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A Question for the Revisionists Erasing Texas History » The Old School Patriot

Therapists around Washington, D.C., are noticing a sharp increase in patients describing symptoms of what has been called Trump Derangement Syndrome.


For those who are normal minded, you know you stupid fks of this free country are mental lunatics who need to be shipped out of our beuatufil nation.
You belong in N. Korea, China or any other country that tells you how to function daily. Oh and you only get paid pennies.

Reality might wake you morons up.

Makes you wonder how many can or will even answer while living in reality that is.

 

[Stratford57]

There is a saying: those who don't honor the past DO NOT have future.

What's more valuable: the history of your country or political correctness? How those two can even be compared...

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

You didn't realize that most of our American generals during the Revolutionary War were British officers during the French and Indian Wars, George Washington included?

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

You didn't realize that most of our American generals during the Revolutionary War were British officers during the French and Indian Wars, George Washington included?

You didn't realize that you don't understand a word I said..so I will try it again -- Why are there no statues of Cornwallis?

Now are you going to answer the question of keep deflecting

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

You didn't realize that most of our American generals during the Revolutionary War were British officers during the French and Indian Wars, George Washington included?

You didn't realize that you don't understand a word I said..so I will try it again -- Why are there no statues of Cornwallis?

Now are you going to answer the question of keep deflecting

Oh, I understood exactly what you said. Your question just did not elicit the expected response, and that would be your fault.

Nowm you have a specific questions, which requires an answer.

Cornwallis was not an honorable man and deserved no statues. He couldn't even surrender to Washington like a man.

 

[dave p]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

These statues already exist. No one wants to erect new ones.

 

[BlackFlag]

I haven’t heard a single thing about this Austin renaming other than conservatives shitting themselves about it. But you say we’re the ones with the problem?

 

[Pogo]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

You didn't realize that most of our American generals during the Revolutionary War were British officers during the French and Indian Wars, George Washington included?

You didn't realize that you don't understand a word I said..so I will try it again -- Why are there no statues of Cornwallis?

Now are you going to answer the question of keep deflecting

Oooh! Oooh! Mistah Kotter!


---- Because Cornwallis didn't have a UDC running around erecting monuments to sell a Lost Cause history revisionism.

(/sits down smugly)

 

[Pogo]

A Question for the Revisionists Erasing Texas History » The Old School Patriot

Therapists around Washington, D.C., are noticing a sharp increase in patients describing symptoms of what has been called Trump Derangement Syndrome.


For those who are normal minded, you know you stupid fks of this free country are mental lunatics who need to be shipped out of our beuatufil nation.
You belong in N. Korea, China or any other country that tells you how to function daily. Oh and you only get paid pennies.

Reality might wake you morons up.

Makes you wonder how many can or will even answer while living in reality that is.

---- So the OP who still doesn't know how to form plurals in English links a page that can't be quoted --- wonder why --- from the irrepressibly lunatic Allen West who starts out crying the blues about having stood at a statue of Robert E. Lee and now the meanies want to take it down....

---- apparently oblivious to the fact that Robert E. Lee himself would have, and did, want exactly that.

Can't make these drones up.

 

[Tax Man]

A Question for the Revisionists Erasing Texas History » The Old School Patriot

Therapists around Washington, D.C., are noticing a sharp increase in patients describing symptoms of what has been called Trump Derangement Syndrome.


For those who are normal minded, you know you stupid fks of this free country are mental lunatics who need to be shipped out of our beuatufil nation.
You belong in N. Korea, China or any other country that tells you how to function daily. Oh and you only get paid pennies.

Reality might wake you morons up.

Makes you wonder how many can or will even answer while living in reality that is.

In Texas, it's less Jefferson, more McCarthy

By Daniel Ruth, Times Correspondent
In Print: Friday, May 28, 2010


Let's see if we have this straight. U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy, who ruined untold innocent lives as a besotted red-baiting vigilante, was a peach of a fellow. Check. The words of the treasonous Jefferson Davis should be held in the same esteem as Abraham Lincoln's. Got it. And Thomas Jefferson, one of the fathers of the country in more ways than one, couldn't hold Ronald Reagan's teleprompter. 10-4.

No, you haven't entered some surreal parallel universe of 10-gallon Mad Hatters, just the tea-swilling, bloomer-wadded, Bible-thumping wonderland of the Texas public school system, which seems hell-bent on turning out illiterate students of history at a faster rate than the BP oil rig gusher.

In recent days the Texas Board of Education has approved a number of changes to the next generation of propaganda unwitting Lone Star State public school students will be expected to swallow in their alleged history classes if they expect to graduate from the Tumbleweed Republic's re-education camp system.

Among some of the historical hooey the school board wants to inflict on students: Joe McCarthy's communist witch hunts of the 1950s were simply wonderful; the speeches of Confederate President Jefferson Davis should be studied alongside Lincoln's; and Confederate generals should be studied as American heroes.

At the same time, the new hysterical historical fiddle-faddle dilutes the importance of the civil rights and antiwar movements. It plays down the contributions of Martin Luther King while playing up such figures as Phyllis Schlafly, Jerry Falwell and Newt Gingrich.

It must be cocktail time somewhere!

But wait! There's more. The slave trade, which eventually led to the Civil War, will henceforth be referred to as the Atlantic Triangular Trade period. And yes, you knew this was coming: Students will have a choice between the "theory" of evolution and the ever-popular wizard-in-the-sky concept of creationism.

And just to make sure all the right-wing knots were property cinched, the board eliminated cultural studies of such things as hip-hop, the genocidal treatment of American Indians or references to the Ku Klux Klan. Well if you're going to turn your state's education system into a virtual redneck madrassa, you might as well go all the way.

It's probably not too late for the Texas Board of Education to recast the Holocaust as a mere misunderstanding of train schedules gone horribly awry, or the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas as simply the result of an errant shooting range gunshot; or to declare that even though Reagan never saw combat in World War II, his performance in Hellcats of the Navy (even though it wasn't made until 1957) really turned the tide against the Axis powers.

To be sure, if the state of Texas desires to create a student body that is more delusional about their country's history than North Korea's Kim Jong Il, then the public who elected these ayatollahs of history pretty much get what they deserve.

However, with nearly 5 million students, textbook decisions made by the Texas board on ideological purity ultimately impact the textbook decisions of other states.

Or put another way, because Texas is opting to impose demagoguery over reality upon its students, it is possible Florida parents could well have little Timmy coming home from school and observing: "Mummy, did you know the Civil War was fought because those big meanies in the North wouldn't let the South sing Dixie?"

While there is no shortage of insanity associated with the Texas board's time travel to the Heritage Foundation's answer to Brigadoon, the move to downplay the contributions of Jefferson, one of our greatest presidents, would seem to be among the most egregious.

Jefferson's treatment appears to have a great deal to with his support of the separation of church and state, articulated originally in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and later expanded upon in a 1802 letter the third president wrote in which he emphasized the importance of maintaining a "wall of separation of between church and state."

And oh yes, Jefferson had an eye for the well-turned ankle, especially among his slave holdings. Think of him as sort of the colonial period's answer to Warren Beatty — in a three-cornered hat.

So since the Board of Education couldn't figure out a way around Jefferson's own words, they downgraded him in favor of the star of Bedtime for Bonzo.

This doesn't even rise to the level of revisionist history. It's a smarmy insult to the citizens and students of Texas (and possibly the rest of the country) that suggests a gaggle of fundamentalist neoconservatives don't trust the public they serve to make discerning judgments based on historical facts written by responsible scholars.

What could we call an example of history repeating itself? Academic McCarthyism? After all, no two historical bedfellows ever deserved each other more than the addled Tailgunner Joe and the Texas Board of Education.

[Last modified: May 27, 2010 07:13 PM]

Copyright 2010 St. Petersburg Times

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I haven’t heard a single thing about this Austin renaming other than conservatives shitting themselves about it. But you say we’re the ones with the problem?

Maybe because you haven't looked....
Might I suggest a simple Google search in your quest for enlightenment?

 

[JOSweetHeart]

There is a saying: those who don't honor the past DO NOT have future.

AMEN!!!

God bless you and the families of those who are not here anymore always!!!

Holly

 

[bodecea]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

You didn't realize that most of our American generals during the Revolutionary War were British officers during the French and Indian Wars, George Washington included?

He was a colonel....and a pretty bad one too.

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

These statues already exist. No one wants to erect new ones.

Again -- you keep deflecting

Why are there NO STATUES of Cornwallis??

Those statues that you claim already existed, were erected because of racism, PERIOD -- WHY???

because if there is anything that can get certain white people to identify with the side that lost a war against the United States -- it is hating black people....

I also find it funny how these revisionist racists never mention the fact that Robert E Lee himself was against confederate statues..


but they don't care what he thought because it wasn't really about honoring him as it was about sending a message to blacks who thought Re-Construction was an opportunity to set things right...

 

[dave p]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

These statues already exist. No one wants to erect new ones.

Again -- you keep deflecting

Why are there NO STATUES of Cornwallis??

Those statues that you claim already existed, were erected because of racism, PERIOD -- WHY???

because if there is anything that can get certain white people to identify with the side that lost a war against the United States -- it is hating black people....

I also find it funny how these revisionist racists never mention the fact that Robert E Lee himself was against confederate statues..


but they don't care what he thought because it wasn't really about honoring him as it was about sending a message to blacks who thought Re-Construction was an opportunity to set things right...

I am not deflecting. Why would America have erected a statue to Cornwallis? I simply corrected you. You have an overblown view of the importance of black people in the daily thinking of a white person. Most white people don't even think about race. Your victimhood is pathetic. Those statues weren't only erected because of racism. Who really cares what Robert E. Lee thought?

 

[dave p]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

These statues already exist. No one wants to erect new ones.

Again -- you keep deflecting

Why are there NO STATUES of Cornwallis??

Those statues that you claim already existed, were erected because of racism, PERIOD -- WHY???

because if there is anything that can get certain white people to identify with the side that lost a war against the United States -- it is hating black people....

I also find it funny how these revisionist racists never mention the fact that Robert E Lee himself was against confederate statues..


but they don't care what he thought because it wasn't really about honoring him as it was about sending a message to blacks who thought Re-Construction was an opportunity to set things right...

If one was to follow your logic, every statue in America should be torn down so the Native American community isn't offended. Don't you care about what they went through and how they would feel looking at a statue of Abraham Lincoln? Pony up there Jr. if you are only outraged because of statues you find offensive, then your outrage is selective and purely self serving.

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

These statues already exist. No one wants to erect new ones.

Again -- you keep deflecting

Why are there NO STATUES of Cornwallis??

Those statues that you claim already existed, were erected because of racism, PERIOD -- WHY???

because if there is anything that can get certain white people to identify with the side that lost a war against the United States -- it is hating black people....

I also find it funny how these revisionist racists never mention the fact that Robert E Lee himself was against confederate statues..


but they don't care what he thought because it wasn't really about honoring him as it was about sending a message to blacks who thought Re-Construction was an opportunity to set things right...

I am not deflecting. Why would America have erected a statue to Cornwallis? I simply corrected you. You have an overblown view of the importance of black people in the daily thinking of a white person. Most white people don't even think about race. Your victimhood is pathetic. Those statues weren't only erected because of racism. Who really cares what Robert E. Lee thought?

They didn't erect a statue against the Brits -- even tho they are mostly Brits themselves and were once a part of Britain -- because after the war, there was no HUGE push to identify with the losing side -- there was no HUGE push to show "brown people" to stay in line -- since the system of white supremacy was still in tact..

The reason there are confederate statues is because the system of white supremacy was feared to be in doubt -- so they erected these statues in defiance of Re-Construction and also to show those "brown people" that they better stay in line, ain't nothing changed down here...

and speaking of victimhood -- its racist whites who are playing victim, seeing as tho no one is stopping them from erecting their own statues, just want be on taxpayers money because the side of racists LOST...deal with it

 

[Pogo]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

These statues already exist. No one wants to erect new ones.

Again -- you keep deflecting

Why are there NO STATUES of Cornwallis??

Those statues that you claim already existed, were erected because of racism, PERIOD -- WHY???

because if there is anything that can get certain white people to identify with the side that lost a war against the United States -- it is hating black people....

I also find it funny how these revisionist racists never mention the fact that Robert E Lee himself was against confederate statues..


but they don't care what he thought because it wasn't really about honoring him as it was about sending a message to blacks who thought Re-Construction was an opportunity to set things right...

I am not deflecting. Why would America have erected a statue to Cornwallis? I simply corrected you. You have an overblown view of the importance of black people in the daily thinking of a white person. Most white people don't even think about race. Your victimhood is pathetic. Those statues weren't only erected because of racism. Who really cares what Robert E. Lee thought?

Come on dood. Those statues/monuments were erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the early 20th century decades after the War, specifically to sell the revisionist history of the Cult of the Lost Cause. Which is also why they were put on public squares and/or intersections and/or prominent places. Including the plaque in Pulaski Tennessee lauding the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, including the infamous obelisk in New Orleans that commemorated a city coup d'etat by the White League. They were put where they were for maximum attention to transmit the propaganda of "who's in charge here".

The Cult of the Lost Cause was a historical rewrite to sell the concept that the Civil War really wasn't over slavery, that slaves were happy and content, that the South was this "gallant" culture rather than a bunch of indolent rich fucks getting rich off slaves. It gave us "Birth of a Nation" and its antecedent book "the Clansman", rampant race riots including the Red Summer of 1919 and the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921; rampant lynchings, the re-formation of the Klan and arguably the "gentlemen's agreement" that kept blacks out of baseball for six decades between Moses Fleetwood Walker and Jackie Robinson. Gave us Gone With the Wind, segregated water fountains, rewritten history books and Jim Crow.

THAT is what these artifacts were put there for.

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Another Tom telling racist whites shit that makes them feel better, shocker

You are more than welcome to erect the largest confederate statue you can afford, just not with tax payer money on government property -- there is also a reason we don't have large statues of British generals too..

These statues already exist. No one wants to erect new ones.

Again -- you keep deflecting

Why are there NO STATUES of Cornwallis??

Those statues that you claim already existed, were erected because of racism, PERIOD -- WHY???

because if there is anything that can get certain white people to identify with the side that lost a war against the United States -- it is hating black people....

I also find it funny how these revisionist racists never mention the fact that Robert E Lee himself was against confederate statues..


but they don't care what he thought because it wasn't really about honoring him as it was about sending a message to blacks who thought Re-Construction was an opportunity to set things right...

I am not deflecting. Why would America have erected a statue to Cornwallis? I simply corrected you. You have an overblown view of the importance of black people in the daily thinking of a white person. Most white people don't even think about race. Your victimhood is pathetic. Those statues weren't only erected because of racism. Who really cares what Robert E. Lee thought?

Come on dood. Those statues/monuments were erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the early 20th century decades after the War, specifically to sell the revisionist history of the Cult of the Lost Cause. Which is also why they were put on public squares and/or intersections and/or prominent places. Including the plaque in Pulaski Tennessee lauding the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, including the infamous obelisk in New Orleans that commemorated a city coup d'etat by the White League. They were put where they were for maximum attention to transmit the propaganda of "who's in charge here".

The Cult of the Lost Cause gave us "Birth of a Nation" and its antecedent book "the Clansman", race riots especially the Red Summer of 1919; rampant lynchings, the re-formation of the Klan and arguably the "gentlemen's agreement" that kept blacks out of baseball for six decades between Moses Fleetwood Walker and Jackie Robinson. Gave us Gone With the Wind, segregated water fountains and Jim Crow.

THAT is what these artifacts were put there for.

The fact they keep ignoring all of this is why I have no sympathy for their "feelings" when I call them apologists for racists -- if not racist themselves.