Yeah, I took the easy way out on that one. In my defense, the history lesson would have killed the joke
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Who is this guy?
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Wot, āwe didnāt think youād noticeā?? Does that say anything about how smart they expected their students to be?
He needs to empty his pockets, and whatās on his key ring??
Saw this today, too. A bit different in toneā¦https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/why-i-threw-away-my-portrait-robert-e-lee/573631/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20181023&silverid-ref=NDQ1ODAzMTMwODEyS0
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OT RE PBSā āBest novel ever; Countdown to the Top Ten!ā
Stephen Millerās grandfather?
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āIt was just a beautiful print that I had purchased, and I thought it was very nice,ā Thomas told the Post. He knew Forrest only āas a southern general during the Civil War,ā he said.
Oh sure. We all just purchase a portrait of someone without even researching who it is - especially if weāre going to hang it in a work enviroment. No one would even bother asking who it is or anything!
Signed,
trumpdog
born - yesterday
One manager with a pending Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case against Thomas, Michelle Gardner-Ince, recalled Thomas telling her several years ago: āāMy wife told me I shouldnāt put this picture up, but I said I donāt care; I like it.āā
So ummm, if your spouse says something like that, wouldnāt the next question be, āWhyā¦ā?
Of course not. Because. he. already. knew.
Nine of the 14 managers in Thomasā office are black, the Post reported, and āat least threeā employees have accused him of racial discrimination.
/sigh
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It would appear that he had some knowledge of Forrestās post-war history. He shoulda got a print of Gen. Jubal Early.
Forrest was a traitor during the war, a slave trader before it, as well as founder of the Klan after. great guy. And it only took an article in WaPo to get this guy to remove it, after his wife advised him not to hang it and three supervisees filed discrimination complaints about him.
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His subtext: I just wanted my Nazi friends to know where I stand, I didnāt know Iād get caught.
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His so-called willful ignorance is so wrong in so many different ways. Heās in charge of a federal agency that supports āUnionā soldiers for godās sake.
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As I believe Erik Loomis of Lawyers Guns and Money first wrote, secession was Treason in Defense of Slavery. The battle flag is the flag of Treason in Defense of Slavery. All who supported secession are Traitors in Defense of Slavery. All who defend the Traitors in Defense of Slavery are Supporters of Treason in Defense of Slavery.
Treason in Defense of Slavery is all that it was and all that it is and we should stop calling it anything else.
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Yeah, the āI just thought it was a neat pictureā excuse is pretty lame. Especially when coupled with multiple complaints of racial prejudice pending against him.
Trump has normalized white nationalist racism and this is the result. A newly emboldened racist undergroundā¦ I like that people are pushing back hard. We need to keep doing that. Every single day, with every single incident. We canāt allow any of it to take hold any worse than it already hasā¦
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Itās either āit was a jokeā (if younger) or āhyuk hyuk Iām just too darn dumb to knowā (if older) with them. Every. Single. Time. They damn well knew what they were doing, it was intentional, they thought they were being very cool and clever by doing it, and not a single one of them is smart enough to think of a different excuse. Never let them get away with it.
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Well said. Now, letās do the same exercise for those who salute the Swastika, the flag of the Nazis.
Treason in Defense of Slaveryā¦
Isnāt pledging allegiance to Nazi ideology and the flag that represented it also a kind of treason? I canāt understand why anyone would consider it acceptable to embrace that flag and ideology here in our country. And how is espousing that ideology considered āfree speechā if it clearly crosses the line into something unacceptable at any level.
When so many Americans fought and died to preserve or defend our Union, our Republic, from the Slaver secessionists, and later from a powerful foreign threatā¦ to fly those flags on our soil is to spit on the Constitution, and the graves of the fallen. Not what āfree speechā is really about, is itā¦?
I consider American Nazis to be traitors to our country. Period. Siding with a hateful ideology, a sworn enemy of our Republic. And how ironic that modern day āConfederatesā and Neo-Nazis run in the same circles, or are simply one and the sameā¦
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Funny, I was going to post āhe bears an uncanny resemblance to Millerā¦ā both physically and metaphoricallyā¦
Iāll go with your posit, even though, technically (and even more deeply ironically) Miller is Jewishā¦
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Thank you.
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Moron declared at a rally in Houston āIām a nationalist.ā Itās normal right now.
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