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talkpoliticsAll right, we got that everyone hastily equating the neo-Nazis to the "other side" of the "many sides" is a closet racist, fascist, Nazist, and other nasty sorts of -ist. Now that we've got that out of the way, could I please inquire about something?
Why the sudden surge of Confederate-related monuments planned for demolition? Why now? I mean, hundreds of memorials, memorial plates and signs, etc, have now been planned for removal. All of them related to the so called "Southern heritage" in some way. Even in places that were never on Confederate territory. We've got the Historical Revisionism topic this month here, right? I think this is part of the topic as well. The Civil War has been gone for a century and a half, and more. These memorials have been there for decades. Why this "spontaneous" attempt for a new reading of US history? Seems a bit strange to me, the timing I mean. Could it have something to do with Trump being president? Could it be an attempt to stick it to the Douche-in-Chief in some way? Could it have something to do with the orchestrated "Fake News" cannonade against him? (Would be sooo SAD if it were so!)
The Charlottesville mayor (D) suddenly decided to remove an almost century-old monument to Gen. Lee; in Baltimore, four monuments to Confederate generals and other historical South-related persons were removed overnight. Wasn't the demolition of monuments supposed to be an act of barbarism? In any case, it certainly seems like provocation to me. But to what end? We've seen the consequences. The clashes in Charlottesville were a natural consequence of that, because the mayor's decision provided an excuse for all sorts of closet and overt radicals to crawl from under the woodwork, and assert themselves. And Trump duly encouraged them, right on cue.
Could these be provocations meant to undermine the president, and put another rift between him and the party he (at least nominally) represents, so they could lose their position of dominance of the political landscape that for some reason they're currently holding?
It all seems a bit too crazy for me to comprehend. Maybe because I'm a foreigner. So I invite the insiders among us to educate me on this. To an outsider like myself, it all seems a bit fishy: about half a century after the abolition of the last remnants of segregationist laws, a new era seems to be at hand, one of intentionally ignited and perpetually maintained, ever lingering racial conflict. And the decision to remove these monuments was the catalyst that has helped dig yet another rift in place of the already-existing trench that runs right through the middle of US society. Because it didn't have enough of them already?
Are US politicians really that short-sighted and petty? Do they want a Second Civil War, or what? Because if it happens, it won't matter at all who tweeted what, and what other stupid verbal stuff they vomited.
Why the sudden surge of Confederate-related monuments planned for demolition? Why now? I mean, hundreds of memorials, memorial plates and signs, etc, have now been planned for removal. All of them related to the so called "Southern heritage" in some way. Even in places that were never on Confederate territory. We've got the Historical Revisionism topic this month here, right? I think this is part of the topic as well. The Civil War has been gone for a century and a half, and more. These memorials have been there for decades. Why this "spontaneous" attempt for a new reading of US history? Seems a bit strange to me, the timing I mean. Could it have something to do with Trump being president? Could it be an attempt to stick it to the Douche-in-Chief in some way? Could it have something to do with the orchestrated "Fake News" cannonade against him? (Would be sooo SAD if it were so!)
The Charlottesville mayor (D) suddenly decided to remove an almost century-old monument to Gen. Lee; in Baltimore, four monuments to Confederate generals and other historical South-related persons were removed overnight. Wasn't the demolition of monuments supposed to be an act of barbarism? In any case, it certainly seems like provocation to me. But to what end? We've seen the consequences. The clashes in Charlottesville were a natural consequence of that, because the mayor's decision provided an excuse for all sorts of closet and overt radicals to crawl from under the woodwork, and assert themselves. And Trump duly encouraged them, right on cue.
Could these be provocations meant to undermine the president, and put another rift between him and the party he (at least nominally) represents, so they could lose their position of dominance of the political landscape that for some reason they're currently holding?
It all seems a bit too crazy for me to comprehend. Maybe because I'm a foreigner. So I invite the insiders among us to educate me on this. To an outsider like myself, it all seems a bit fishy: about half a century after the abolition of the last remnants of segregationist laws, a new era seems to be at hand, one of intentionally ignited and perpetually maintained, ever lingering racial conflict. And the decision to remove these monuments was the catalyst that has helped dig yet another rift in place of the already-existing trench that runs right through the middle of US society. Because it didn't have enough of them already?
Are US politicians really that short-sighted and petty? Do they want a Second Civil War, or what? Because if it happens, it won't matter at all who tweeted what, and what other stupid verbal stuff they vomited.
