The Cult of Trump

[Jim in CT]

Uhhh, Nikki Haley is the governor who took the flags down, isn’t she?

Howling at the moon...

There are confederate soldiers buried at Arlington. Should we remove them?
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[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

Uhhh, Nikki Haley is the governor who took the flags down, isn’t she? she did but she seems to have backtracked on the flag issue.

Howling at the moon...More insults from you.

There are confederate soldiers buried at Arlington. Should we remove them?
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If the soldiers never fought for the US Army, exhume them and throw their bodies in the trash.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by PaulS

If the soldiers never fought for the US Army, exhume them and throw their bodies in the trash.

the world was different then, than it is today. the left really struggles with that concept.
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[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

the world was different then, than it is today. the left really struggles with that concept.
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Is it too late to right a wrong?

Exhume those traitorous POS and throw them in the garbage. If there are some family members or those states in the traitorous south wants to rebury them - they can have the bones. I don't want to pay to cut the grass over their bones. Does the right not understand that?

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by PaulS

Is it too late to right a wrong?

Exhume those traitorous POS and throw them in the garbage. If there are some family members or those states in the traitorous south wants to rebury them - they can have the bones. I don't want to pay to cut the grass over their bones. Does the right not understand that?

Never, ever too late to right a wrong. But we need to be sane and logical about judging people from centuries before. Pretty sure you knew what I meant.

In general, the Confederate cause was treasonous and beyond racist by today’s standards. (The right knows this, because as we all know, it was predominantly judeo-christian conservatives who led he abolitionists. ). But there were many confederate soldiers who fought for something other than slavery.

It’s hard to imagine he founding fathers owning slaves, but some
did. That was the world then. Do we take down all monuments to all of them? Re-name the nations capital? Where does it stop?
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[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

the world was different then, than it is today. the left really struggles with that concept.
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Let’s be clear: The Confederate battle flag we know today is an emblem of oppression, white supremacy and the fight to maintain slavery. That is its heritage.

William T. Thompson wrote in an 1863 editorial about the “Stainless Banner,” the second national flag of the Confederacy, “Our idea is simply to combine the present battle flag with a pure white standard sheet.” He continued, “As a people, we are fighting to maintain the heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematic of our cause.”

In South Carolina, the Confederate battle flag made a slow march to greater prominence as civil rights for black people were asserted or attained, beginning by being displayed in the State House in 1938 “after angry Southerners in Congress managed to defeat a bill that would have made lynching a federal crime” and reaching the top of the dome on the Capitol in 1962 “after President John F. Kennedy called on Congress to end poll taxes and literacy tests for voting and the Supreme Court struck down segregation in public transportation.”