New Posts For Thread: Removal of Confederate statueshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30928301/removal-of-confederate-statuesI understand the emotion of wanting to remove the monuments, especially as they can be a magnet for neo-nazis, but for the first time I think I may actually agree with Trump(removal of statues, not the violence in Charlottesville) You cannot airbrusThat is for the American people to decide, not you pineapple.and they are deciding to take the statues down.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30928301/removal-of-confederate-statues?post_id=552619331#552619331That is for the American people to decide, not you pineapple.and they are deciding to take the statues down.Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:03:26 -0500The celebration of men who fought to maintain slavery is extremely hurtful to black people. The KKK, white supremacists and, yes, President Ignorance know it and this is precisely why they want to preserve the statues.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30928301/removal-of-confederate-statues?post_id=552619323#552619323The celebration of men who fought to maintain slavery is extremely hurtful to black people. The KKK, white supremacists and, yes, President Ignorance know it and this is precisely why they want to preserve the statues.Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:02:18 -0500the idea of removing them is some way of denying their history. Obviously complete nonsense. Just read a book ffs. You'll do well to find any statues of Hitler or Goebbels but I'm pretty sure most people know who they are and what they did.It isn't ahttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30928301/removal-of-confederate-statues?post_id=552617897#552617897the idea of removing them is some way of denying their history. Obviously complete nonsense. Just read a book ffs. You'll do well to find any statues of Hitler or Goebbels but I'm pretty sure most people know who they are and what they did.It isn't aFri, 18 Aug 2017 13:43:35 -0500That is for the American people to decide, not you pineapple.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30928301/removal-of-confederate-statues?post_id=552614411#552614411That is for the American people to decide, not you pineapple.Fri, 18 Aug 2017 04:39:37 -0500For many years after the Civil War, Southern states routinely convicted poor African Americans and some whites of vagrancy or other crimes, and then sentenced them to prolonged periods of forced labor. Owners of businesses, like plantations, railroadhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30928301/removal-of-confederate-statues?post_id=552614407#552614407For many years after the Civil War, Southern states routinely convicted poor African Americans and some whites of vagrancy or other crimes, and then sentenced them to prolonged periods of forced labor. Owners of businesses, like plantations, railroadFri, 18 Aug 2017 04:37:22 -0500I think the first obvious point to make is that the removal of that statue was merely a front for the fascists to congregate. There's enough video evidence, posters, facebook posts etc to confirm. This was merely about getting all fascists, white suphttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30928301/removal-of-confederate-statues?post_id=552614397#552614397I think the first obvious point to make is that the removal of that statue was merely a front for the fascists to congregate. There's enough video evidence, posters, facebook posts etc to confirm. This was merely about getting all fascists, white supFri, 18 Aug 2017 04:35:39 -0500fair enough.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30928301/removal-of-confederate-statues?post_id=552614381#552614381fair enough.Fri, 18 Aug 2017 04:32:28 -0500lfc...Roughly 1,264,000 American soldiers have died in the nation's wars--620,000 in the Civil War and 644,000 in all other conflicts. It was only as recently as the Vietnam War that the amount of American deaths in foreign wars eclipsed the number whttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30928301/removal-of-confederate-statues?post_id=552614353#552614353lfc...Roughly 1,264,000 American soldiers have died in the nation's wars--620,000 in the Civil War and 644,000 in all other conflicts. It was only as recently as the Vietnam War that the amount of American deaths in foreign wars eclipsed the number wFri, 18 Aug 2017 04:24:30 -0500those where the people in America who fought that war, the greatest loss of life in American history, greater than WW1, WW2, Vietnam, and Korea combinedand those were the men who put up those statues, we might think we have something to learn from thhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30928301/removal-of-confederate-statues?post_id=552614265#552614265those where the people in America who fought that war, the greatest loss of life in American history, greater than WW1, WW2, Vietnam, and Korea combinedand those were the men who put up those statues, we might think we have something to learn from thFri, 18 Aug 2017 03:42:54 -0500of course when you compare it to what happened in places like Cambodia, or Russia, or France, or Rwanda, or China ectthere is no comparison.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30928301/removal-of-confederate-statues?post_id=552614253#552614253of course when you compare it to what happened in places like Cambodia, or Russia, or France, or Rwanda, or China ectthere is no comparison.Fri, 18 Aug 2017 03:38:21 -0500