Ok so I used my magic eraser and deleted a bunch of nonsense. Keep your arguments to PM’s
Any more racist remarks will lead to suspension.
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Donald is an idiot. He is an embarrassment and a blight on our country.
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Most of what’s being said in this thread doesn’t belong on an Airbnb forum, but I have to respond to this. What exactly is the concern about buildings, streets, etc being named after Confederate war heroes? Kennedy was a womanizing adulterer, but does having a school named after him promote that to those who go there for an education?
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Why do we need to erase our history? It made this country what it is, and guides us to what it will become. Ever been to Rome, the seat of the Catholic Church? There are pagan statues and altars all over the city. The Coliseum, you know where slaves, families, children and Christians were slaughtered or fed to lions in public, just for fun. Still there. They are left as reminders - not to mention are beautiful pieces of art that would be lost.
And all of the statues being removed in this country… Should we remove the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument in DC, because of things they did? They only founded the country and gave us the freedoms we enjoy today, but maybe that doesn’t matter anymore. How about all the war memorials, because some think they just celebrate violence? Let’s tear those down too.
Where does it stop? Wanting to bulldoze Golgotha Hill?
The ignorance is just astounding.
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@loislane21 and privileged Karen’s of this world keep telling themselves that it is OK to memorialize traitors who also supported enslaving people under the premise that is our history, heritage, legacy.
Maybe take your own advice and save your racist slant for your next Klan meeting.
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Personally, I don’t think the statues should be destroyed. The statues are actually works of art- a sculptor’s craft. I think they should be moved to a museum. In that way, they remain for historical purposes, like the Holocaust Museum, to make sure that people don’t forget the atrocities humans are capable of perpetrating on each other. They could be displayed right next to depictions of humans being bought and sold and treated like cattle. But they shouldn’t be on public display in a way that glorifies them, as if they were heroes, when in fact they were the leaders of those who perpetrated and wished to continue to perpetrate crimes against humanity.
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Thank you SO MUCH for making my point and showing your own ignorance by making your racist comments.
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Seriously…crack a book or two open sometime. Reading hate sites on the internet and watching television is not an education.
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And then there are those who never knew it to begin with. The glorification of the Confederacy is part of the post Reconstruction era of Jim Crow. Other slave owners like Washington and Jefferson had other significant accomplishments that were part of building this nation. Confederates had one goal and that was to destroy the nation in defense of slavery. As for other references to things built in other times for other reasons in other countries, that’s just classic “whataboutism.”
Can you get more irrelevant? What do Christian stories have to do with American traitor worship? I hope you aren’t comparing defenders of slavery to Christ.
We certainly agree about that.
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I don’t read hate sites on the internet and I haven’t watched television in 50 years. Crack a book or two open? I read constantly.
I just love how your ilk loves to make assumptions about people you don’t know at all.
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I’m not too keen on lumping all people brainwashed by “Lost Cause” propaganda in with Nazis. As a cultural Southerner raised in a home with Confederate flags and George Wallace support, I know how powerful the indoctrination is. It certainly is possible to overcome it, ironically, just the way @loislane21 suggests. For me, that book was Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson.
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He was not a traitor who took up arms against the country. So there is that.
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Yes, many public figures have personal lives which we may find immoral or distasteful. But their personal lives are their business, as long as they aren’t committing crimes. It’s how they deal with the issues before them, which affect the public and the country, which is relevant.
This is a fun topic.
More of our presidents had questionable sexual liasons than is commonly talked about.
Washington, Jefferson, Tyler are believed to have fathered children with slaves they owned.
Probably a creepy pedophile: Grover Cleveland
Buchanan was probably gay and Lincoln had an interesting relationship in his younger days with Joshua Speed.
Garden variety affairs: Garfield, Wilson, Harding, FDR, Eisenhower, LBJ, JFK, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Trump.
Reagan had quite the interesting life prior to settling down with Nancy.
We’re lucky Trump is so old now or we’d have another Clinton in the White House.
Not a president but interesting given the foundation of his political career:
Strom Thurmond had an illicit relationship with a black woman which became public after his death.
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She has a fixed point of view and belief system. You have facts backed by real data.
She will win every time.
Don’t engage with crazy! 
Many years ago I listened to a really interesting interview with a sociologist/anthropologist/psychologist who had an interesting theory which she had written a book about. I wish I had made note of her name at the time.
She believed that humans aren’t biologically programmed to stay with the same partner for their entire lives. That it is only relatively recently, in terms of human history, that people live long enough for things like a 50th wedding anniversary to be common.
Before medical advancement, and other changes in society, humans died on average at what we would now consider to be a tragically young age. Women died in childbirth, men died in battle or fending off wild animals. People died on long journeys to find somewhere to live where game was plentiful or the climate wasn’t so harsh. Life was dangerous and often short. So it was quite common for people to have new partners when the last one died, and those relationships might only last for a few years.
She said we now hold up faithfulness and staying with the same person all our lives to be the thing we should aim for, and that if we fail to achieve that, it’s somehow thought of as a failure, but that, in fact, serial monogamy is likely to be the situation that humans are biologically programmed for.
As I’ve said previously I’m posting for the benefit of anyone who might be reading with genuine interest in the topic. I learned from my years in the classroom you never know when you are getting through to someone who is sitting quietly in the back.
A problem ignored never resolves on it’s own.
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He was an amateur compared to auld Joe 
JF
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Ok I am a newbie and got off of the TV so I would not have to hear anymore politics and here I go to a STR forum hopefully to learn and see all this stuff. You guys are going to scare people off.
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Just remember to be politically correct by “only bashing the USA”, especially if you don’t live here
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