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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
I guess what I'm taking issue with is I care about the legality, if Durham had voted to get rid of that statue I'd be all for it. The standard of indiscriminately destroying any and all Confederate anything is a dangerous one. Also Minnie calling them schmucks isn't right, some poor 17 year old conscript from Virginia with no slaves getting his head blown off isn't my idea of a schmuck.
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This is a fairly great example of being unable to see the forest for the trees. Caring about the legality of it is nice, sure, but given all other information and what else happened over the weekend, that seems like a really stupid thing to care about. Charge them, don't, whatever. The legality of the event is a million miles down the list of thing to take out of this past weekend that you should care about.
And yes, calling them schmucks is fine. People die in war. Good people and bad people. There is a lot of truth to the fact that many Nazi soldiers in Germany weren't really given the choice or were quite young... but hey... we all still agree that nazis in general are scum, schmucks, #######s, idiots, etc. If you want to continue being unable to see the forest for the trees on that too, be my guest, but so far most of your arguments revolve around pointless, insignificant details and seem completely out of touch with a broad understanding of history or current events.