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I read the article and not just the snippet posted in the OP and its main point was not that whites are responsible for slavery.
It's main point was that racist symbols should be in museums and that their display in public parks and grounds antagonizes minority groups and causes divisions within our society same as they did in the past.
What if Martin Luther King's statues, road signs, monuments "antagonizes and causes divisions" with some groups? Would you advocate for removing them, too, residinghere? How about Mosques, or Temples, Satanic houses of worship, or Churches? How about the Constitution document in Washington? Or the Bill or Rights document? Should all symbols in our history that offend some people be removed? Who gets to decide what "antagonizes"?
Last edited by texan2yankee; 08-14-2017 at 02:55 PM..
Hilarious that so many people responded to a purposely edited article without reading it.
Now it explains why so many people have a distorted perspective on what is actually being written by all genres of media.
If that article didn't make the connection between white supremacists and all white people explicitly enough for you, read this one that I just saw near the top of my Google News feed:
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One of feminism's greatest contributions to society was convincing the American public that rapists are not ominous figures hiding in the bushes, but men we know—our friends, sons, teachers, and pastors. That shift in our mainstream understanding of sexual assault was necessary to end the social cover given to perpetrators of sexual violence. We needed to know that people do horrible things, even the people we love.
More anti-white racism from the left. Slavery hurt the labor value and prospects of over 90% of the white populace at the time and they were victimized by it.
If all whites are to blame for what some whites supposedly did at some time, then I guess by that logic everything one black person does can be blamed on all black people.
I don't disagree that some things shouldn't be displayed in public anymore and would support reasonable ways of addressing that. I also realize that those things can change with the wind, whenever someone get's a bug up their butt that "X" now stands as a reminder of "Y" and hurts "Z's" feelings. There needs to be a national consensus on what constitutes a thing so bad it needs to be removed, and even then it shouldn't happen often. It's always a balancing act when you try to use the current social justice ideas to filter and cleans the past.
I'm visiting Denmark next year. I'll let them know they're also responsible for the oppression of brown people across the ocean 150 years ago.
Awfully sensitive to have pulled that rabbit out of this hat, aren't you.
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