… then it’s time to devolve to name calling. Yes, folks, it’s time to dive into the email bag again, this time on the subject of the Confederate statue removal. This time around I’ll quote the damn thing with a critique interlaced. And in haste, as guests press me for time.
Words of wisdom from someone concerned .
OK, the first rule of handing out words of wisdom is to remember those claiming to be wise usually are NOT. And, yeah, just to be fair, I was a little appalled when Justice Sotomayor, during her nomination hearings, remarked about the importance of a “wise Latina.”
I have BREAKING NEWS for all those that want to erase American history during the day or in the dead of night:
If you take down every statue on the continent, slavery and the American Civil War will still have happened. If you have minimum wage skills now, taking down statues won’t change that. If you’re up to your ass in college loan debt, taking down statues won’t change that. The nation will still be $20,000,000,000,000 in debt. We will still be in a global economy. North Korea will still be run by a lunatic who wants you dead. Radical Islamists will still want you dead. People who hate you now, will still hate you, perhaps even more. Soros, Obama and the Clinton’s will still be sleazy and corrupt and you’ll still be just a puppet for them.
Dude, who said anything about removal of the statuary settling all the problems of the world? This is just a little sleight of hand, distract the reader while the cookie is stolen, now isn’t it?
But statues are all about celebration, aren’t they? Now, why are we celebrating the lives and deaths of traitors? Because that’s what they were. They started the Civil War because slavery was being hemmed in by States and Territories that banned it. And they couldn’t stand the idea that someday their slaves would be taken away.
So why celebrate them? And, on the flip side of this single, why stick the needle into the descendants of those slaves? Why remind them of the guys in the white sheets who illegally lynched and terrorized them?
Let’s just get down and dirty here. There’s never a single solution to any big thing. But there’s lots of small solutions to nail lots of small problems. One of them is our continual problem of race relations, of white supremacists running around with imagined grievances, and of the unprincipled folks who take advantage of that to build wealth and power.
The removal of those statues satisfies the moral imperative that we do not celebrate treachery against the United States. By removing them, we begin to fade out that continual sense of false grievance, of racial tensions.
Source: CNN.
Blech
The rest of that? A mixture of obvious truths and slimy mud slinging, wherein he hopes the former will hide the basic dishonor of the latter. Like I said, when he can’t bring up a belch of bad reasoning, he just slings the mud, hoping these ideas, these little pathogen-laden TICKS, will jump into the readers’ brains and infest them with calumny and libel.
The Department of Education will still not have educated anyone. There will still be only two genders. Hillary will still not have won the 2016 election and Bernie will still be a communist charlatan. There will still be opposing views outside your safe spaces. You’ll still be accountable for your own choices, and the world will still owe you nothing.
Here we get into traditional anti-government provincialism. After all, Education is what destroys this guy’s message, so he’s against it – take any protests with the proverbial salt lick. As we all know, Hillary won the election, but lost in the Electoral College – he might think that’s a very fine point, but the fact of the matter is that the Trump Administration is a minority government – and not getting any better. And Bernie? We’ll probably never know, but since he’s for gun rights, there may be a problem in that argument.
Taking down all the statues will still not change the fact that Communism has been responsible for more slavery and death than the Confederacy ever was and that it was Democrats who fought to keep slavery while Republicans fought to stop it. The removal of statues won’t change the fact that the first slave owner was a black man.
It’s a little hard to even know where to start with this bit of tattered shouting. Shall I just shrug and ask what relevance Communists may have to do with this? It’s a fading, has-been ideology, a dead-end side branch in the evolution of societal systems. So what? No one arguing for the removal of the statues gives a rip about Communism. Hell, most of them are simply for social justice, and a sizable minority are capitalists who recognize the danger slavery presents to capitalism.
And while I’m certain this is a desperate red cape flung into the air to distract me from the essentially empty failure of this presenter’s argument, I still can’t help but notice how he desperately also ignores the importance of context. The easy mistake to recognize is that of disparate population sizes. After all, Russia went Communist in 1918, decades after the Confederacy went down to defeat. Just on that basis alone it’s hard to justify a comparison without a fair amount of math.
But let’s take this one step further, friends, and ask how weaponry compared between the two governmental systems, because, make no mistake about it, slavery is enforced with violence, whether you’re a Communist or a Confederate, with good old-fashioned guns, and that means it’s just possible that the heroic Confederate general that this fellow’s worshiping may have used a whip on some helpless black child.
But he didn’t use machine guns. Or Kalashnikov’s. Not because of his inherent virtue, but because they weren’t available. But if he could have, would our generic Confederate done so?
You bet. You bet. And that’s what this guy wants to defend. Think about it, folks, for a moment. Your blood should run cold, eh?
And I nearly forgot the Democrats / Republicans mumbo-jumbo. Now, I can take this two ways. First, we can just cite context and note that the Democrats of today are not the Democrats of 150 years ago. Past performance is no guarantee of future gains, as the financial advisors will tell you. Second, and what I like better, is this: The Democrats grew up. The Republicans, on the other hand, lost any claim on moral superiority. That’s what happens when you’re sleeping with white nationalists.
Son, you sure you want to make that argument?
And now on to the final deception.
So, if you have a problem with a statue of Robert E. Lee in Virginia, but no issues with a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Seattle, we’ll erect a monument to your cowardice and depict a huddled mass of frightened and drooling idiots who can’t find their asses with both hands and a map.
I had not heard of a statue of Lenin in Seattle, so I did some research. He’s right! There is!
But it’s not proudly on display in celebration of the late founder of a dead empire, as this guy would have you believe. Remember, folks, if it seems ridiculous, it’s worth a bit of research. So here’s Wikipedia:
The Statue of Lenin in Seattle is a 16 ft (5 m) bronze sculpture of Communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, by Bulgarian sculptor Emil Venkov. It completed and put on display in Czechoslovakia in 1988. The statue was taken down following the Velvet Revolution of 1989. It was bought by an American in 1993, who moved it to Washington in the US. Since 1995 it has been up for sale and on display in an outdoor retail property in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle.
Ah, if I were at liberty to laugh, I’d be wiping tears from my eyes: the symbol of the antithesis of capitalism is for sale! The only celebration is when someone steps up and buys it – and probably melts the thing down for its basic metals value.
Oh, and Donald J. Trump is STILL PRESIDENT!
In the interests of being complete, I include the above pathetic line – since STILL is such an acknowledgment of ongoing failure. I know some of my friends reading this will take it as an insult to liberals, while others will consider it an insult that such a clumsy deceiver would proclaim his allegiance to Trump, for which Trump would surely sue if he could only find this dubious clod. I consider it an insult to America, though, that this person, so incompetent in both argument and deceit, still believes that, somehow, he achieved victory in Trump’s electoral college victory, as if the hamstringing and damage being done to America every day by this Administration is good for the writer of this concentrated effort in deceit. It’s a celebration of divisiveness, which, come to think of it, was a minor note in the song of the Confederacy.
He should be ashamed.
But he won’t be.
But I trust that my friends who’ve persevered to this point will agree that crap like this, circulating through our communities, is unworthy of respect. All it stirs is hate and division.
