Disgusted with Progressives

• isadore

  FatHobbit;1866981 wrote:How do you feel about the founding fathers of this country? Were they traitors to England? I think a lot of people like to focus on slavery and ignore the argument for state rights. Mainly because history is written by the victors.
  
  
  
  To me destroying these statues is the same as the Taliban destroying historical Buddhist statues. It's not a good idea. I love your idea of moving them to battlefields and civil war cemeteries. Can we keep the history without glorifying slavery? I think it's important to do so.
  
  Also arguing against the destruction of these statues and defending the kkk/Nazis leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

  The states rights argument is bullshit. Read the documents the secession conventions issued at the time, starting with the first state to leave, South Carolina. they gave the real reason, they wanted to protect and expand slavery. That was the state's right they were willing to fight for.
  After World War II there was a real effort in Germany to remove signs of Nazism because it was a despicable evil. To many Americans the signs glorifying the Confederacy honor another despicable evil.
• isadore

  QuakerOats;1866985 wrote:So when a democrat klansman denounces the KKK for personal political gain, it's ok.
  
  When Trump denounces the Klan, it's not ok.

  1. That is your spin on Robert Byrd's words and actions 2. Byrd completely denounced the KKK, Donald was more interested in giving the Klan moral equivalency with the anti-racist demonstrators.
• majorspark

  

  ESPN has been known to ax people who run afoul of political correctness. Now that they have run afoul themselves with their "slave auction" whose heads will roll?
• jmog

  isadore;1866988 wrote:1. That is your spin on Robert Byrd's words and actions 2. Byrd completely denounced the KKK, Donald was more interested in giving the Klan moral equivalency with the anti-racist demonstrators.

  I am not a huge fan of Trump at all, but if you truly believe that antifa and BLM (especially BLM) are not racist then you may want to look up the definition of racism and/or check out some of their past protest chants/speeches.
• QuakerOats

  isadore;1866988 wrote:1. That is your spin on Robert Byrd's words and actions 2. Byrd completely denounced the KKK, Donald was more interested in giving the Klan moral equivalency with the anti-racist demonstrators.

  
  There is no spin. Robert Byrd was a Klansman; taxpayers paid for buildings and highways honoring him; no one protesting because he was a democrat. Own it.
• QuakerOats

  
• isadore

  jmog;1866997 wrote:I am not a huge fan of Trump at all, but if you truly believe that antifa and BLM (especially BLM) are not racist then you may want to look up the definition of racism and/or check out some of their past protest chants/speeches.

  And you, like Donald Trump see a moral equivalency between anti fascist and BLM with the Nazis and KKK. You might want to check out the past lynching and mass murders of those groups.
• isadore

  QuakerOats;1866998 wrote:There is no spin. Robert Byrd was a Klansman; taxpayers paid for buildings and highways honoring him; no one protesting because he was a democrat. Own it.

  Byrd apologized for his membership and supported legislative efforts to aid the community. Actions that are beyond David Duke and Donald Trump.
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• isadore

  QuakerOats;1867006 wrote:

  gosh a ruddies wearing masks is something these Trump supporters have been doing for 150 years
  
• QuakerOats

  isadore;1867009 wrote:Byrd apologized for his membership and supported legislative efforts to aid the community.

  
  You mean he used taxpayer money to warehouse blacks in urban housing projects in return for votes.
  
  
  
  As for Trump; he does not need to apologize; he was not a KKK member, and he has denounced the KKK and any violence associated thereto.
  
  
  Your comprehension of reality is lacking today, again.
• jmog

  isadore;1867008 wrote:And you, like Donald Trump see a moral equivalency between anti fascist and BLM with the Nazis and KKK. You might want to check out the past lynching and mass murders of those groups.

  Murders in the last say decade the BLM actually has more than the other 3 combined.
  
  All 4 of them are very fringe elements/groups that are racist at their core beliefs. What else do you really believe they are?
• QuakerOats

  isadore;1867010 wrote:gosh a ruddies wearing masks is something these Trump supporters have been doing for 150 years
  

  
  
  
  LOL ..................try harder
• isadore

  Hey idiot, that is the way the majority of the American people see him.
• QuakerOats

  In your mind.
• isadore

  jmog;1867012 wrote:Murders in the last say decade the BLM actually has more than the other 3 combined.
  
  All 4 of them are very fringe elements/groups that are racist at their core beliefs. What else do you really believe they are?

  1. Gosh a ruddies, nice attempt to trivialize history, the Nazis have taken millions of lives and the KKK, tens of thousands, but you reduce that to equivalency with these two minor league organizations.
  2. How many murders were shown to be caused my order of the BLM local or national leadership. Nazis and KKK were.
• isadore

  QuakerOats;1867011 wrote:You mean he used taxpayer money to warehouse blacks in urban housing projects in return for votes.
  
  
  
  As for Trump; he does not need to apologize; he was not a KKK member, and he has denounced the KKK and any violence associated thereto.
  
  
  Your comprehension of reality is lacking today, again.

  He denounces, then equivocates, he denounces then excuses.
• isadore

  QuakerOats;1867018 wrote:In your mind.

  something you could never accuse a Trump supporter of having.
• QuakerOats

  You have tremendous hate for the president; try to get some counseling before your hatred goes violent.
• Heretic

  

  QuakerOats;1867033 wrote:You have tremendous hate for the president; try to get some counseling before your hatred goes violent.

  Coming from you, this brought all the lulz.
• iclfan2

  

  isadore;1867019 wrote:1. Gosh a ruddies, nice attempt to trivialize history, the Nazis have taken millions of lives and the KKK, tens of thousands, but you reduce that to equivalency with these two minor league organizations.

  The current KKK and Nazi organizations are just as minor league. Use your brain for once on here. The "Nazi's" in the US aren't rounding up Jews or have any similarity to the German Nazis (who by the way weren't conservative, nationalist SOCIALISTS). And the KKK, as mentioned previously, have nowhere near the same numbers nor act like the ones from the early 1900's. I know you know all this and just want to act like a moron, but come on.
• BoatShoes

  jmog;1867012 wrote:Murders in the last say decade the BLM actually has more than the other 3 combined.
  
  All 4 of them are very fringe elements/groups that are racist at their core beliefs. What else do you really believe they are?

  Lol completely made up. I mean really did you just pull this out of your ass? Please provide evidence for this claim. To help you out Xavier Micah Johnson from the Dallas shooting was a member of the Houston Chapter of the New Black Panther Party and not BLM so you don't even get him.
  
  Dylan Roof alone has murdered more people than any Black Lives Matter activists (and fwiw I don't think BLM's approach to activism is very effective at winning hearts and minds but again does not mean they are equivalent to freaking murderers! Is the world getting dumber???)
• isadore

  iclfan2;1867037 wrote:The current KKK and Nazi organizations are just as minor league. Use your brain for once on here. The "Nazi's" in the US aren't rounding up Jews or have any similarity to the German Nazis (who by the way weren't conservative, nationalist SOCIALISTS). And the KKK, as mentioned previously, have nowhere near the same numbers nor act like the ones from the early 1900's. I know you know all this and just want to act like a moron, but come on.

  The KKK and Nazis are a continuation of movement belong long ago, they push the same programs and wish for the same result. Socialist in the name, does not mean socialist in action. In the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, Hitler purposely wiped out the socialist elements of the Party by killing Ernst Rohm and others Nazis advocating socialism. During WWII German government exercised much less control over their economy than the Churchill government did over Britain. Hitler rejected class struggle for race war.
• isadore

  QuakerOats;1867033 wrote:You have tremendous hate for the president; try to get some counseling before your hatred goes violent.

  
• jmog

  isadore;1867019 wrote:1. Gosh a ruddies, nice attempt to trivialize history, the Nazis have taken millions of lives and the KKK, tens of thousands, but you reduce that to equivalency with these two minor league organizations.
  2. How many murders were shown to be caused my order of the BLM local or national leadership. Nazis and KKK were.

  I mean, if you want to take the last say 200 years, the far left wing socialists and communists have actually killed far more than Nazis and KKK (and it isn't even close)...but here I thought we were talking about the hear and now, not what happened nearly 100 years ago.
• Spock

  

  isadore;1867015 wrote:Hey idiot, that is the way the majority of the American people see him.

  I bet you are wrong.