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mo' ron wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q7XH8lfGMc

A guy walks through the 9/12 crowd with a "Public Option NOW" sign... a a group of police escorts.

I would love to be able to do that. I wish those tea-baggers would come to my state. I would be there with an even bigger sign.

Was there a black or hispanic in that entire crowd. If there was one I didn't see him/her. But of course if I'm wrong and there was one, that would equate "many", according to res' def.

bedstuy wrote:

Well into the 20th century, at least in the Deep South, Confederate Memorial Day was celebrated as a preference over the Fourth of July... just to show how treasonous they were in a cultural sense.  And as my link states, it's not just race -- South Carolina didn't even want to give women the right to vote and failed to ratify that amendment for another 50 years.

If you used to live in Chapel Hill, then I am sure you are familiar with Monument Avenue.

A whole smurfing stretch of 2 miles that was dedicated to people who fought a war against The United States.

Oh, but they relatively recently erected a monument to Arthur Ashe at the end.



I like how they depict him threatening children with his tennis racket whilst holding their book out of their reach. He must have been a ruthless son of a bitch...

Last edited by Graphic Autist (2009-09-14 5:37 pm)

resedit wrote:

Graphic Autist wrote:

resedit wrote:

No.
Rare implies uncommon.
It is NOT uncommon.

Yes, it is.

I live in Richmond, VA and have NEVER seen a black person wearing a Confederate flag.

"Many" my lily white ass.

I suspect you've just never thought about it.
Next time you see one, perhaps you will.

And then apply that instance to a group of people as being common/"many""? Isn't that a form of racism within itself?

Sorry, you are way off on this one. Credibility is dwindling further and further the more you type.

It appears that many tea party bloggers and conservative websites were distributing a photo from 1997 of the 'Promise Keepers' rally and claiming it depicted the 9/12 rally.

PolitiFact has rated that claim "pants on fire" on its truth-o-meter.

Last edited by bratboy (2009-09-14 6:01 pm)

sturner wrote:

Chickenhawk wrote:

resedit wrote:

I didn't say that.

Just like bratboy inserting [white] into the thread title, you are choosing to make absurd indefensible positions that just aren't the case.

Slavery was on it's way out anyway. It hadn't been gone from the North for very long, and if the confederacy had won their independence, it still would not have lasted long in the south.

The division was NOT just about slavery, as evidenced by slave states that sided with the north.

It was very much about States Rights - which the North wanted to reduce.

Do you call it the "War of Northern Aggression"?

And the States Right that was on the agenda was Slavery. Still reduces to the same thing.

Indeed.

Thus is the central thesis of this thread proven 100% correct.

Sorry, res.

bratboy wrote:

resedit wrote:

I don't give a damn what the anti-defamation league thinks.
I don't ask their permission before thinking.

Just thought perhaps their view--on how insulting such comparisons are to victims of the Nazis--might be something to consider.

Classic example - the Nazi's used propaganda showing respectable citizens and a few fat, poorly dressed, ugly individuals labeled "The Complainers". Very effective, you don't want to be part of that group!

Exact same tactic the left (particularly Pelosi) is using now to depict the tea party.

"Classic example?"  "Exact same?"

You're comparing Pelosi's sharing of her views regarding Tea Parties with "nazi propaganda?"

How in the world do you put the two in the same sentence, let alone insist that they're 'exactly the same?'  That's outrageous.

Actually, Ronald Reagan used this technique exhaustively in his governorship campaigns, hiring actors to play the degenerate wave of homeless people that would flood our welfare state...so he slashed all the state welfare programs, which resulted in a flood of homeless people.

As for Pelosi...she's just stating her views, I haven't seen any propaganda films made with actors.

I almost forgot about that claim in all the ridiculousness.  OMGNAZIPROPAGANDA.

Thank god the Republicans never criticized liberals or liberal protesters during the Bush Administration!

Okay. Thread re-opened.

Bear in mind that the goal of Minithink is to discuss political issues. That means debate using arguments. Not lobbing insults at other posters.

Enjoy and behave.

.tsooJ