Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[DGuller]

Funny thing is that most people approving of this poster are quite happy to have Russia involved in the politics of this country.  Actually, that's not funny at all.

[Valmy]

Act like somebody from Florida? No thanks.

[Eddie Teach]

Act like somebody from Florida? No thanks.

Florida and Texas ain't much different.

[Valmy]

Act like somebody from Florida? No thanks.

Florida and Texas ain't much different.

Now that is just uncalled for.

[Oexmelin]

Btw, here's Mitch Landrieu's speech about the removal of statues and monuments of the Confederacy:

You see — New Orleans is truly a city of many nations, a melting pot, a bubbling caldron of many cultures. There is no other place quite like it in the world that so eloquently exemplifies the uniquely American motto: e pluribus unum — out of many we are one. But there are also other truths about our city that we must confront. New Orleans was America's largest slave market: a port where hundreds of thousands of souls were bought, sold and shipped up the Mississippi River to lives of forced labor of misery of rape, of torture. America was the place where nearly 4000 of our fellow citizens were lynched, 540 alone in Louisiana; where the courts enshrined 'separate but equal'; where Freedom riders coming to New Orleans were beaten to a bloody pulp. So when people say to me that the monuments in question are history, well what I just described is real history as well, and it is the searing truth.

And it immediately begs the questions, why there are no slave ship monuments, no prominent markers on public land to remember the lynchings or the slave blocks; nothing to remember this long chapter of our lives; the pain, the sacrifice, the shame... all of it happening on the soil of New Orleans. So for those self-appointed defenders of history and the monuments, they are eerily silent on what amounts to this historical malfeasance, a lie by omission. There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

It's a good speech.

Full speech here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/opinion/mitch-landrieus-speech-transcript.html?_r=0

[garbon]

Yeah, really moving speech.

[The Brain]

Btw, here's Mitch Landrieu's speech about the removal of statues and monuments of the Confederacy:

You see — New Orleans is truly a city of many nations, a melting pot, a bubbling caldron of many cultures. There is no other place quite like it in the world that so eloquently exemplifies the uniquely American motto: e pluribus unum — out of many we are one. But there are also other truths about our city that we must confront. New Orleans was America's largest slave market: a port where hundreds of thousands of souls were bought, sold and shipped up the Mississippi River to lives of forced labor of misery of rape, of torture. America was the place where nearly 4000 of our fellow citizens were lynched, 540 alone in Louisiana; where the courts enshrined 'separate but equal'; where Freedom riders coming to New Orleans were beaten to a bloody pulp. So when people say to me that the monuments in question are history, well what I just described is real history as well, and it is the searing truth.

And it immediately begs the questions, why there are no slave ship monuments, no prominent markers on public land to remember the lynchings or the slave blocks; nothing to remember this long chapter of our lives; the pain, the sacrifice, the shame... all of it happening on the soil of New Orleans. So for those self-appointed defenders of history and the monuments, they are eerily silent on what amounts to this historical malfeasance, a lie by omission. There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

It's a good speech.

Full speech here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/opinion/mitch-landrieus-speech-transcript.html?_r=0

My impression is that people who loudly defend Confederacy-related monuments think that the monuments they are defending are celebrating their subjects.

[Syt]

Btw, here's Mitch Landrieu's speech about the removal of statues and monuments of the Confederacy:

Facebook to the refute:

[garbon]

I guess the retort, in same vein, would be and only .000000000001% of white people were part of the Confederacy so why you so mad bro?

[The Minsky Moment]

Funny thing is that most people approving of this poster are quite happy to have Russia involved in the politics of this country.  Actually, that's not funny at all.

Nor is it funny that they take up the cause of traitors who levied war against the United States.
Patriotism is all fine and dandy unless then there are liberals to bashed.  Then the country can go F itself.

[Valmy]

Btw, here's Mitch Landrieu's speech about the removal of statues and monuments of the Confederacy:

Facebook to the refute:

Wait....as in in the history of the world? I sure hope it is lower than that

I don't see anybody blaming the Bulgarians or the Estonians (presuming they count as white, I can never tell who is white) for American slavery so I don't quite get the point of that meme but then memes are supposed to act on emotions and not make sense.

[Valmy]

I guess the retort, in same vein, would be and only .000000000001% of white people were part of the Confederacy so why you so mad bro?

Right?

Anyway it is not the Confederate monuments around the Texas Capitol that I find most annoying. It is the propaganda they have printed on them. If it was just 'hey once Texans died fighting for the Confederacy how about that?' Instead it is most like 'In memory of the heroes who died fighting for freedom against tyranny's jackboot.'

[Berkut]

I guess the retort, in same vein, would be and only .000000000001% of white people were part of the Confederacy so why you so mad bro?

Right?

Anyway it is not the Confederate monuments around the Texas Capitol that I find most annoying. It is the propaganda they have printed on them. If it was just 'hey once Texans died fighting for the Confederacy how about that?' Instead it is most like 'In memory of the heroes who died fighting for freedom against tyranny's jackboot.'

The amazing part is how the people who think that are not even slightly cognizant of the incredible irony of the statement.

I mean, they aren't even aware of the irony, but reject it - they are completely and entirely nonplussed by the idea that the role of "tyranny's jackboot" might be already taken by the party in that conflict that was fighting to keep owning other human beings as property.

[grumbler]

Nor is it funny that they take up the cause of traitors who levied war against the United States.
Patriotism is all fine and dandy unless then there are liberals to bashed.  Then the country can go F itself.

What is funny isn't that they support the greatest American traitors, it is that they support the greatest American losers.

[The Brain]

What is funny is pies in faces and people falling over.