Deeply offensive to revisionist morons maybe.

[Ishmael]

Army refuses to rename streets.

Ishmael

 

[DumOH]

I always wonder why no one has ever said

You are offended? WHO CARES?!

 

[MGurkus]

Reminds me of trump trying to erase things Obama did.

 

[sharingfantasies]

I don't understand the tearing down of statues and renaming things. Shouldn't they be left as is so that people can discuss the history of the person? It is similar to countries invading another country and then tearing down everything to make the people forget their history. It is similar to banning or burning books. How can you learn?

 

[MGurkus]

I don't understand the tearing down of statues and renaming things. Shouldn't they be left as is so that people can discuss the history of the person? It is similar to countries invading another country and then tearing down everything to make the people forget their history. It is similar to banning or burning books. How can you learn?

Ask an indian.

 

[Lunation]

https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-08-2015/6t3Y8b.gif

 

[Bert Notorius]

I don't understand the tearing down of statues and renaming things. Shouldn't they be left as is so that people can discuss the history of the person? It is similar to countries invading another country and then tearing down everything to make the people forget their history. It is similar to banning or burning books. How can you learn?

there is a statue of
joepa
hidden in an undisclosed location
in the catacombs beneath
psu.

 

[richard_daily]

Time marches on... some people are simply stuck in the past. Those people will be gone and forgotten soon.

 

[Comshaw]

Time marches on... some people are simply stuck in the past. Those people will be gone and forgotten soon.

Ish's stupid dumb ass take on this aside, I don't think taking down all the statues and wiping away all traces of the Confederacy and those who fought for it is a good thing. I believe those who are trying to do this are trying to erase all traces of that part of our history. While the aim of their campaign may be honorable there is a definite dangerous side to it. That is the danger of forgetting, intentionally or not, that part of our history. The old saying that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it has much credence. When it comes to history it doesn't matter whether you like or no, it is what it is. Slaves (blacks) the genocide of a people (first nation) are two things that were heinous parts of our history. We should never forget it. Just as some of the Nazi concentration camps have been preserved so we remember what happened there, so too should we do the same with a war that killed more Americans than any other. Brother against brother, father against son, it tore this nation apart and we should never, ever forget who or why. Keep those names on the streets and the statues in the parks and every time you stand next to one or the other think about what it means.

'nuff said.

Comshaw

 

[Rightguide]

I don't understand the tearing down of statues and renaming things. Shouldn't they be left as is so that people can discuss the history of the person? It is similar to countries invading another country and then tearing down everything to make the people forget their history. It is similar to banning or burning books. How can you learn?

The biggest enemy of liberalism is history because so much of it refutes their ideology.

 

[Lancecastor]

We need to stop repressing the role of unicorns and rainbows in major historical events.

 

[Ramone45]

What gives THIS particular generation the right to make these decisions about revising history? Acknowledging history is not the same as endorsing it. People who advocate revision are intellectual midgets.

 

[Rightguide]

We need to stop repressing the role of unicorns and rainbows in major historical events.

The American left believes that flower power stood with the heroism of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and Tiananmen Square.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Flower_Power_by_Bernie_Boston.jpg

 

[Ishmael]

The biggest enemy of liberalism is history because so much of it refutes their ideology.

That's a 'quotable.'

Ishmael

 

[richard_daily]

Ish's stupid dumb ass take on this aside, I don't think taking down all the statues and wiping away all traces of the Confederacy and those who fought for it is a good thing. I believe those who are trying to do this are trying to erase all traces of that part of our history. While the aim of their campaign may be honorable there is a definite dangerous side to it. That is the danger of forgetting, intentionally or not, that part of our history. The old saying that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it has much credence. When it comes to history it doesn't matter whether you like or no, it is what it is. Slaves (blacks) the genocide of a people (first nation) are two things that were heinous parts of our history. We should never forget it. Just as some of the Nazi concentration camps have been preserved so we remember what happened there, so too should we do the same with a war that killed more Americans than any other. Brother against brother, father against son, it tore this nation apart and we should never, ever forget who or why. Keep those names on the streets and the statues in the parks and every time you stand next to one or the other think about what it means.

'nuff said.

Comshaw

So we should erect KKK memorials and statues to right wing neo-nazis?

Nah... They belong in the library, with the rest of ancient history.

No one is trying to erase that they existed, simply not glorify their racist ideals, and put them (literally) on a pedestal.

The south lost. Get over it.

 

[Rightguide]

So we should erect KKK memorials and statues to right wing neo-nazis?

Nah... They belong in the library, with the rest of ancient history.

No one is trying to erase that they existed, simply not glorify their racist ideals, and put them (literally) on a pedestal.

The south lost. Get over it.

Most of the founders were southerners, should we take down their statues, throw out the Constitution, and rename the Capital?

 

[richard_daily]

Most of the founders were southerners, should we take down their statues, throw out the Constitution, and rename the Capital?

Southerners are fine. Racists are not.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Southerners are fine. Racists are not.

As long as they aren't white they are fine.

As we all know whites are just born racist and Nazis who need to be stripped of their rights, for being white, in the name of social justice!!

 

[phrodeau]

What gives THIS particular generation the right to make these decisions about revising history? Acknowledging history is not the same as endorsing it. People who advocate revision are intellectual midgets.

What gives the previous generation the right to impose their heroes in the current generation's public space?

Ideas fall out of favor, and their symbols get removed. Then if an idea resurges, the symbols get put back up again. For some ideas, this happens on an annual basis.

 

[richard_daily]

As long as they aren't white they are fine.

As we all know whites are just born racist and Nazis who need to be stripped of their rights, for being white, in the name of social justice!!

I thought we were talking about streets?

If you want to complain about street signs for Pol Pot and Hirohito, that's cool.. but I don't see any standing in this country.

 

[BotanyBoy]

What gives the previous generation the right to impose their heroes in the current generation's public space?

They aren't, they named some streets on a military base after military generals.

On other bases the streets are names after states or cities.

Should we remove southern states from those bases because snowflakes find them offensive too?

Ideas fall out of favor, and their symbols get removed. Then if an idea resurges, the symbols get put back up again. For some ideas, this happens on an annual basis.

That's not how street names work.

 

[phrodeau]

They aren't, they named some streets on a military base after military generals.

On other bases the streets are names after states or cities.

Should we remove southern states from those bases because snowflakes find them offensive too?




That's not how street names work.

Streets get renamed for local heroes all over the place. Then if a hero gets caught in some shadiness, the signs get taken down.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I thought we were talking about streets?

No.

Southerners are fine. Racists are not.

If you want to complain about street signs for Pol Pot and Hirohito, that's cool.. but I don't see any standing in this country.

I don't either but even if LA/SF wanted to put them up (I'm sure they would gladly go for a Stalin Blvd. ) I wouldn't give a shit nor would I be shocked.

Kinda like an Army base with streets named after Army generals isn't shocking or bothersome either.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Streets get renamed for local heroes all over the place. Then if a hero gets caught in some shadiness, the signs get taken down.

Generals =/= local heroes.

Shadiness =/= political correctness.

 

[phrodeau]

Time marches on... some people are simply stuck in the past. Those people will be gone and forgotten soon.

Do you mean the black ones?

I mean, it's the blacks who don't like the signs because they're reminded of slavery. Should they have gotten over it by now?