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Originally posted by mbinky:
"First they came for the Confederate statutes, and I did nothing..."

Oh, please.....
Quit with the old tired cliches, or is that all you can handle?

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by mbinky:
"First they came for the Confederate statutes, and I did nothing..."

Oh, please.....
Quit with the old tired cliches, or is that all you can handle?

I think the principle behind what mbinky posted is true, cliché or not. What we are seeing is the true nature of progressivism; one benign step at a time into oppression. I'm not about to ignore what I see because of a cliché.

Cliche, but spot on.

The gun grabbers have been trying to do the same thing.....one baby step at a time. This shit needs to be stopped......yes I lived in the South many years, and my heart will always reside there!!

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Originally posted by Ackks:
Cliche, but spot on.

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

That's how most everything happens, you know, garden variety incrementalism.

It's an effective strategy and a natural progression for all manner of things, good and bad.

It, in and of itself, means nothing special.

For example: They are now going after that infamous hater, Christopher Columbus. Anybody think that is where they will stop? Or will there be a next?

A BLM organizer has begun floating the idea that whites should give up their homes to blacks and browns. Is it conceivable-- imaginable-- that white homes could be targeted for protest demonstrations, maybe even attacked? How about the homes of decendents of slave owning families?

mbinky's post is about incrementalism, and-- cliche or not-- it is a well known leftist tactic.

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post is about incrementalism, and-- cliche or not-- it is a well known leftist tactic

It's also how we teach kids in school, train soldiers in the military, teach skills to trades, etc.

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A BLM organizer has begun floating the idea that whites should give up their homes to blacks and browns. Is it conceivable-- imaginable-- that white homes could be targeted for protest demonstrations, maybe even attacked?

They should probably consider all the ramifications before they actually try that shit.

I suspect it will end very badly for them.

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Originally posted by justjoe:
A BLM organizer has begun floating the idea that whites should give up their homes to blacks and browns. Is it conceivable-- imaginable-- that white homes could be targeted for protest demonstrations, maybe even attacked? How about the homes of decendents of slave owning families.

It happened in Africa as European colonies became independent countries...and nobody cared.

"...it will end badly for them..."

....Unless the police won't intervene, and the media paints the protesters as victims and homeowners as racists, as in recent events...and city government backs the protesters....

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by mbinky:
"First they came for the Confederate statutes, and I did nothing..."

Oh, please.....
Quit with the old tired cliches, or is that all you can handle?

"We the people" Another old tired cliche I never tire of hearing.

Cliches are cliches because they are so often true.

There is absolutely no evidence that the Left will ever stop even if you give them everything they want. They will just want more.

So what's next with this civil war statues / monument desecration movement?

Will they move to union states and start removing their civil war monuments too, since they too point out the evil slave past?

What's next? Bulldoze confederate civil war cemeteries and build public housing there for BLM members?

I tell you, someone is either putting something in the air or water affecting all these loons.

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I tell you, someone is either putting something in the air or water affecting all these loons.

Perhaps it is as improbable as who is paying for this mayhem ?

Who would have an interest in seeing our nation decimated ?

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Originally posted by wcb6092:

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by mbinky:
"First they came for the Confederate statutes, and I did nothing..."

Oh, please.....
Quit with the old tired cliches, or is that all you can handle?

"We the people" Another old tired cliche I never tire of hearing.

SenorJALLEN:
You mean clichés like property rights, public property, private property,etc,etc,.....
Or, "We all come home together"

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Originally posted by 46and2:
That's how most everything happens, you know, garden variety incrementalism.

It's an effective strategy and a natural progression for all manner of things, good and bad.

It, in and of itself, means nothing special.

Look at gun control, or healthcare if you would like an example. Even with a super majority, BHO knew that he could not pass single payer if he tried. He knew that he couldn't have totally banned guns if he tried. So, put incremental mechanisms in place to win over the long haul. We all know that Obamacare was never supposed to work, it was a conduit to move toward single payer. If he'd tried to run single payer, and doubled down on it, he'd have not had any support within his own party except from places like CA, IL, CT, MA, NY and other liberal hotspots. Even the wackos in his party from free states would have been forced to abandon him. They did learn a lesson in '96, but it seems that they are slowly forgetting their past. Or they just don't care because they control the media machine.

Cliche or not, if it is the truth, it is the truth. Understanding the enemy is the first step in defeating the enemy. Our enemy is well versed, and we don't have the generals in our party that are interesting in victory.

A couple of days ago, Trump slammed George Stephanopoulos in his speech:



...and he was right!

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Originally posted by PD:

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Originally posted by justjoe:
A BLM organizer has begun floating the idea that whites should give up their homes to blacks and browns. Is it conceivable-- imaginable-- that white homes could be targeted for protest demonstrations, maybe even attacked? How about the homes of decendents of slave owning families.

It happened in Africa as European colonies became independent countries...and nobody cared.

look at what's going on in South Africa RIGHT NOW.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by mbinky:
"First they came for the Confederate statutes, and I did nothing..."

Oh, please.....
Quit with the old tired cliches, or is that all you can handle?

"We the people" Another old tired cliche I never tire of hearing.

I don't consider that "another tired old cliche."

My point was that if these UT statues are so sacred, so revered, why have they been essentially ignored for decades, until now?

I can't say what their status was before, when UT had virtually no blacks on campus, except maybe as janitors and most public buildings had 3 bathrooms and 2 water fountains, for white and colored.

Moreover, the statues are not being tossed onto the slag heap of history. Several are being moved to historical display collections. According to the letter we received,

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The statues depicting Robert E. Lee, Albert Sidney Johnston, John Reagan and James Stephen Hogg are now being removed from the Main Mall. The Lee, Johnston and Reagan statues will be added to the collection of the Briscoe Center for scholarly study. The statue of James Hogg, governor of Texas (1891-1895), will be considered for re-installation at another campus site.