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Functional Illiterates Trying To Erase History
Burning Platform Blog ^ | 17AUG17 | Jim Quinn Rages

Posted on 08/16/2017 4:44:39 PM PDT by vannrox

Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,

“True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.” ? Robert E. Lee

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I consider myself a student of history. I’ve always been fascinated by the personalities who drove events throughout history. I probably would have been a history major in college if I didn’t feel the need to make enough money to support myself and my family. I chose a business major and decided studying history would be my hobby. Over the years I’ve taken a particular interest in the Civil War. You could even call me a Civil War buff.

I’ve probably read 60 books on the Civil War, from Bruce Catton, Shelby Foote and numerous other historians. I’ve visited the Gettysburg battlefield a half dozen times, as it is only 150 miles from my home. My basement office is decorated with six prints depicting various scenes from the Civil War. One depicts Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson at Fredericksburg, another depicts Jackson leading his troops through Richmond, another depicts Grant taking command of Union forces, another shows Chamberlain leading the charge down Little Round Top, another portrays Lee and Longstreet making the fateful decision to send Pickett’s men on their futile charge into history, and the last showing the slaughter during Pickett’s charge.

I’ve even taken an executive education course in leadership where the final day is a trip to Gettysburg where a park ranger guides you through the three day battle and the professor asks you to assess the leadership shown by officers on both sides during that tide turning battle. My fascination with the Civil War isn’t based on rooting for one side or the other. I wanted to understand the motivations of the main characters and understand why and how they fought that bloody war. There were so many fateful decisions, errors of judgement, acts of courage, acts of cowardice, brilliantly bold maneuvers, and just plain good and bad luck.

Robert E. Lee, before the outbreak of the war, was overwhelmingly regarded as the finest military mind in the U.S. army. Winfield Scott offered him command of all Union forces at the outbreak of hostilities. But he chose allegiance to his state of Virginia, rather than the Federal government. He didn’t fight for slavery. He freed his slaves. He was fighting for states’ rights. He was an honorable God fearing noble man. Stonewall Jackson was an extremely religious man who waged war with a passion, but also taught Sunday School to slaves. Lee and Jackson must be viewed in the context of the 19th century rather than being judged by the standards of the 21st century.

The vast majority of Confederate soldiers who did the fighting and dying during that war didn’t own slaves. They weren’t fighting to maintain slavery. They were fighting because a foreign army had invaded their land. In 1860 this nation was more an amalgamation of states than a centralized government. States still had a tremendous amount of power and leeway to run their states the way they chose. The ever increasing power of a central authority occurred during and after the Civil War. The South were not the bad guys. Their leaders, generals and soldiers were not evil. They were Americans.

The revisionist history now being peddled by the left wing media and their non-thinking acolytes lacks a factual basis, historical context and a true understanding of history. The Civil War was the climax of decades of tension between the North and the South over states’ rights, economic policies, slavery, and a myriad of other complex issues. Examined within the context of generational theory, it was a Fourth Turning that was unavoidable. It was a crucial important event in U.S. history. It wasn’t the shameful episode portrayed by the brain dead faux journalists babbling on CNN and MSNBC.

Illegally pulling down statues of Confederate soldiers and taking videos of “brave” unemployed liberal arts major social justice warriors kicking the Confederate soldier is what passes for activism in today’s warped society. Liberal mayors and city councils across the south are falling all over themselves wasting time and taxpayer money to remove statues of Confederate generals to appease the left and make a display of how anti-racist they can be. Meanwhile, their cities are bankrupt, their infrastructure is decaying, black crime is rampant and their education systems matriculate functionally illiterate deranged snowflakes into society.

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These courageous left wing politicians, like the mayor of New Orleans, have statues removed in the middle of the night to avoid protests by those who understand you cannot erase history by removing statues and names. In a hysterical development, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh on Monday said in a statement she intended to move forward in removing several city statutes, including those of Lee and Stonewall Jackson. I suppose the soaring murder rate, blacks rioting and burning down neighborhoods, crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, and white flight is due to a few Confederate statues. It’s good to see this diverse mayor has her priorities in order.

The ignorance and disregard for history knows no bounds for generations taught to feel rather think in our government run indoctrination centers known as public schools. The left wing media reinforces their ignorance with misinformation, fake news and government sanctioned propaganda. Snowflakes across the land melt at anything they are instructed to find offensive. Everything and everyone who doesn’t agree with their half baked views are declared racists.

Pointing out that leftist antifa thugs, without permits to protest, initiated the violence in Charlottesville is racist. The uproar against Trump’s truthful assessment of the situation by CNN, MSNBC and Fox proves there isn’t a wit of difference among these corporate media outlets. True colors are revealed. The ongoing coup attempt against Trump continues unabated.

Trump’s impromptu press conference and his push back of this false narrative was a thing of beauty. The hypocrisy of the left and their utter contempt for facts must be thrown back in their faces at every opportunity. Across the country, 718 Confederate monuments and statues remain, with nearly 300 of them in Georgia, Virginia or North Carolina. There are also 109 public schools named for Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis or other icons of the Civil War-era South. Will the left be satisfied when all 718 monuments are destroyed and all 109 schools are renamed Oprah Winfrey Middle School? No. They will find something else to be offended about, and violently attack again.

The funniest part about watching these social justice warriors wail and gnash their teeth about the racism of these monuments is knowing these unemployed functional illiterates couldn’t tell you when the Civil War occurred, name two major battles, name five generals, provide a death count within 250,000, or fill in the blank in the phrase Surrender at __________. They don’t know jack shit about history, the Civil War, Lincoln’s true feelings about blacks, or the fact the Democratic Party is the party which suppressed blacks for one hundred years following the Civil War. Only truly ignorant snowflakes think they can erase history by protesting it and trying to destroy monuments to those who fought and died for a cause they believed in.

Do these left wing zealots have any sense of awareness? Maybe they were too busy studying for their gender studies finals to see the reports of the Taliban destroying ancient Buddhist monuments in territory they had captured. Zealots, terrorists, and extremists attempt to destroy symbols that offend them as a way to prove their strength and power. In reality, they destroy what others have built in a feckless effort to boost their self-esteem. Intellectual lightweights attempt to bring others down because they realize their lack of intelligence and inability to get ahead in life has to be blamed on someone else.

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If these social justice warrior weaklings were transported back in time 154 years to the Gettysburg battlefield where real men displayed real courage and bravery, they would be covered in their own urine cowering behind a tree as Pickett’s charge commenced. Could you imagine any of the Soros paid professional antifa protestors charging across an open field towards certain death? Those pussies would be high tailing it south as fast as their fashion designer sneakers would take them.

Trump was absolutely correct in asking, “Where does it end?” Washington owned slaves. Do we get rid of all dollar bills and quarters? Do we change the name of our capital? Do we change the name of Washington & Lee University to Obama & Spike Lee University? Do we blow up the Washington Memorial? Jefferson owned slaves. Do we get rid of nickles? How about the Jefferson Memorial?

Why stop only in our country? The Egyptian pyramids were built by slaves. Should we tear those down? If these are symbols of hatred and racism that must be destroyed, why do we never hear calls from the left for the destruction of the Nazi death camps. Talk about symbols of hate. Why would we want to remember the holocaust? It couldn’t be that it doesn’t fit the left’s narrative.

This Confederate monument narrative is designed by the left to provoke a backlash from whites who are tired of being scorned, ridiculed, belittled and called racists, rednecks and deplorables by so called open minded progressives. It’s working. The cold race war is beginning to turn hot. The president has no intention of trying to bring the two sides together because it’s impossible at this point. That’s how Fourth Turnings roll. The mood of the country will continue to darken. Reactions to these types of events will intensify. More blood will be shed. It’s too bad these functional illiterates didn’t pay attention in history class or ever read a book. They are going to learn some harsh lessons over the next decade.

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That’s what it is to be alive. It’s pretty dense kids who haven’t figured that out by the time they’re ten.” ? Kurt Vonnegut Jr.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: black; bloggers; history; liberal; statue

This Confederate monument narrative is designed by the left to provoke a backlash from whites who are tired of being scorned, ridiculed, belittled and called racists, rednecks and deplorables by so called open minded progressives. It’s working. The cold race war is beginning to turn hot. The president has no intention of trying to bring the two sides together because it’s impossible at this point. That’s how Fourth Turnings roll. The mood of the country will continue to darken. Reactions to these types of events will intensify. More blood will be shed. It’s too bad these functional illiterates didn’t pay attention in history class or ever read a book. They are going to learn some harsh lessons over the next decade.


1 posted on 08/16/2017 4:44:39 PM PDT by vannrox
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To: vannrox

Honestly, though. This is about appeasing blacks and a bunch of self hating brain washed whites most still live off of a parent and the government. Most Hispanics don’t gaf about the confederacy or those monuments. And most whites dem voters in fly over country find BLM and ANTIFA repugnant and criminal. I see why the liberal politicians are bending over backward to this crowd when you consider how important it is for them to turn out the black vote in certain areas or lose. But why in the hell would the GOP-e try to say this group of communist thugs were justified in their violence? *SEE RUBIO AND ROMNEY TWEETS


2 posted on 08/16/2017 4:51:13 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: vannrox

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3 posted on 08/16/2017 4:52:13 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: vannrox

“They” are doing this throughout the world (something big is coming):

In Sweden they are melting Viking artifacts.

http://dailywesterner.com/news/2017-08-16/the-war-on-sweden-sweden-erases-own-history-by-turning-viking-artifacts-into-scrap-metal/

In Venezuela any hate-or-intolerance speech will get you 25 years. (of course, they can define those as anything they like.)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-16/venezuelans-face-25-years-prison-hate-or-intolerance


4 posted on 08/16/2017 4:52:41 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: vannrox

This is the culmination of years of anti white male brainwashing in schools and in the media btw.


5 posted on 08/16/2017 4:52:49 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: vannrox

Liberal mayors and city councils across the south are falling all over themselves wasting time and taxpayer money to remove statues of Confederate generals to appease the left and make a display of how anti-racist they can be.

Meanwhile, their cities are bankrupt, their infrastructure is decaying, black crime is rampant and their education systems matriculate functionally illiterate deranged snowflakes into society.


6 posted on 08/16/2017 4:53:02 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: snarkytart

This is about preventing so many non-whites from voting for Trump again (and possibly scuttling some Republicans in the mid-terms). Race is one of many issues used to divide us (along with gender, class, age, carnivores vs. vegetarians/vegans, etc.); they simply can’t have “non-progressives” (read: non-Bolsheviks) in power, with the votes of so many people who are supposed to loathe each other and most of all the WASP culture of this country.


7 posted on 08/16/2017 4:55:21 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: snarkytart

Not just Rubio and Romney. The entirety of the GOPe is taking the side of Antifa. None of them are criticizing Antifa in any way. According to the GOPe, Antifa is fighting hate and intolerance. Only President Trump is speaking the actual truth.


8 posted on 08/16/2017 4:56:56 PM PDT by KyCats
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So, after they remove the Confederate monuments and successfully erase history, will they shut up finally about reparations?

I mean, if a war to end slavery never happened, then slavery never happened, and there is absolutely no historical basis to rationalize reparations.


9 posted on 08/16/2017 4:58:09 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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They will never shut up....until they are shut up.


10 posted on 08/16/2017 5:22:42 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (th)
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To: vannrox

Is Canada destroying their monuments and statues to Louis Riel who was hanged there for TREASON?


11 posted on 08/16/2017 5:30:07 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ouderkirk

Poking the tiger in the cage is very unhealthy


12 posted on 08/16/2017 5:30:53 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: vannrox

My name is VT. I am a white man. Everything is my fault. Please forgive me. //sarcasm.


13 posted on 08/16/2017 5:46:53 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: exDemMom
If no history of slavery exists then...

No reparations for you!

14 posted on 08/16/2017 5:49:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: ronnie raygun

I have crossed over and no longer consider these scum my fellow citizens....they are domestic enemies and should be treated as such.


15 posted on 08/16/2017 5:58:49 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (th)
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To: vannrox

Is it irony that lets a group of people supposedly not wanting to be here and basically complaining that WE do not allow or recognize their cultural.

So, along with an invited guest not being able to speak because a few UNinvited guests shout them down in the name of FREE SPEECH.?

We have Blacks from Africa named Smith and John David Jones etc etc while American blacks - in the name of heritage and Cultural call themselves such names a Laquiceintia in ‘honor’ of same.

On the other hand, the Blacks are joined by self hating whites (who will be the first to go as when the SHTF those that are embracing will be ‘pushed aside’ when their ‘value’ is gone.

So we have a bunch of immigrants who move here, despise the country and do everything in their power to turn their own neighborhoods (first) into a replica of the $hiitehole they just needed liberating from.

NOW, to show their strength, they want to destroy the history and cultural of the people that basically took them in.

One or two more zoos like took place in Charlottesville will result in the PRO statue crowd again showing up unarmed etc, being surrounded by the Antis and once they make their move, I can envision something like an outlaw motorcycle gang trapping the Antis in the middle.

Of course this will inevitably lead to random attacks between Blacks and Whites and before long the SWHTF big time.

THANKS LIBS & BO.


16 posted on 08/16/2017 6:13:38 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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Is it irony that lets a group of people supposedly not wanting to be here and basically complaining that WE do not allow or recognize their cultural.

So, along with an invited guest not being able to speak because a few UNinvited guests shout them down in the name of FREE SPEECH.?

We have Blacks from Africa named Smith and John David Jones etc etc while American blacks - in the name of heritage and Cultural call themselves such names a Laquiceintia in ‘honor’ of same.

On the other hand, the Blacks are joined by self hating whites (who will be the first to go as when the SHTF those that are embracing will be ‘pushed aside’ when their ‘value’ is gone.

So we have a bunch of immigrants who move here, despise the country and do everything in their power to turn their own neighborhoods (first) into a replica of the $hiitehole they just needed liberating from.

NOW, to show their strength, they want to destroy the history and cultural of the people that basically took them in.

One or two more zoos like took place in Charlottesville will result in the PRO statue crowd again showing up unarmed etc, being surrounded by the Antis and once they make their move, I can envision something like an outlaw motorcycle gang trapping the Antis in the middle.

Of course this will inevitably lead to random attacks between Blacks and Whites and before long the SWHTF big time.

THANKS LIBS & BO.


17 posted on 08/16/2017 6:13:38 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: vannrox

Is it irony that lets a group of people supposedly not wanting to be here and basically complaining that WE do not allow or recognize their cultural.

So, along with an invited guest not being able to speak because a few UNinvited guests shout them down in the name of FREE SPEECH.?

We have Blacks from Africa named Smith and John David Jones etc etc while American blacks - in the name of heritage and Cultural call themselves such names a Laquiceintia in ‘honor’ of same.

On the other hand, the Blacks are joined by self hating whites (who will be the first to go as when the SHTF those that are embracing will be ‘pushed aside’ when their ‘value’ is gone.

So we have a bunch of immigrants who move here, despise the country and do everything in their power to turn their own neighborhoods (first) into a replica of the $hiitehole they just needed liberating from.

NOW, to show their strength, they want to destroy the history and cultural of the people that basically took them in.

One or two more zoos like took place in Charlottesville will result in the PRO statue crowd again showing up unarmed etc, being surrounded by the Antis and once they make their move, I can envision something like an outlaw motorcycle gang trapping the Antis in the middle.

Of course this will inevitably lead to random attacks between Blacks and Whites and before long the SWHTF big time.

THANKS LIBS & BO.


18 posted on 08/16/2017 6:13:38 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: snarkytart

It is also the result of giving the podium to losers instead of winners; these are the rantings of the envious Bolsheviks. The whites in these antifa groups are not successful people; they know they have nothing to lose.


19 posted on 08/16/2017 6:43:15 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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