hahaha.....That was mockery....Good grief....We need a face palm smiley....
Oh? So what makes you think he wouldn't have killed these people if the flag didn't exist? What makes you think he wouldn't have just used a different symbol to justify his actions to himself?
Why don't you magically transport yourself into another dimension where everything is the same except for the absence of the Confederate flag, use a time machine in addition, go back before the shooting and come back with the answer?
Lets review:
He feels a feeling of low self worth
He looks and finds something to blame it on: Blacks
He needs a higher purpose to promote his views: The flag
Any questions?
just one - could you tell us how you know so damn sure that the flag was not part of his motivation since he displayed it so prominently on his web postings?
It's funny watching conservatives preach about the negativity of emotion in debate. It's as if the all the sudden never heard about their political football called "abortion."
Emotion overcomes reason, and reason is what keeps us alive. In this case, in another setting, mental health workers would be restraining her, but here, it works, and it convinces others of the need for whatever is being argued...beyond reason.
When I encounter such over the top emotions, I feel I am being manipulated. But then I have seen this whole flag mess as one big manipulation and diversion from the real problem. There are not going to be less shootings mass shootings because the Confederate flag was removed from the SC state house.
Because I know people will look for something to blame their feelings about themselves on and I know that these people will commonly look for something bigger themselves to rationalize everything they have concluded.
And your knowledge of the motivations of Root is based on what you think you know about people? Got it. :doh
So in your world a symbol of white supremacy and defense of slavery had no role at all in the motivation of a killer of people trying to start a race war because he believed in racial superiority. Okay. :roll:
:roll: Jesus Christ woman, get a grip..The man was crazy and I assure you banning an inanimate object won't change that
- Scarlett: What are you doing?
Rhett Butler: I'm leaving you, my dear. All you need now is a divorce and your dreams of Ashley can come true.
Scarlett: Oh, no! No, you're wrong, terribly wrong! I don't want a divorce. Oh Rhett, but I knew tonight, when I... when I knew I loved you, I ran home to tell you, oh darling, darling!
Rhett Butler: Please don't go on with this, Leave us some dignity to remember out of our marriage. Spare us this last.
Scarlett: This last? Oh Rhett, do listen to me, I must have loved you for years, only I was such a stupid fool, I didn't know it. Please believe me, you must care! Melly said you did.
Rhett Butler: I believe you. What about Ashley Wilkes?
Scarlett: I... I never really loved Ashley.
Rhett Butler: You certainly gave a good imitation of it, up till this morning. No Scarlett, I tried everything. If you'd only met me half way, even when I came back from London.
Scarlett: I was so glad to see you. I was, Rhett, but you were so nasty.
Rhett Butler: And then when you were sick, it was all my fault... I hoped against hope that you'd call for me, but you didn't.
Scarlett: I wanted you. I wanted you desperately but I didn't think you wanted me.
Rhett Butler: It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything.
Rhett Butler: My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
Scarlett: Rhett! Rhett, where are you going?
Rhett Butler: I'm going back to Charleston, back where I belong.
Scarlett: Please, please take me with you!
Rhett Butler: No, I'm through with everything here. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Scarlett: No! I only know that I love you.
Rhett Butler: That's your misfortune.
[Rhett turns to walk down the stairs]
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett!
[Scarlett watches Rhett walk to the door]
Scarlett: Rhett!
[runs down the stairs after Rhett]
Scarlett: Rhett, Rhett!
[catches him as he's walking out the front door]
Scarlett: Rhett... if you go, where shall I go, what shall I do?
Rhett Butler: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
[Rhett walks off into the fog]
From the grounds. Either way, Jesus could this woman be more irrational? Not only did she lose it just for the show and thought it would have an effect, but her justification was just ignorant.
Because it is stupid....The flag did NOTHING to make anyone DO anything.
One of the best scenes in any movie I have ever seen! And "frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" is a classic line that has withstood the test of time! Excellent! :thumbs: I may drag that movie out and watch it again this weekend!
Someone used THIS symbol of hate...
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to stick a bunch of Japanese folks in interment camps.
Emotion overcomes reason, and reason is what keeps us alive. In this case, in another setting, mental health workers would be restraining her, but here, it works, and it convinces others of the need for whatever is being argued...beyond reason.
When I encounter such over the top emotions, I feel I am being manipulated. But then I have seen this whole flag mess as one big manipulation and diversion from the real problem. There are not going to be less shootings mass shootings because the Confederate flag was removed from the SC state house.
And that says what about that horrible oppressive symbol of hatred pictured?The South spit on the US flag and replaced it with their own confederate flag of slavery.
Someone used THIS symbol of hate...
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to stick a bunch of Japanese folks in interment camps.
Well that is what this woman did.
The South spit on the US flag and replaced it with their own confederate flag of slavery.
Because it is stupid....The flag did NOTHING to make anyone DO anything.
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