You don’t have to earn your rights. They’re granted on all men by our creator, and they cannot be taken away.

Wat. Comey is a man with great integrity, which is why he pushed back on his own party and wouldn’t play ball. Those kinds of men and women are worth listening to.

Well, it wasn’t a spoiler before — but it is now. Great job Aspie gang!

Dude. No.

The civil war was fought to end secession. Not slavery. Secession happened because of slavery — but all sorts of people fought because they were drafted into a war that was all about deciding the outcome of secession. I know you want to conflate all of this and make it out so that the CSA = Nazi, but history and real…

You realize that the civil war was fought by 17 year olds who were drafted, right? Then they watched their friends blown to pieces, and went home missing limbs or shellshocked. And then during reconstruction they built them memorials. Most of those people didn’t have slaves. They served in the army the same reason…

Um. We do. You need to get out to see more of the country. Class resentment is going STRONG. Go out to Appalachia 

The Vietnam was was fought over 40 years ago. This is still happening at the Vietnam War Memorial.

Wow. This really offers a bookend to the main Destiny review. That article was about that author’s bellybutton — and THIS one is about YOUR bellybutton. It’s a completely different navel.

Lee was absolutely a hero, and did more than anyone to ensure an insurgency like the one that wracked Ireland from 1865 through the 20th century didn’t happen in the the US.

So why don’t a majority of black people want them to come down? Seriously and non-rhetorically. Look at the polling data

No monuments are contemporaneous to the conflicts they memorialize. Not organically — and federal law actually prohibits it at the national level. That’ why there aren’t Iraq and Afghanistan war memorials going up even 15 years later. So like, maybe, just maybe, a lot of those statues that say “for our dead” really…

Yes. That makes you evil. I mean — luckily there’s no law against an inability to reason morally, but just be careful not to violate criminal law, and you’ll probably skate through the next few years. Don’t worry — lots of other sociopaths are stepping up to self-identify now that there’s very little social stigma for…

Oh — well it’s the same thing then, as sitting with your best friend you’ve known since birth and holding his hand until he dies from having his guts exposed by shrapnel. I can’t see why either of you would want to memorialize or make sense of your jobs. <eyeroll>

Except the Confederate survivors were still alive, and so where the families of the dead. That’s what all these “decades later” stories miss. It took 60 years to get a WWII memorial built. Veterans still lived in group homes for the disabled and shell shocked until 1930.

That will never not make me cry with laughter!

Exposure therapy. Everybody in this thread needs to get a good therapist and start exposure therapy before you pick up additional sources of anxiety

You’re allowed to be generous. You’re allowed to be self-centered. You do you.

+1 for saying all of this without lazying out with the use of the word “problematic.”

Context. Remember what everything else looked like circa 2006? Go pick up a January 2007 smartphone and feel pain