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Today is 'Confederate Heroes Day' in Texas

Post by amused » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:43 am

It's a paid holiday for Texas employees to celebrate....what? The fact that the south waged a war against civil rights? When three days earlier we celebrated the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King. In some years, both holidays will fall on the same day. Talk about an anachronism...

But I did enjoy the day off. :dance:

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Post by Robert_S » Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:10 am

It was about honoring those who died protecting the sanctity of other people's property.
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Post by Seth » Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:34 am

Can we hear some opprobrium about the people who lionize Che, or celebrate Communist Worker's Day now?
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Re: Today is 'Confederate Heroes Day' in Texas

Post by JimC » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:51 am

Nathan Bedford Forrest would be pleased...
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Re: Today is 'Confederate Heroes Day' in Texas

Post by Robert_S » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:54 am

Seth wrote:Can we hear some opprobrium about the people who lionize Che, or celebrate Communist Worker's Day now?
Che killed off all those kangaroos :cry: But what's wrong with making the communists work for a day?
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Post by amused » Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:43 pm

Robert_S wrote:It was about honoring those who died protecting the sanctity of other people's property.
I'm not sure my Black co-workers will appreciate the revisionist history, but I'll see what they say. :tup:
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Post by Tyrannical » Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:48 pm

I hope you had a pleasant Robert E. Lee day.
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Re: Today is 'Confederate Heroes Day' in Texas

Post by Tyrannical » Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:50 pm

JimC wrote:Nathan Bedford Forrest would be pleased...
I'm surprised you know who that is :ask:
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Re: Today is 'Confederate Heroes Day' in Texas

Post by Robert_S » Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:24 pm

amused wrote:
Robert_S wrote:It was about honoring those who died protecting the sanctity of other people's property.
I'm not sure my Black co-workers will appreciate the revisionist history, but I'll see what they say. :tup:
It's not revisionist, but I am being snarky at the descendants those poor white trash who died for the economic well being of the plantation owners.

Saying it's about state's rights is though, that's revisionist.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: Today is 'Confederate Heroes Day' in Texas

Post by Svartalf » Fri Jan 20, 2012 6:48 pm

How about being snarky at the poor white trash that died for the economic well being of the carpet baggers?
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Re: Today is 'Confederate Heroes Day' in Texas

Post by Robert_S » Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:24 pm

Svartalf wrote:How about being snarky at the poor white trash that died for the economic well being of the carpet baggers?
:{D :{D :{D
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: Today is 'Confederate Heroes Day' in Texas

Post by amused » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:16 pm

Robert_S wrote:
amused wrote:
Robert_S wrote:It was about honoring those who died protecting the sanctity of other people's property.
I'm not sure my Black co-workers will appreciate the revisionist history, but I'll see what they say. :tup:
It's not revisionist, but I am being snarky at the descendants those poor white trash who died for the economic well being of the plantation owners.

Saying it's about state's rights is though, that's revisionist.
Ah, got it. Yeah, I thought the state's rights bullshit is where you were pointing. My bad.
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Re: Today is 'Confederate Heroes Day' in Texas

Post by JimC » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:45 pm

Tyrannical wrote:
JimC wrote:Nathan Bedford Forrest would be pleased...
I'm surprised you know who that is :ask:
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Re: Today is 'Confederate Heroes Day' in Texas

Post by Gallstones » Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:16 pm

Despite the politics, some of those people were heroic in the circumstances they found themselves in.
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