be pressured to lay you off.
BLM and the mobs pulling down and defacing statues (e.g. that of Stevie Ray Vaughan) are criminal zealots. If the peaceful part of the population (the silent majority) sits there and does nothing, it will be living under oppression in short order. Don't delude yourself that this is merely some Rodney King style riots.
Outcast_Searcher wrote:Now, how do you fix it? I don't know. Once people stop acting rationally, that's outside my bailiwick.
Plantagenet wrote:Outcast_Searcher wrote:Now, how do you fix it? I don't know. Once people stop acting rationally, that's outside my bailiwick.
Biden's campaign pledge is that he will bring about "a return to normalcy."
Perhaps electing Biden is now the way to make America great again?
Cheers!
Biden's campaign pledge is that he will bring about "a return to normalcy.
asg70 wrote:I don't think the world has felt "normal" since before 911, or maybe a little further back, before the dot com bust. Late 90s, waning days of the Clinton presidency. I don't think there's any chance of getting back to that. All we can hope for are partial victories.
ralfy wrote:Funded by the rich, which also funds the military industrial complex.
jedrider wrote:Concerning cultural vandalism, I think history ought to be weighed.
We toppled Saddam's Hussein's statute in Iraq. We ought to be able to take our own medicine IMO.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:jedrider wrote:Concerning cultural vandalism, I think history ought to be weighed.
We toppled Saddam's Hussein's statute in Iraq. We ought to be able to take our own medicine IMO.
I find it ironic that people can not distinguish between toppling the statue of a then still living brutal dictator and pulling down a statue of a historical figure who died at least a century ago and hasn't brutalized anyone now alive even if they were total asshats when they were alive.
jedrider wrote:We get to choose our historical narrative and not let the past choose it for us.
jedrider wrote:Christopher Columbus. Put him in a Colonization Museum where he belongs. Show the 'Indians' being scalped.
asg70 wrote:jedrider wrote:Christopher Columbus. Put him in a Colonization Museum where he belongs. Show the 'Indians' being scalped.
There are scant few figures in history for whom you can't find some dirt on. Like if we get rid of Columbus Day should we also get rid of MLK day because of this?
https://theconversation.com/im-an-mlk-s ... ght-118015
I think history ought to be weighed
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