It’s shameful and the white washing of our history or anyones history is atrocious

Reminder of history

what's your stance on the statue of Saddam in Iraq? should it be reinstalled?
how bout Hitler statues in Germany?

Yes. This^

Yes! Without that reminder of what not to do, we are destined to repeat our mistakes of the past.

I'd like to make clear that I have no problem with the removal of Civil War statues, as long as it is done equally. Sheridan, Sherman, and their superiors may have been loyal to the Union, but they betrayed the people by virtue of the atrocities they committed. Leave them all up, or take them all down.

We have books for that. Like the Bible. Or ACTUAL history books.

The problem with books is that the people, groups, schools, organizations that write those books can and have skewed the truth or have rewritten history to suit an agenda. You can gather every history book across this country and they’re all going to be different and they’re all going to have descrepencies regarding the same subject.

So where do you get YOUR information from? The news is fake, books are fake, science is fake....what basis of information do you use to support your decisions?

Well I never said that books were fake, and neither is science. The news well that’s just a matter of opinion. I try to use common sense and don’t take anyone source as a be all end all, when you cut out the spin and opinion and if what’s left over matches then there’s a good chance that information is closer to the truth.

Minority in the sense that the folk that either don’t want them down or don’t have a preference outnumber the ones that do want them down!

yea, if you could read the meme again, look up the word minority, check the crowd sizes, then get back to us/...... you did it wrong the first and second times

Is there something wrong with your comprehension skills? There must be because you always sound like a broken record. Crowd sizes? And that means exactly what?? So a bunch of spoiled, over indulged college students whose mommy and daddy never said no to them get together and decide some statue is offensive to them and so the rest of society has to bow down to them and just let them do what they want? What ever happened to having a dialog or bringing your grievance to a town council? Crowd sizes lol why don’t you tell me about the folks who are having legal issues now in several cities because they took part in some kind of statue protest/take down? If you subtract the troublemakers, antagonists and band wagoners your “crowd sizes” are a numerical minority!

The conservatives say as they complain about a statue in Arkansas.

Boomer really is a mindset, isn't it.

Love it. Up voted!

Like that statue in Arkansas?

You mean Lincoln, Grant, Sherman and Sheridan? Better take a closer look at your 'heroes.' The Union targeted civilians.

Can’t defend the behavior of your candidate/president/slave-holding-traitor? QUICK, ATTACK SOMEBODY ELSE.

Exactly!

"Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty."
- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

I feel like a lot of people today are following Goebbels' example.

Some heros.

I don't know how you got that from what I said. They betrayed the people of the US and the values that they ostensibly believed in to preserve the Union. The ends justified the means in their view, but the means were heinous and criminal.

yes because legal slavery is not heinous or criminal. Ever hear of Vietnam, or The Indian wars? or Iraq, or or or or.... stop blabbering about irrelevant issues, start a new meme for that.

Slavery is heinous and criminal. So is targeting civilians. Treat all criminals the same, and take down ALL of the statues, or none.

You're a moron.

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"Mr. Offended Over An Inanimate Object - TEAR DOWN THIS STATUE" - not Ronald Reagan

The Dem's aren't overly fond of truthful reminders.
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yes the KKK all voted for Obama because they are "democrats" how f**king stupid are you? Or do you live in Russia too? because only a Russian could be that ignorant of America.

Good point you brought up - almost.

It was wealthy and prominent democrats that led the southern secession from the Union. And this was my point - that despite modern democrats' vilification of confederate statues today, their party has its sordid history. Can we really blame them for being embarrassed?

No, it was wealthy and prominent slaveholders that led the Southern secession from the United States and into their own separate Union in the Confederacy. That's the point - that despite vilification of Confederate statues today, their party has its sordid history - one which the Republican Party and its base has wholeheartedly adopted and embraced and still seeks to celebrate over a century and a half after losing.

Yes, we can and really should blame them all for being embarrassed, that's the motivation for taking down the statues. That you are not speaks of your mindset and alarming lack of shame for their misdeeds.

You are a Democrat then, I take it?

What "not" speaks of my mindset? Since you act as if you know me so well, your answer should be interesting. To answer your question, I'm not a Democrat, nor a Republican. And now that I have been polite enough to answer your nosy question, let me ask you one: what political party and affiliations do you belong to?

Nice deflection.

I see.. you can dish it out but you can't take it. How charmingly predictable! lol Have a good night, VagabondSouffle.

Take what?

My meme asked you a question, I added additional response to your white washing of history you refered to without knowing anything about, and you chose to give a non-answer to a rhetorical question at the end (which was a lie, because, "I'm not a Republican, I didn't even vote for Trump, but he sure is a swell guy" is a standard Russbot line).

If you're too ignorant to deal with my dishing out what you pretended to dish out, then you're too ignorant to deal with my dishing out what you pretended to dish out.

Sleep well, comrade. Enjoy your rubles.

No they didn't. Just because you repeat a lie doesn't make it real.

Course they didn't. They went up to Heaven in the rapture.