No, they’re correct. Even “good” cops allow this shit to go on, so no there are no good cops. Fuck off.

Consider that you’re on the side of the white supremacists right now. You and Richard Spencer have the same position.

Fuck you, Confederate apologist.

I don’t believe you know what you’re talking about.

In Germany and Poland and elsewhere, they’ve kept the concentration camps as a memorial. There are Holocaust museums and memorials throughout Western Europe and in America. Along with film and books, both documentary and fictional, outlining in detail, how the bad things started, why they started, what happened and,…

I didn’t write that you were narrow-minded.

We’ve been trying to be better than them and doing so gloriously, for decades if not centuries. And we have done it by contributing culturally and all while still with a smile. There is no need to try and keep proving to them or other white people who are still on the fence. These are celebrations of White Hate. They…

Thank you! Whenever I hear people argue that the Civil War was not primarily about slavery I want to respond “Then why is it LITERALLY the first issue mentioned by so many of the states?”

Oh, you very well may. But your lack of understanding, knowledge of basic facts and slippery comprehension suggest you should allocate a hell of a lot more.

That you think this comes down to an individual’s actual ownership (and you’re wrong about both Lee and Davis —the two subjects mentioned) and also seemed to have missed the recent Calhoun controversy (among others) shows that you neither know as much as you claim about the Confederacy’s past nor about its fallout in…

Boy oh boy, you have just been working this argument out for a while. On its face, it is super reasonable (by design obviously). But here’s the deal. It fails on the most basic level. Because it’s starts with a false assumption. That is that these stupid monuments are the only remnants we have of the history of the…

It’s a shame to have to bring this up Every. Fucking. Time. that someone mentions the civil war and its causes.

You keep insisting that these statues are a learning opportunity, that they “remind us of what we did” and that’s why they should remain. But they don’t remind us, in practice—you’re supplying the imagined thoughtfulness and intellectual curiosity that you say would make the statues worthwhile. Inventing it where it…

So, if scorn isn’t “right” how should black people feel about and respond to those who think we should be lauding and honoring these great heroes? Because we’re here too.

Have you ever been called a nigger and threatened? Have you ever been in a restaurant with a white woman and been served by someone with a confederate tattoo? Do you know what it feels like when that happens? Do you know the humiliation, the anxiety, the anger and the sadness that causes? The violence and the murders…

The history is still in the books, being taught, everyday.

Holy shit, that is the dumbest bit of apologia I ever read. The generals were forced to fight for a cause they hated? It wasn’t about slavery? Holy fucking fuck, are you really gullible enough to believe that bullshit? And you believe it strongly enough to go to bat for those traitors who wanted to treat human beings…

The only thing about this that comforts me is that my company is so far behind they’ll never impliment this before I retire in 30 years.

Plenty of offices do dumb things in an attempt to take away that autonomy already.

You in particular don’t care about fashion. That doesn’t make you a gender essentialist. Do you assume all men don’t know a thing about fashion and all women care about it a lot? Cuz THAT would make you a gender essentialist.