The Whole Statue Issue.....

Pretty sure the rage and frustration on both sides is about more than just the statues. No one really pays attention to those statues anyway. As long as they don't replace them with some crazy modern art, it doesn't affect me. Besides, The Greeks did it, the Romans did it, the Christians did it, the British did it, the Germans did it, the Russians did it, the Iraqis did it, Isis did it, and the aliens will do it too.
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Free speech, and majority rules. The majority of folks don't care or want them removed.
Originally Posted by grean
You really need to revisit the purposes and legal basis for the First Amendment ... "the majority" does not dictate the content of speech. In fact that is exactly why it was made Amendment No.1.

So, now you want to rewrite 250+ years of SCOTUS jurisprudence.

Or do you want to burn the United States Supreme Court Building?

You're worse than Hitler!
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No one really pays attention to those statues anyway. Originally Posted by Sleepy69
Just brain-damaged, immature retardos who lost the 2016 election want them removed and "out of sight" so they won' be "annoyed" by them.



They weren't going to use the library anyway. Books are useless to them!
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  • 08-18-2017, 10:30 AM
You really need to revisit the purposes and legal basis for the First Amendment ... "the majority" does not dictate the content of speech. In fact that is exactly why it was made Amendment No.1.

So, now you want to rewrite 250+ years of SCOTUS jurisprudence.

Or do you want to burn the United States Supreme Court Building?

You're worse than Hitler! Originally Posted by LexusLover
Yes you KKK lovers have a right to spew your hate just like that Kansas Church does to spew their hate a military funerals. You support that too , right,
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Agreed. They should be in a museum, as part of exhibits that tell the story behind them, both during then Civil War and at the time when they were erected.
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Just brain-damaged, immature retardos who lost the 2016 election want them removed and "out of sight" so they won' be "annoyed" by them.



They weren't going to use the library anyway. Books are useless to them! Originally Posted by LexusLover
You need to Step the fuck off, LLEphantMan.

Your rhetoric is typical of your hateful, ignorant views.

Name-calling as always.

You never answered my question about the alt-right, KKK and neo-Nazis.

That means you refuse to condemn their hatred.

Nobody will be surprised that you're at the top of the list.
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SPEAKING of brain-damaged, immature retardos who lost the 2016 election ....

....who have little use for books except to start fires.[/QUOTE]

The two resident immature retardos just posted.
These should not be in a museum. They should be where they are and more information should be added to continue to tell history accurately. For example, civil war led to freedom for slaves, civil rights legislation passed by conservatives from the north led to complete voting rights. ETC ETC ETC.....

Talk about the best attributes of the USA, American exceptionalism, and an integrated society. Fuck the divisiveness.
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Fuck the divisiveness? Agreed.

Then remove the things dividing us.

Keep the statues. Remove Twitler. I'll take that trade.
Removing the statues, removes history. That makes you a book burner and anti-intellectual. Get consistent in your thought process.
These should not be in a museum. They should be where they are and more information should be added to continue to tell history accurately. For example, civil war led to freedom for slaves, civil rights legislation passed by conservatives from the north led to complete voting rights. ETC ETC ETC.....

Talk about the best attributes of the USA, American exceptionalism, and an integrated society. Fuck the divisiveness. Originally Posted by johnjay


Like how the spying got - World Wide Web, Mobile Phone network setup, and Layer Windows Insulation and lots more great ideas from thinking outside the box ... and the terrorism poisoning to cover-up the thief of the money and firewall
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  • 08-18-2017, 11:12 AM
You really need to revisit the purposes and legal basis for the First Amendment ... "the majority" does not dictate the content of speech. In fact that is exactly why it was made Amendment No.1.

So, now you want to rewrite 250+ years of SCOTUS jurisprudence.

Or do you want to burn the United States Supreme Court Building?

You're worse than Hitler! Originally Posted by LexusLover
If the majority of people were okay with certain inappropriate sexual content profanity on bill boards or business signs, cities wouldn't forbid profanity on bill boards or signs. However, either stating government interest, secondary effect, or simply aesthetic reason in so cases. (The cases are out there and canot be Google so I'm not going to cite them.)

What is profane, obscene or inappropriate is determined largly by the majority opinion of the public. Is it not?

As time goes by, that changes. Today, adult stores have large ads up all over the metroplex. There was a time when the public wouldn't tolerate such signs.

"Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" was a HUGE FUCKING DEAL. Mr. Gable, for shame! You couldn't say "damn" in a movie before that. There was a statute against it.



So no, I'm not trying to rewrite anything. I'm using what is written.

This statues removal, however isn't a free speech issue. It's simply the majority of people want them gone or just don't care.
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You are right. There are some who do not want these statues removed and they aren't racist. However, it would seem they are a minority. Free speech, and majority rules. The majority of folks don't care or want them removed.

I'm okay with anything that fucks with racists. That's my narrative. Racists are idiotic, illogical cowards. They waste their lives with hate. Originally Posted by grean
They are not a minority. 62% of Americans want them to stay.
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  • 08-18-2017, 11:22 AM
Removing the statues, removes history. That makes you a book burner and anti-intellectual. Get consistent in your thought process. Originally Posted by johnjay
The fact of the matter is that if it is on Federal proterty, State , County , City or private it is up to those entities as to what they want to do with them.

Not the NAACP, KKK or neo-nazis.

Or you or me.

Not sure why you have a problem with that.

In fact if the proper entity wants to destroy them instead of a museum...I'm fine with that.

I only feel i have a voice in Federal and the local municipality in which I live
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  • 08-18-2017, 11:23 AM
They are not a minority. 62% of Americans want them to stay. Originally Posted by bambino
Look you fucking loon... a local municipality can do what the f*** it wants not what the majority of America thinks as long as it's legal