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17 Sep 2017, 9:42 pm

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The local county in Dallas have made a sensible decision in the interest of maintaining civil law and order to remove such an offensive statue.

It may be a "lump of concrete" but it dedicates/glorifies what Robert E Lee fought for which is offensive in this modern era. Racists who want public monuments can "happily" visit museums where they can view other creepy things like KKK white sheets and pictures of lynchings which were a hallmark of the era they yearn for...

Then you should remove your offensive lumps of concrete.Australia's white invaders treated (and still do )the Aborginal people terrible.What right do you have to b***h about our race relations?Its like the pot calling the kettle black.Stop complaining to us about our mistreatment of the slaves,you all were just as awful to the natives that inhabitanted that land long before your lily white asses showed up.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... rethinking


The native people of Australia are actually in the same position as native people in your country. What is different is that Australia didn't have a slave driven economy, our colonists had to do all the work in building this nation fromthe ground up.

Not all of America had a economy based on slavery,not every old building here was built by a slave,and not all slaves were black in the beginning of this nation.Many white people indentured themselves to come to America.You are splitting hairs.You used your Natives like slaves.We just infected ours with diseases and sent them to starve on reservations.You all found a free source of slaves,ones you didn't have to purchase,you just went and snatched them up.After all wh***y had more important things for them to do than to sit around in the desert.


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17 Sep 2017, 11:04 pm

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Me pretending to be an intellectual? Cupcake, let me let you in on a little secret. I'm a conservative, and as such we take great pleasure in beating up intellectuals, not in emulating them.

Know your enemy


this 'conservatism' seems more aimed at feeding the trolls, btw
any sockpuppet's double?


Gotta feed 'em to keep 'em around for the lulz.
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17 Sep 2017, 11:07 pm

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I'm a conservative, and as such we take great pleasure in beating up intellectuals, not in emulating them.


ROFL! :D which translates to conservatives are not intellectuals

Thanks for the clarification raptor


Well think about it; aren't all conservatives Nazis according to the left?
And don't Nazi's, past and present, resent intellectualism?
Not much to clarify, really...


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18 Sep 2017, 1:45 am

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You used your Natives like slaves.You all found a free source of slaves,ones you didn't have to purchase,you just went and snatched them up

You are referring to the practice of "blackbirding" where farmers in Queensland abducted Melanesian islanders and forced them into indentured work as sugar cane cutters. I don't think you can compare the scale of this practice to the millions of Africans forced into slavery where conditions were far worse...



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18 Sep 2017, 1:48 am

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I'm a conservative, and as such we take great pleasure in beating up intellectuals, not in emulating them.


ROFL! :D which translates to conservatives are not intellectuals

Thanks for the clarification raptor


Well think about it; aren't all conservatives Nazis according to the left?
And don't Nazi's, past and present, resent intellectualism?
Not much to clarify, really...


Jospeh Mengele and Albert Speer were nazis and intellectuals, but for the most part a lot of books were burned in bonfires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings



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18 Sep 2017, 9:45 am

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You used your Natives like slaves.You all found a free source of slaves,ones you didn't have to purchase,you just went and snatched them up

You are referring to the practice of "blackbirding" where farmers in Queensland abducted Melanesian islanders and forced them into indentured work as sugar cane cutters. I don't think you can compare the scale of this practice to the millions of Africans forced into slavery where conditions were far worse...

You didn't just use people for sugar cane,and you kept using them till 1970.
Own up to the fact your culture is just as guilty as ours.
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/news-an ... muhg3.html


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18 Sep 2017, 4:06 pm

I would build a hitler statue in my front yard to make up :lol:



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18 Sep 2017, 4:43 pm

Misslizard wrote:
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You used your Natives like slaves.You all found a free source of slaves,ones you didn't have to purchase,you just went and snatched them up

You are referring to the practice of "blackbirding" where farmers in Queensland abducted Melanesian islanders and forced them into indentured work as sugar cane cutters. I don't think you can compare the scale of this practice to the millions of Africans forced into slavery where conditions were far worse...

You didn't just use people for sugar cane,and you kept using them till 1970.
Own up to the fact your culture is just as guilty as ours.
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/news-an ... muhg3.html


Again (while the practice was unacceptable) it pertained to aboriginals of mixed race who were taken away under the misguided guise of integrating them into Australian society. I don't think you can compare the scale of the enterprise (however unpalatable) to slavery in the US and South America.



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18 Sep 2017, 5:42 pm

/\Oh BS.Salami is still salami no matter how thin you slice it.


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20 Sep 2017, 1:43 am

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/\Oh BS.Salami is still salami no matter how thin you slice it.

Yes but putting it in perspective it's like comparing a slice of salami with an entire pigsty (which is not a bad metaphor for the historic practice of slavery in the US)



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20 Sep 2017, 10:59 am

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/\Oh BS.Salami is still salami no matter how thin you slice it.

Yes but putting it in perspective it's like comparing a slice of salami with an entire pigsty (which is not a bad metaphor for the historic practice of slavery in the US)

We abolished slavery in the 1800's,yet you still kept abusing the aboriginal people till 1970. :roll: We may have had more,but you kept it up longer.And you didn't want the world to know what you did.
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2001/01 ... d-genocide


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20 Sep 2017, 4:32 pm

Misslizard wrote:
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/\Oh BS.Salami is still salami no matter how thin you slice it.

Yes but putting it in perspective it's like comparing a slice of salami with an entire pigsty (which is not a bad metaphor for the historic practice of slavery in the US)

We abolished slavery in the 1800's,yet you still kept abusing the aboriginal people till 1970. :roll: We may have had more,but you kept it up longer.And you didn't want the world to know what you did.
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2001/01 ... d-genocide

Lets put it this way, aborigines and African Americans weren't recognised as human beings till the mid 1960s, that's not something to pursue a "oneupmanship" over



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20 Sep 2017, 6:18 pm

cyberdad wrote:
Misslizard wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
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/\Oh BS.Salami is still salami no matter how thin you slice it.

Yes but putting it in perspective it's like comparing a slice of salami with an entire pigsty (which is not a bad metaphor for the historic practice of slavery in the US)

We abolished slavery in the 1800's,yet you still kept abusing the aboriginal people till 1970. :roll: We may have had more,but you kept it up longer.And you didn't want the world to know what you did.
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2001/01 ... d-genocide

Lets put it this way, aborigines and African Americans weren't recognised as human beings till the mid 1960s, that's not something to pursue a "oneupmanship" over

Of course not, but stop commenting on how bad Americas's past and present race relations are when your nation's behavior was just as reprehensible.Have you pulled your Aborgine massacring old white dude statues down yet?


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21 Sep 2017, 1:50 am

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Of course not, but stop commenting on how bad Americas's past and present race relations are when your nation's behavior was just as reprehensible.Have you pulled your Aborgine massacring old white dude statues down yet?

As a matter of fact we have addressed these issues one by one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Brown



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21 Sep 2017, 9:55 am

cyberdad wrote:
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Of course not, but stop commenting on how bad Americas's past and present race relations are when your nation's behavior was just as reprehensible.Have you pulled your Aborgine massacring old white dude statues down yet?

As a matter of fact we have addressed these issues one by one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Brown

So are we.


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27 Sep 2017, 6:53 pm

Those who have said that black statues should now come-down----though it's not in the same vein, exactly----you just might get your wish:

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/news/pe ... vew4arzz73

A petition for the removal of the Ray Lewis statue, outside Ravens' Stadium, has gotten more than 25,000 signatures. The call for the removal of the statue, is in response to Ray Lewis not standing for the national anthem, Sunday.

SportingNews.com wrote:
After warning Colin Kaepernick to keep quiet about social activism earlier this year, ​former Ravens great Ray Lewis knelt during the playing of the national anthem Sunday with current members of the team.

Lewis said Tuesday his decision to kneel on both knees was to "simply honor God in the midst of chaos." He was criticized for the anthem demonstration by both Kaepernick supporters and those who believe Lewis and the Ravens were disrespecting the flag.

The latter launched a petition Sunday to remove Lewis' statue from M&T Bank Stadium, saying on Change.org that kneeling during the anthem is "disrespectful, regardless of what you are protesting."

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