Confederate names make comeback, triggering lawsuits

[CaughtInThe]

And you guys didn't believe me when I said that MAGA was nothing more than old Confederates.

 

[Nickyjo]

It was an unsuccessful revolution. That's all. You are making a mountain out of a molehill. Confederate had families, friends and followers. They are free to commemorate them.

Fine. Let them commemorate them privately or in public. But no taxpayer money for memorials, no memorials on public property.

Or better yet, put up statues of Confederate warriors in any state, so long as they are surrounded by plaques or statues to those who were lynched in those states. Surely everyone can agree to that.

 

[it's just me]

How about naming schools after the idiots who committed the stupidest blunder in history? Do you know of any dumber thing anyone ever did than what those Confederate idiots did?

You mean like Biden High School?

 

[donhughesmusic]

Again? They formed a country and immediately committed mass suicide.
I've got a Charlie Daniels album with a song that says, "Be proud you're a rebel cuz the souths gonna do it again!" and I wonder what they ever did that should be repeated. Or that anyone could be proud of.

Charlie Daniels songs are so weird sometimes. "Uneasy Rider" and "Simple Man" couldn't be about more opposite types of people.

 

[Airyaman]

This is interesting

Maybe when Trump gets in office we can bring back Fort Bragg and others?

Fort BRAGG? No way. Not with Trump.

 

[Juin]

Highest bidder Monticello Slave Plantation Owner and CEO Thomas Jefferson.

You did not address the question: are you giving Mssa Tom Jeff'son a pass?

 

[Juin]

The above gentleman could as easily have been a survivour of Massa Tom Jeff'son's Monticello Slave Plantation.

If slavery condemns in perpetuity even a lowly barefoot Confederate draftee who owned no slaves, why should an industrial scale slaver like Massa Tom Jeff'son get a pass?

 

[CaughtInThe]

Highest bidder Monticello Slave Plantation Owner and CEO Thomas Jefferson.

You did not address the question: are you giving Mssa Tom Jeff'son a pass?

 

[NatMorton]

How about naming schools after the idiots who committed the stupidest blunder in history? Do you know of any dumber thing anyone ever did than what those Confederate idiots did?

Maginot High?

 

[NatMorton]

The thirteen obscure colonies were traitors to His Britannic Majesty George III, does that make the United States "Traitor States of America"?

Yes, and we’ll wear that label proudly, thank you very much.

 

[NatMorton]

As opposed to "A bit early in her career for schools to be named after AOC, don’t you think?" which you consider a sophisticated multi-faceted remark.

Yes, I do.

 

[eohrnberger]

Fine. Let them commemorate them privately or in public. But no taxpayer money for memorials, no memorials on public property.

Or better yet, put up statues of Confederate warriors in any state, so long as they are surrounded by plaques or statues to those who were lynched in those states. Surely everyone can agree to that.

OK, so no taxpayer money for Pride month, Pride flags, etc.? The same would have to be for any minority celebration.
This would seem to be fair.

 

[j brown's body]

Highest bidder Monticello Slave Plantation Owner and CEO Thomas Jefferson.

You did not address the question: are you giving Mssa Tom Jeff'son a pass?

Jefferson's words outlive his actions.

 

[j brown's body]

OK, so no taxpayer money for Pride month, Pride flags, etc.? The same would have to be for any minority celebration.
This would seem to be fair.

You all are like, if we can't have memorials that attack "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," you cannot have things that celebrate it.

Shouldn't our founding principles meaning something?

 

[CaughtInThe]

You guys don't even have to believe me specifically when I say that we're fighting confederates. Just read threads like this. They're all over the internet.

 

[VySky]

You all are like, if we can't have memorials that attack "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," you cannot have things that celebrate it.

Shouldn't our founding principles meaning something?

Just because something makes you happy, doesn't mean its right.

I'm sure Hitler was happy he had train cars filled to capacity.

 

[Geoist]

Maybe when Trump gets in office we can bring back Fort Bragg and others?

Why should we?

 

[VySky]

Why should we?

Because its the right thing to do.

 

[Geoist]

Because its the right thing to do.

I know it's the rightwing thing to do, but why is it the right thing to do?

 

[j brown's body]

Just because something makes you happy, doesn't mean its right.

I'm sure Hitler was happy he had train cars filled to capacity.

Lol, "the pursuit of happiness" isn't about being in a good mood. Get a clue dude.

 

[j brown's body]

Because its the right thing to do.

He's perfect for y'all.

"As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817–1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles."

Braxton Bragg

As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817–1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South's military failures but also as the chief whipping boy of the...

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[Juin]

Jefferson's words outlive his actions.

No doubt about that. His some 600 slaves are dead. They died illiterate. Their sufferings at the hands of Massa Tom Jeff'son's overseers could not outlive them, as they lacked pens and papers to immortalise their sufferings

 

[Juin]

Yes, and we’ll wear that label proudly, thank you very much.

The thirteen obscure colonies won.

 

[Juin]

Fine. Let them commemorate them privately or in public. But no taxpayer money for memorials, no memorials on public property.

As citizens they have every right as the anti Confederacy citizens

Or better yet, put up statues of Confederate warriors in any state, so long as they are surrounded by plaques or statues to those who were lynched in those states. Surely everyone can agree to that.

Do we extend that curtesy to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington- both industrial scale slavers? Or that curtesy is reserved only to Confederates?

 

[Bodi]

I think a lot of it is pure contrariness. Just wanting to piss people off.

I think it is more that people do not want to feel judged... which is exactly what is happening to Southerners that support these school's/statues/etc.