Never argue with a pig fascist because they’ll drag you into the mud and beat you with experience.

‘B-but they started it!’ and now they’re trying to end it. Why are you so eager to stop them?

Yes, that’s why! lol

Thank you. Such a simple concise statement and yet so many white liberals get caught up in the political back and forth and miss the point. It doesn’t matter who did what back then. That’s an obfuscation and it’s not why people are protesting, The monuments need to go because they’re testaments to white supremacy and…

You’re brain is melting because a state doesn’t have a separate charge for attempted murder? Assault 1 is a class A felony with the same connotation as attempted murder; it just also includes other stuff.

You won the statue debate.

Because it’s a deflection, and any deflection is better than addressing the original question... because the answer to the original question is always “because I’m a racist”.

No, it’s not that the Republicans don’t know, or refuse to acknowledge, how they scooped up all the Dixiecrats after LBJ knifed them in the back. The party bigwigs know it all too well. They thought they could control and use the Klan trash and now they have been overrun by them; now whenever Southern racists or “Q”…

“name one kkk member that votes republican”
i post a picture of david duke.
“yeah, but not him.”

I don’t even know how to begin processing the argument that he is apparently making, which reads to me as basically, “We Republicans are defending these racist statues because they stand for Southern pride and because the Dems won’t apologize for them.”

Not only don’t they acknowledge it, you frequently see them try to preemptively discredit it. “Don’t start with that ‘Southern Strategy’ stuff, because it’s BS.” is something I’ve seen repeated frequently in comments, almost as if it's something they've seen on TV.

Interesting, racism and slavery started before any political party. Not sure why this is always the go to for these people. White supremacy has no political affiliation....

Not the point. They’re monuments to traitors who died for the right to own slaves. They’re offensive and they need to go no matter who voted for what.

If Democrats are to “blame” for slavery then shouldn’t Democrats get to say what happens to these statues?

ANOTHER REPUBLICAN not acknowledging a party shift and pretending that the kkk doesnt vote republican.

What’s missing other than it’s Missouri and it’s a white man that shot a black woman?

Not that they’ve given us any cause to expect better, but they may still pursue an attempted murder charge later after they catch this guy and collect more evidence. It wouldn’t be that unusual.

Probably cops’cousin.

Holy shit. I’m glad she’s recovering, it seems like the psychological damage is going to take a long time to heal. What an odious fucker.

Wow I’m glad she’s relatively ok. 2 feet away and shot in the face...