[dissident]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZJ1OVCXLCs

The mobs of woke zealots led by BLM and their attack on the "bad" old ways and symbols are a new fanatical religion. As with all other religions, the zealots commit all the crimes. Just because there may be some good aspects to a certain set of beliefs does not justify violent suppression of dissent. We see exactly the sort of Talban-like behaviour on Twitter and other social media. Dare not conform to the religion of woke and you and your family will be threatened with physical violence and your employer will be pressured to lay you off.

BLM and the mobs pulling down and defacing statues (e.g. that of Stevie Ray Vaughan) are criminal zealots. If the peaceful part of the population (the silent majority) sits there and does nothing, it will be living under oppression in short order. Don't delude yourself that this is merely some Rodney King style riots.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', 'h')ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZJ1OVCXLCs

The mobs of woke zealots led by BLM and their attack on the "bad" old ways and symbols are a new fanatical religion. As with all other religions, the zealots commit all the crimes. Just because there may be some good aspects to a certain set of beliefs does not justify violent suppression of dissent. We see exactly the sort of Talban-like behaviour on Twitter and other social media. Dare not conform to the religion of woke and you and your family will be threatened with physical violence and your employer will be pressured to lay you off.

BLM and the mobs pulling down and defacing statues (e.g. that of Stevie Ray Vaughan) are criminal zealots. If the peaceful part of the population (the silent majority) sits there and does nothing, it will be living under oppression in short order. Don't delude yourself that this is merely some Rodney King style riots.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '
')Now, how do you fix it? I don't know. Once people stop acting rationally, that's outside my bailiwick.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '
')Now, how do you fix it? I don't know. Once people stop acting rationally, that's outside my bailiwick.

[jedrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')iden's campaign pledge is that he will bring about "a return to normalcy.

[asg70]

I don't think the world has felt "normal" since before 911, or maybe a little further back, before the dot com bust. Late 90s, waning days of the Clinton presidency. I don't think there's any chance of getting back to that. All we can hope for are partial victories.

[Plantagenet]

I was very happy to read today that when the NBA re-opens the players will have various "woke" slogans on the back of their jerseys.

Its the most glorious example of "virtue signaling" I've ever seen.

I hope the play-by-play announcers actually call the game using by the slogans on the player's back.....so we might hear..."400 years of oppression" is slowly bringing the ball up the court....he passes to "I can't breathe" who take a shot but chokes...."black lives matter" goes up and gets the rebound but then he is fouled hard by "police brutality".....ohmigosh...."police brutality" really clobbered "black lives matter"......a fight starts....."police brutality" is joined by "systematic racism" and they're both pounding on "black lives matter." Where are the ref? Why don't the refs stop the fight? Oh thats right, the NBA players demanded that the refs be defunded.


.....that explains why he chokes in the big games.....

Cheers!

[Plantagenet]

Now the NBA is disappointing me.

They are going to paint "Black Lives Matter" along the SIDES of the basketball court for the finals.

nba-to-paint-black-lives-matter-on-sides-of-courts

What kind of racist BS is that.

The entire court should be painted to say BLACK LIVES MATTER.

Just painting the side of the court doesn't show much commitment to change, IMHO. You aren't going to make much progress towards racial justice if you only paint it down the sides.

If the NBA really cared about social justice then the social justice message would be front and center....and that means painted right there across the middle of the whole basketball court, running the whole length of the court from end to end line.

And another thing is the cheerleaders. Normally each team has cheerleaders and they dance and cavort around especially at halftime. No no no. It would be much more effective as a social justice message if the cheerleaders would just march out to center court, with their fists raised in the air, and then just kneel there. Kneel through the whole half time chanting black lives matter and I can't breathe and saying the names of George Floyd and the other martyrs to police brutality over and over again while the payers take a break a halftime.


No no no. Things have changed. No more dancing. Now cheerleaders are going to kneel all through the halftime with their fists up the air and chant "Black Lives Matter" over and over again.

[Newfie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', 'I') don't think the world has felt "normal" since before 911, or maybe a little further back, before the dot com bust. Late 90s, waning days of the Clinton presidency. I don't think there's any chance of getting back to that. All we can hope for are partial victories.

[ralfy]

Funded by the rich, which also funds the military industrial complex.

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'F')unded by the rich, which also funds the military industrial complex.

[jedrider]

Concerning cultural vandalism, I think history ought to be weighed.

We toppled Saddam's Hussein's statute in Iraq. We ought to be able to take our own medicine IMO.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'C')oncerning cultural vandalism, I think history ought to be weighed.

We toppled Saddam's Hussein's statute in Iraq. We ought to be able to take our own medicine IMO.

[jedrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'C')oncerning cultural vandalism, I think history ought to be weighed.

We toppled Saddam's Hussein's statute in Iraq. We ought to be able to take our own medicine IMO.

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', '
')We get to choose our historical narrative and not let the past choose it for us.

[jedrider]

If I were a Black person (or African-American), I wouldn't want to have to walk pass statutes of Confederate Generals or Presidents.

I say down with them. I would make a choice on history.

No need to destroy them necessarily. There should be a slave museum. Put it there where it belongs.

[jedrider]

Christopher Columbus. Put him in a Colonization Museum where he belongs. Show the 'Indians' being scalped.

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'C')hristopher Columbus. Put him in a Colonization Museum where he belongs. Show the 'Indians' being scalped.

[jedrider]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'C')hristopher Columbus. Put him in a Colonization Museum where he belongs. Show the 'Indians' being scalped.

[Plantagenet]

Now that Richmond is taking down all its giant statues of confederate leaders, the question arises of what to put up in their place. The plinths...the bases..of the statues are huge. It seems a shame to just have the grafitti smeared platforms still there with no statues on them.

I've got an idea.

Why not replace each of the giant statues of Confederate leaders with a statue of one the black martyrs killed by police brutality and systemic racism....

In place of Gen. Stonewall Jackson....a giant statue of Trayvon Martin.

And in the next spot.....a statue of Breona Tayor.

And so on....

Until in the place of honor, the biggest statue of all......

Replace Robert E. Lee with a 100 foot tall statue of GEORGE FLOYD!!!!


This is a photo of the base of the Robert E. Lee statue with George Floyds face projected on it. Imagine how much more fitting and epic it would be to have a 100 foot tall statue of Robert Floyd put up right in Robert E. Lee's place. What better way to honor the man and his life!!!!

Cheers!