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21-08-2017, 11:51 AM | #1 | ||
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/...change-it.html
I agree with a lot of this. For all the foot stamping going on about America and the West as a whole, their histories have indeed shaped them into the great nations they are today. |
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21-08-2017, 11:58 AM | #2 | |||
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Interesting article from a Native Indian perspective
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21-08-2017, 12:06 PM | #3 | ||
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I thought so LT. He makes some very valid points and as you say from a different perspective.
The uncontrolled spread of PC across Britain reminds me of the worrying spread of the plant Japanese Knotweed doing the same. Last edited by Brillopad; 21-08-2017 at 12:19 PM. |
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21-08-2017, 01:45 PM | #4 | |||
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21-08-2017, 02:09 PM | #5 | ||
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It doesn't hurt to think about that sometimes and remember how lucky we are compared to many. Unfortunately when it is all just there it can lead to people taking things for granted and create generations with a sense of entitlement. We cannot move the whole world to the West. If we want to help people we have to do it in their countries. Last edited by Brillopad; 21-08-2017 at 02:18 PM. |
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21-08-2017, 02:32 PM | #6 | ||
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Destroying and defacing monuments is what the Romans did and what ISIS do.Trying to wipe out people's history is not a way forward.Reminders of the past are important.People see these monuments and research them and learn from the past.
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21-08-2017, 03:19 PM | #7 | |||
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This week, you literally kicked up a fuss about a man being given an umbrella before a woman, and 'the left' being mean to 'the right'. You can't applaud anti-PCness when youre that PC, surely. Its weird.
PC is at a very reasonable level imo. Doesn't need changing to either side.
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21-08-2017, 03:34 PM | #8 | ||
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21-08-2017, 03:40 PM | #9 | |||
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Your time on tibb does suggest (to me) that you are more PC than average, just because you regularly show outrage at anything remotely unequal, which most wouldn't even pick up on... so I do find this thread coming from you a bit unusual.
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21-08-2017, 03:54 PM | #10 | ||
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Many on here have complained about the constant use of words such as racist, bigot and the latest one - nazi when challenged on certain subjects. So most don't even pick up on it! I don't what you are reading!!!! |
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21-08-2017, 04:13 PM | #12 | ||
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21-08-2017, 04:16 PM | #13 | |||
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21-08-2017, 04:28 PM | #14 | ||
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The Confederates were exclusively a white race who grew rich and prosperous on the backs of black slaves. When names are glorified in a statue, they tend to be historical heroes, not people who supported the transportation of millions to a life of slavery. Would it be okay to put up a statue of Josef Mengele or Eduard Wirths in Germany for advancing modern medicine through experimentation on the Jews?
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21-08-2017, 04:37 PM | #16 | |||
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We should never close the history books. We should never stop educating our kids about the real history of our country/countries, but we are not a white supremacy; we are not the chosen ones and so, in my humble opinion, the statue's of Confederates deserve no place amongst the real heroes of America.
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21-08-2017, 06:24 PM | #17 | |||
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What Russia can teach the US about what to do with Confederate statues after Charlottesville So the Russians have their dodgy statues together in one place, to preserve the history, but not have it in peoples faces. Sound like the answer to me
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21-08-2017, 07:33 PM | #18 | |||
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I get you Brillo, I have noticed some on here disagree with you time and time again and its always the same people, closed minds, I don;t know why you bother really because it's always the same bunch who jump on anything you say.
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21-08-2017, 08:58 PM | #19 | ||
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21-08-2017, 08:59 PM | #20 | |||
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Always the same people sticking up for Muslims, speaking out about black slavery. Shame on us closed minded, politicly correct do gooders. Shame on us for jumping on thread after hateful thread that tries to coerce us into her way of thinking.
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21-08-2017, 10:36 PM | #21 | |||
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Brillo has a right to their opinion, I don't agree with everything she says but I do think sometimes she has a point in some of the things yet I have never once seen the ones I was talking about agree with her points and that to me is close minded
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22-08-2017, 07:13 AM | #22 | ||
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It isn't hateful to criticise a religion that preaches so much hate towards others. I don't preach or support any kind of violence, I just object to a religion being allowed to showcase its vile hateful views of women on our streets, especially as such views are in direct violation of our equality laws. And like you I will continue to fight for what I percieve as an injustice. Last edited by Brillopad; 22-08-2017 at 07:17 AM. |
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22-08-2017, 11:34 AM | #23 | |||
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I don't always agree with you Brillo but I can see that almost everything you say is jumped on and often ridiculed and you have as much right to your views as anyone else.
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Why would anyone join a serious debate to agree with something they adamantly disagree with? Like Brillo so rightly said, I find these topics trigger me emotionally, so why would I sit back and say nothing? Brillo is the biggest thread starter on this channel and she clearly has very strong feelings about particular sub groups. If I and all the people who strongly disagree with her opinion ignored her threads, then her debates wouldn't even take off. Serious debate is not about us all holding hands and singing cumbia.
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