The Statue Wars Begin

There is something thrilling about toppling a statue (any statue) and once the idea has got out on the still night air, maybe all statues should wonder how firm their fixings are?

the belief in a duality of consciousness (something exists after death) and non-duality beliefs (death is the end - no soul, etc.). One from each belief set cannot discuss their beliefs with anyone from the other side.

ideological lockstep

Max trying to reposition his bigotry as something else. Max is on record as saying he fears that some of his college sexual encounters could be reinterpreted as rape.

Ironic that Captain Cook ended up cooked, in Hawai...

Lacan believed that people's life choices were influenced by their name, but I doubt Cook chose his cooking...

Olivier5 wrote:

Lacan believed that people's life choices were influenced by their name, but I doubt Cook chose his cooking...

Would it have helped me as a young man if I had changed my surname to Sex?

Would it have helped me as a young man if I had changed my surname to Sex?

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Max trying to reposition his bigotry as something else. Max is on record as saying he fears that some of his college sexual encounters could be reinterpreted as rape.

This is a pretty nasty personal attack, and a lie. If Max is "on record", then show it.

If we are going to make things up, Izzy is on record as having killed his wife.

Dumb ...
The feds just arrested a Houston man who was allegedly trying to plant explosives by a Confederate statue

Max has to be the most persistent hater of women at this site.

As far as Max calling himself a liberal--don't piss down my leg and tell me it's raining.

Finn, is Setanta joking? This overhyped hysteria over a dozen "defenseless" White women being brutalized over 320 years ago seems like a joke... but he seems so serious.

I remember Finn's fake "Heart Surgery" , which he apparently made up as some kind of debating point

Generally, allegations such as that there is a clique of liberals here are a product of what is known in statistics as the fallacy of the enumeration of favorable circumstances. Simply stated, that fallacy provides "evidence" by finding examples which seem to support the thesis, while ignoring any examples which contradict the thesis. You will see this here when people whine about being ganged up on, ignoring that those who criticize them have their own contretemps. One thing they will not do is recognize that the criticism may be valid.

Max hates and constantly attacks women.

Rather than seriously reflect on the nature of his "contribution" to the site, he has taken the easy path, honored from time immemorial by ranters and screed-writers, of claiming to be persecuted by a clique.

Would that it were true, and Max were truly subjected to the the abuse he so richly deserves.

The argument being made is that These monuments were erected specifically for the purpose of promoting White Supremacy. I think that this is a good argument. It is a fact that these monuments were erected quickly in times when White Supremacy was being threatened (reconstruction, and the civil rights movement) and were funded by groups that opposed civil rights.

To "honor rebels" was not the point. The monuments were erected to send a message that any attempt to get rights for African-Americans (or change the status quo) wasn't going to happen.

This is not criticism, it's oceanography!