I see where you’re coming from.

You know nothing about me, nor my stake in these issues. It’s incredible how quickly you make assumptions to justify your own shitty outlook.

Ah, gotcha. Just so you know, I own (and actually read) books by Bastiat and Hayek so I’m pretty solidly in the pro-Capitalism camp.

I assume you also support it anytime a group of people destroys any monument with religious significance on public land as well?

If I’m being honest, it’s an immensely satisfying sight to see that crumpled thing. They should leave it; now it’s an even better, more meaningful monument.

Gandalf comes back from the dead as ‘Gandalf the White’ after he dies in that fight with the Balrog. Oops, another spoiler!

If Rosa Parks had rolled over a bus and then set it on fire, that would have been property damage. Luckily for everyone, hers was civil disobedience in the true sense of the word - she did nothing but remain seated. The only law that made her a ‘criminal’ in the first place was invalid and discriminatory and…

Without getting into the cultural significance of the statue I have to say that destruction of public property goes beyond civil disobedience. This wasn’t people standing in front of a tree about to be bulldozed to make way for a strip mall, or someone refusing to move to the back of the bus; it was a crowd of people…

Just chisel off any reference to the Confederacy and call it “woodsman holding rifle, mid 1800s” or something. As a generic statue its white supremacist connotations will vanish. There’s a good poem about the impermanence of rulers, governments, and their monuments - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

Hopefully Jez / The Root will cover Nazi crimes in Durham as well, so we can follow up.

Not every confederate soldier was a treasonous slave owner, just as not every soldier in any army in any war stood for what his leaders stood for. Most of them were common folk who fought and died for the financial and business interests of the elite class, as usual.

The popularity of late night shows (which indicates a massive market population of people who wish to consume mindless celebrity fluff pieces before bed each night) is another symptom of the society which led us to things being this bad in the first place.

There’s no such thing as ‘unfettered capitalism’. Capitalism is a very broad term, and the Capitalism of the 1800s is different from that of the 1900s, and 2000s, or that of different societies. At its core Capitalism is the philosophy that private individuals are entitled to own property (including Capital, the means…

You do realize you can recognize corporations as amoral entities without being a Marxist, right? If you didn’t realize that - now you know. Placing restrictions on the degree to which profit-driven enterprises can influence civil institutions isn’t Communism, it’s common sense.

If you’re interested in speculating / discussing with your friends, and enjoy watching new episodes together, then you still have time. You DEFINITELY have time before the final season.

The public sphere and the objects that inhabit it are not natural, they are culturally formed and can be reformed

If he’s game for Brunettes, maybe he’s game for Bobbies?

Point out to me where in my comments I said something racist. Or I can just say you’re racist too, which makes us even?

Getting away from crowds and into nature is usually part of a recipe for having a great time. I never understand why people do things in huge crowds where there’s no privacy and lots of light / noise, and then act surprised when they have a bad time.

Some people also think tomatoes taste awful. Or dark beer. Or lamb. Some people are also just whiny babies. Takeaway: they’re not that bad.