Jesus Christ dude, you misread his comment and reacted way too strongly to it.

Look, all of low-class/poor white America’s history can basically be summed up in “At least I’m not black.” That’s the ultimate understanding of white privilege, when Oprah could buy your entire family ten times over...“but at least I ain’t a nigger.”

Holy fuck someone got triggerededed.

“this is your warning”? or... what?

Wut

All the stars to you.  You’re doing good work here.

I regret I have only one star to give.

Counterpoint: “Hurr durr It’s not scary” is a good way to end up Orlove’d or worse. There isn’t a 500+ hp car in production (existence) that doesn’t deserve respect. 

I’m just here for all the whataboutism from touchy Southerners.  

Here’s the thing that pisses me off the most about these fucking statues, the goddamn losers of the civil war didn’t want them put up. They knew they lost and they were traitors and a disgrace, these fucking things didn’t start showing up until their shitheel kids decided they wanted to honor their traitorous loser…

To the white supremacists who will appear in the greys: your traitorous and slavery-loving great granddaddy doesn’t deserve a participation trophy because he got his a__ kicked in a fight that he started, you whiny snowflakes.

One individualized asshole putting racist shit on his rusty bumper is a lot different than a collective of assholes using taxpayer money to maintain racist shit on the courthouse lawn.

You don’t see this shit in my state and never will.

The monuments are exactly what they were made for... flash points for those who harbor hatred for people of color to rally around. The statues were made to be reminders of white supremacy, and that there were many who were prepared to fight to the death to defend it, and the institution of slavery and inhumanity to…

As someone who moved to the frozen north from the mid-south (Kentucky), I know more than a few people who genuinely try to make the argument that destroying these statues is tantamount to “destroying history.”

...a number of those people no longer speak to me, because I had the temerity to suggest, “Well, look, if it’s…

“It makes it doubly sweet to know that we have been remembered in the erection of this beautiful memorial. The present generation, I am persuaded, scarcely takes note of what the Confederate soldier meant to the welfare of the Anglo Saxon race during the four years immediately succeeding the war, when the facts…

Truth! And here is a link for anyone who doesn’t believe it.

Yeah, but “civility” and “heritage” or some shit.

From Julian Carr’s 1913 Silent Sam dedication speech:

Tearing down a monument to the self-avowed enemies of America seems a patriotic act to me.

The same fate awaits all traitors.