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We Don’t Care What You Think
Been working since 4 am and that, combined with SJWs on Twitter, I may be a little testy. I apologize, sort of, if this offends anyone, but for those of you that want to rip down our monuments, take down flags and/or whatever other symbols in the South offend people’s sensibilities now, here’s the deal.
If you don’t live here then we don’t want your damn opinion about our monuments, etc. You’re not here, so guess what? You don’t have to look at it! Go about your day and try to forget about us honoring our war dead or people we think were heroic, if not perfect leaders. After all, in the SJW world view, Lincoln himself was racist as well, so it won’t be long before we tear down the Lincoln Memorial. We know now that history began with Obama’s election, so why even acknowledge the past has been a bit more complicated than today’s college student at Evergreen may understand.
The South is plenty conflicted already about race, poverty, the war, and how we feel about some of our collective guilt and whatnot. Now Antifa is going all Taliban on us and tearing down any monuments they feel offends their Social Justice dogma. So don’t take up for them, don’t defend their position, don’t explain how they are really right but just a little overboard on their implementation.
They are wrong and most importantly we don’t give a good G.D. what they think. They need to go back to Seattle or wherever the hell they came from (probably UNC). As far as the Nazis and Antifa protesters go, is Virginia out of rubber bullets and fire hoses or something?
I heard the story as it was passed down
About guts and glory and Rebel stands
Four generations, a whole lot has changed
Robert E. Lee
Martin Luther King
We’ve come a long way rising from the flame
Stay out the way of the southern thing
The biggest reason the civil-war Is more part of the culture in the South it is the North, is that it was fought in the South. Not only did people die, but property was Destroyed, and battles were witnessed firsthand . Soldiers and the leaders that fought for the Confederacy were looked at as defenders of their homes. Robert E. Lee was obviously considered a hero of Virginia not hero for slavery. Northern troops went away-and thought and came home. Southerners not only fought in the battles but live with after effects. It’s no mystery that the effects of the war became ingrained in their culture more than in the North
Ha! The Missoulian is still the same Cultural Marxist fish-wrap it was back when I lived there.
Local issue only and I agree with the OP.
Yes a lot like that actually
For 20 years of marriage, I endured my Yankee inlaws’ disparaging remarks about the South (even though they knew that’s where my family is from for centuries). Apparently they thought Southerners’ parents are all first cousins and that we have an extra thumb and a KKK outfit hanging in the hall closet. Finally, after years of saying nothing, I pointed out to them that there’s another aspect of the South, that of good manners and sipping mint juleps on the veranda, and honor and pride. I think it went right over their pointy Yankee heads.
As to the present controversy, if some of you can’t understand why we might take umbrage at the constant barrage of insults, then I don’t know how to get through to you. I can say only that, in case you didn’t already realize it, we all condemn slavery. But not all of us make the error of viewing the past through the lens of modern sensibilities. It doesn’t work. And by the way, we have our little ways of thinking about Northerners. We’re usually too polite to voice them in your presence. There are some things you could learn from us.
Kind of. At least from my perspective. I don’t like being told what to do or think by people who really don’t have any authority over me.
The people doing the defacing and tearing down are mostly “progressives” from North and South, but it seems that some of the elitist conservatives share the same opinion.
Pretty much! I occasionally make a catty remark here and there, but I mostly try to ignore anything that isn’t important local news.
Is somebody funding them? Can we follow some of/the money?
Yeah, I’m a bad Southern lady. Polite is not generally my M.O. :>
Ah, yes. God bless them, they’re doing their best.
Bless their hearts.
Some them are coming down because of the big city liberals shouting their local governments into submission, like New Orleans. Others are protesters defacing government property like in Durham, NC.
If there’s money to be followed, look at whoever is funding the protesters because these people can’t possibly have jobs as much as they’re out marching in the streets.
Southern? I thought you were from Texas.
I see what you did there.
Hahaha! Why didn’t I say that first.
Git’em Gilley! Lol. Well I guess several Tennesseans helped get that place going down there so I think they can claim it. :)
Can I just say, this is a remarkable amount of “caring” about what other people think for a post claiming not to care what other people think?
“New York State of Mind”
I think the comments are more about “correcting” what others are saying than caring about what they think.
You mean the prats from Boston who are trying to erase our history? The prats from Boston who want us to grovel in culturally suicidal self-loathing the way the Germans do? The prats from Boston who want to reduce our entire history and culture to nothing but mistreatment of black people?
Texas is the crown jewel of the South!
Yes, them!
Yes, and there’s a difference between caring what others think and just being annoyed.
Hi @concretevol,
Naturally you don’t care what we think. Sure; of course. But in all probability George Soros is funding, big time, both sides in these riots.
Therefore we should reserve and direct our efforts for and to George Soros and his front groups. Our friendships we should preserve among ourselves. Right?
I love this post!
I’m not a Southerner, but I am a fan of the great Florence King who did such a wonderful job for her country–“both of them”! as she memorably put it in one book.
“America is my home!” as Trump tweeted today. Yes, but within that home,
The West,
New England
North of 80*
and Dixie
to name a few–
are our own rooms!
* check on YouTube for Van Wagner’s song North of 80 if you wanna know where I call home! Ok, yuh, the whole thing is amateurish but that only makes me love it more,..
Of course, if I truly didn’t care what people on this site thought I Would it be participating in the discussion. However, do I care about what bussed in protesters think about civil-war memorials in a town they don’t live in? Definitely not , they should have no say
“You will be made to care” as well.
Of course, dear.