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Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« on: August 15, 2017, 12:25:08 am »
Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina

 By Brandon Carter - 08/14/17 07:35 PM EDT


Video posted to Twitter shows protestors surrounding the statue and chanting “No KKK! No fascists! USA” as several protestors appear to pull down the statue with a rope.
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WNCN reports the statue was dedicated in Durham in 1924 and was located in front of a local government building.

The statue represented a soldier who fought in the Civil War and an inscription on the front read “The Confederate States of America.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/346557-protesters-topple-confederate-statue-in-north-carolina
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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2017, 12:27:04 am »
People are beingstupid.  When people act stupid they get hurt.

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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2017, 12:27:18 am »
Fox just showed it...disgusting.
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« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2017, 12:29:01 am »
Talibanning of History continues.
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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2017, 12:29:35 am »
Some really brave people, kicking a statue.  I would like to see them try that with Civil War reenactment folks.
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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2017, 12:31:30 am »
Ain't it funny how liberals want to get rid of all aspects of the Confederacy and slavery, but seem to want to leave the Democrat party that supported it alone.
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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2017, 12:31:40 am »
I hope that girl kicking the thing at the end broke her foot like the moron she is. What the hell does she think she is accomplishing?
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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2017, 12:33:04 am »
I hope that girl kicking the thing at the end broke her foot like the moron she is. What the hell does she think she is accomplishing?

Doesn't matter, it's all about the feels.

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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2017, 12:33:09 am »
And how the hell were there NOT cops there to stop it when they saw the strap go up???

Why don't we see immediate arrests for the destruction of public property?

These folks are the real nazis. Next up - book burnings!
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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2017, 12:33:14 am »
Talibanning of History continues.

What's the goal here?  Is it to remove anything from the era of slavery or the civil war?  (Serious question)

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« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2017, 12:35:24 am »
What's the goal here?  Is it to remove anything from the era of slavery or the civil war?  (Serious question)

Apparently...Rush said they will burn all the copies of Gone With The Wind next *****rollingeyes*****
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« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2017, 12:36:13 am »

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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2017, 12:36:16 am »
   Not trying to jack the thread but the @edpc comment brought up a rather interesting paradox (for me anyway).

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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2017, 12:36:27 am »
Stone Mountain is the Big Prize. They want to blow that up like the Taliban.

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« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2017, 12:38:11 am »
   Not trying to jack the thread but


Sure you are.  Don't be coy.

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« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2017, 12:39:13 am »
Stone Mountain is the Big Prize. They want to blow that up like the Taliban.

The good old boys will have the high ground if they try. 

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« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2017, 12:41:13 am »
The good old boys will have the high ground if they try.
If people are shot in the attempt, that I will cheer.
The bulldozing of history is disgusting.
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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2017, 12:41:28 am »
The good old boys will have the high ground if they try.

I believe I might like to witness that.

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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #18 on: August 15, 2017, 12:43:29 am »
   Not trying to jack the thread but the @edpc comment brought up a rather interesting paradox (for me anyway).



How was that a paradox? Those men fought their way into Baghdad to do that. More than likely they fought remnant Baathists, Fedayeen, and AQ in Iraq elements for months or years, after.  The cowards in the video are really fierce with the inanimate.
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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #19 on: August 15, 2017, 12:47:29 am »
Apparently...Rush said they will burn all the copies of Gone With The Wind next *****rollingeyes*****

I actually caught that segment of his show today in the car @mystery-ak .  He was citing examples of what would need to happen to eliminate and rewrite the history of the South. He mentioned Gone with the Wind as one example since it presented the South as a successful and cultured society.

I think this whole segment was Rush at his reductio ad absurdum best.

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Re: Protesters topple Confederate statue in North Carolina
« Reply #20 on: August 15, 2017, 12:47:56 am »
I'd like to see them try to take off the confederate flag on this black guy's pickup truck here in town.

This is despicable, I hope they rebuild such a monument.

In Ukraine, they've pulled statues of Lenin down but I don't see the parallel as in the other above.

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« Reply #21 on: August 15, 2017, 12:48:01 am »
Here in Atlanta, there is a stretch of I-285 passing through Cobb County that was renamed for a local racist politician Billy McKinney.  And there is a Federal building downtown named after the Senator who led the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Not one of these leftists is calling for those names to be removed.  Go figure.
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« Reply #22 on: August 15, 2017, 12:49:39 am »
Fox just showed it...disgusting.

Mob rule.  I seem to remember seeing it somewhere before.  Berlin 1934 perhaps?
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« Reply #23 on: August 15, 2017, 12:52:11 am »
Here in Atlanta, there is a stretch of I-285 passing through Cobb County that was renamed for a local racist politician Billy McKinney.  And there is a Federal building downtown named after the Senator who led the filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Not one of these leftists is calling for those names to be removed.  Go figure.

As others have mentioned in different threads, you can't throw a rock anywhere in W VA without hitting something with Robert KKK Byrd's name on it.  Where's the outrage?
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