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Answering my question with another question is a sign of evasion. That tells me you were triggered by what I had to say.
LOL whatever you need to tell yourself. I couldn't care less about the confederate flag, but it's apart of our history. Acknowledge it for what it is, what it was, and how we as a society have evolved from it. Having said that, it's time to grow up and acknowledge that not every person who displays the confederate flag is or was a racist person.
Emotionally demanding to remove it in TV shows and video games (especially one that allows you to kill, rob, run people over with your car, and bang hookers) in hopes to rewrite history does nothing either. Because people like you are barely done drying your eyes before you're already crying about the next thing that offends you.
Instead of erasing history, we should be learning from it. Stop using the race card for everything and grow up.
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
Wild guess, I'm guessing this is your opportunity to vent racial resentment. I can't think of any other reason to say that.
Actually, you couldn't be more incorrect. You chose to ignore all the other "evils" of the game to focus purely on a symbol that was specifically intended to highlight the negative aspects of said symbol. From an objective standpoint, this focusing on narrow symbolism while ignoring the broader themes does provide some interesting insight.
The right isn't racist. I'm mixed/half white and my party members have never treated me in a racist kind of way ever. As always, your emotions supersede your logic. Imagine being triggered by historical statues so much that you feel the need to tear every single one of them down, thinking that "rewriting history" is going to magically fix all of our problems.
Said it before and I'll say it again, please seek help.
LOL.
We support the slave-holding Confederacy. We love our Confederate flags. We love our Confederate heroes who fought for the right to be able to continue chattel slavery of black people and want to continue to honor them for their racists views.
But why, oh, why, would you all think we're racists?
LOL.
You seek help. Your cognitive dissonance is off the charts.
LOL whatever you need to tell yourself. I couldn't care less about the confederate flag, but it's apart of our history. Acknowledge it for what it is, what it was, and how we as a society have evolved from it. Having said that, it's time to grow up and acknowledge that not every person who displays the confederate flag is or was a racist person.
Emotionally demanding to remove it in TV shows and video games (especially one that allows you to kill, rob, run people over with your car, and bang hookers) in hopes to rewrite history does nothing either. Because people like you are barely done drying your eyes before you're already crying about the next thing that offends you.
Instead of erasing history, we should be learning from it. Stop using the race card for everything and grow up.
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
- George Santayana
I'm Black and I find paying homage to Confederates or representing with the Confederate flag to be disgusting. The Confederates wanted secession and were willing to go to war for it because they wanted to make sure they could keep Black people enslaved perpetually. Articles of Secession, Confederate Constitution, the Cornerstone Speech. Those are original documents that show what it was all about. There is a reason the majority of Black Americans find the Confederate flag to be a racist symbol. And do not show me photos of one of those few Black people flying a Confederate flag. No. For those few that do, most don't have any respect for the Confederate flag.
Removing Confederate flags is a recognition that some causes and some people don't deserve accolades and honor. When one flies a Confederate flag, one is representing the Confederate cause, period. It doesn't matter what reason they give. What matters is what the Confederate cause is about. Same goes for the Nazi flag. And yes, I compared the Confederate flag to the Nazi flag. That is how I see things.
By the way, I've never played the video game in question. I just hate the Confederate flag, and Confederate statues. And I have no reason to have any respect for such symbols. To me, a community that openly pays homage to Confederates in big ways, that is a community I don't want to live in.
No, I'm arguing that the focus on representation ignores the, supposedly, broader goal of creating an ever improving environment for the constituents. Racial representation is a means, folks insist on making it the ends and then moving on.
Ahh, so you are saying that Blacks who really want a Black representative who actually understands their issues and has lived their experience, don't really know what they want, and should settle for some rich White guy who has never been poor and thinks most minorities are just whining. Because the rich white guy "knows what's best"? That's pretty condescending
Ahh, so you are saying that Blacks who really want a Black representative who actually understands their issues and has lived their experience, don't really know what they want, and should settle for some rich White guy who has never been poor and thinks most minorities are just whining. Because the rich white guy "knows what's best"? That's pretty condescending
Your analysis seems a stretch, at best. I was pointing out that there are many examples of blacks having the ability and have exercised that ability to have racial representation. To then stop there and not move on to the efficacy of that representation is the broader problem.
Unless of course what you're implying is that since blacks voted those blacks in, that they somehow "deserve" the ever worsening conditions they are experiencing. That's pretty condescending.
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