Or at least I try not to. I have thought about becoming an anti-farm activist out of spite.
The main reason to fight for the flag is because a pressure group will never stop. It is not about offending black people it is about the NAACP (and their apparent white leadership) flexing their muscles.
I expect to see a "one step forward two steps back" approach where we win one battle but then they incrementaly screw you later.
It is a test to see if our activist lame duck president and the conspiracy of like minde "Marxist-lite" cronies can give us a "cultural revolution" on the way out the door.
The idea of the Confedracy as a beacon of freedom would have succeeded if Cleborne's proposal to free slaves would have been followed.
However, what we non-southerners refuse to understand is that they really just want to be left alone, fly their flag, have their monuments, work out race relations at home where everyone knows their place.
That Harvard Yankee who comments here pointed out that the end of the war
Was unique in that the rebels were just allowed to go home. I say it was notable that they did just go home and go back to work and accept that they were part of the Union.
Now here's something I found on eBay that should pucker your bottom.
i think being offended is the new McCarthyism - all you have to do is accuse someone of offending you then boom! your life is ruined. i really dont get it. why, you could call me a pinko commie bastard and i'd just laugh and walk away. i wouldnt make tshirts, organize some march, or even write a blog post. i dunno.. maybe i'm not victim-y enough for these days.
ReplyDelete*shrugs and thinks we live in 'interesting' times*
The problem is that there is no threat of starvation or ruin so people don't really have to work hard.
DeleteFolks just need to get off their butts and go to work. Less time to complain. Plus, if they were used to working, they would fix their problems instead of complaining about them.
I wrote about a 300 word response but flinched when listening to Bill & Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet talk about eliminating malaria in Africa.
ReplyDeleteI am going to take that as a commentary that there are things more important...
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