I’m sorry if saying “Asian” (dramatic quotation marks included) instead of Japanese was somehow the height of insensitivity—-I guess I learn something new every day. If you’re not being intentionally obtuse though about WWII, look up Hiroshima and Nagasaki....you’ll be amazed at what the US did as part of a war that…

gets it.

That’s my kind of money laundering.

So based on that (entirely arbitrary) criteria, I’m guessing you’ll be lobbying for the removal of Malcom X monuments from public land too, right?

Agree, but as you see from multiple replies on here, there are plenty who accepted their programming well and turn a debate about removing history into just the dynamic you described. It was worth a shot anyway, but I guess I’ll just mosey back to my plantation and sleep with my sister as I listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd…

LOL......and you are an example of people branding anyone who doesn’t subscribe to their precise world view. I have NEVER defended the South in this argument, and the reason you think I have is because you’re so up your own ass on this topic. The South was hands down, in the wrong when it comes to the Civil War.…

Sure. Slavery, states’ rights, Northern resentment due to massive economic differences, Southerners believing that Northerners were descendants of Cromwell (and altogether different from themselves)....there’s a myriad of reasons, which I know because I’m a student of history and the war.

I’ll stop “trolling” when Gawker authors stop including bullshit snark in their articles.

Again, where is this “no govt funding should go to anything that anyone finds offensive” statute coming from?

Right, because most of those soldiers who didn’t own slaves, and didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever owning slaves, were so clearly invested in the slave trade that they wanted to put their lives on the line. Nonsense right back at you.

And by the way, native South Carolinian here......love the Alvin Greene name.

That’s a pretty broad statement.......so if something upsets people, it should go.....what exactly does that not apply to?

Good God almighty........The Dukes of Hazzard isn’t on the air anymore because of the blanket knee-jerk reactions of offense to anything civil war related. Was the General Lee a literal monument to slavery? I’m not a “south’s gonna rise again” type, not by a long shot. I am a HUGE “those who don’t learn history are…

So the case has been solved, the culprits caught, and the motives determined?

It’s a great place to draw the line for defining someone as not having a complete view of the war and lacking any sense of historical perspective.

Ok, so now we’re getting somewhere. Let’s assume that you are speaking for all African Americans in being offended by these monuments......where else can we take this concept? Does it apply to anyone who is offended? Does anything causing offense get removed or spackled over?

Sure some fought for that, and many who fought could not have cared less about that issue. I bet many Asians who descended from Hiroshima victims find the WWII monument to be offensive.....should we take that down so they don’t have to walk by and be reminded of that sad milestone in history? Again, I’m open, you guys…

Ok, I’ll play.........where do we draw the line in this game of “Fuck this and fuck that”? George Washington owned slaves.......should we just topple the Washington Monument? Some US GI’s committed horrible atrocities against civilians in Vietnam.....does the Vietnam Wall belong on public land?

“Look, the Confederacy lost. It’s not going to “rise again”

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