LOL, more stereotyping with the “truck” comment. Too funny. It’s easier to get people spewing the same lines when you make the debate personal for them though I guess. I’m 100% American, and 100% glad the Confederacy lost, and I definitely don’t have a truck.....you’ll have to vilify me in some other way to maintain…

“Your” team? Yawn. Another non sequitur argument, assuming I’m pro-confederacy. Next.

To me, the era in which some of these monuments were erected, and the motivations for some of them being erected, are a bit of history to be learned from in and of itself.

I think you’re unintentionally getting to the gist of my point......the WWII memorial no more honors killing Japanese civilians any more than a confederate soldier memorial honors the enslavement of Africans.

Wrong! Because I can speak for the world and make pejorative statements too!

I guess it’s easier than discussion around the removal of historical monuments, so carry on....let’s go find the toothless Klan wizards who clearly burned this (hideously painted) Lamborghini and burn them sumbitches right back.

a) It’s not “my” flag....that’s not my schtick, promise. I’m 100% American. b) This isn’t about the flag at all.....these monuments aren’t being targeted because of the flag, it’s because they were on the wrong side of the war.

A) my house isn’t public land. B) Although we fought against it, the Nazi movement isn’t exactly an integral part of the fabric of the US.

Ok, so to put it in layman’s terms, we’ll cherry-pick, which is a fantastic method when those making the decisions are in agreement with you, and a lousy place to be when they don’t.

See, it took a few posts, but we found some common ground. I would like all instances of “Bro Country” removed from public purview. Cheers.

Just like in defining whether secession is legal, whether one is a traitor or not depends entirely on which side wins. ;-)

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?