Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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There's been a lot of criticism of allegedly libruhl policies like giving out participation prizes or non-competition in sports, safe spaces in education, government funding of just about anything, but when you examine the confederate statue issue, it reeks of these these alleged policies.
So, for example, the Confederacy lost. Still, they've put up monuments and statues, revering "losers." But, it's much more than that. The North allowed some of the White Southerners to create an alt-reality with their participation "medals" and "trophies." They put plaques up on the statues with words like "Honor," "Courage," and "Sacrifice," that not only are not true, but also apply more to others from the South and North than themselves such as members of the Underground Railroad. Abolitionists and slaves sacrificed much more and showed much more courage. How honorable is it really to support enslavement, murder, and rape of persons? We allowed these "losers" to go on for generations creating this alternate reality out of their ancestors.
Why do they need it? Fear. They are afraid that when their hierarchy has been removed, they will be replaced. They need parks and safe spaces to sit down in their alt-realities next to their plaques on their fictive kins' monuments to retreat from diversity and the World that has moved on...from the truth of history that their ancestral past was terrible...that what comes next involves Others.
And these Welfare Queens want government to continue funding their erected monuments with their alt-realities so they don't have to let go and face the real world.
So, for example, the Confederacy lost. Still, they've put up monuments and statues, revering "losers." But, it's much more than that. The North allowed some of the White Southerners to create an alt-reality with their participation "medals" and "trophies." They put plaques up on the statues with words like "Honor," "Courage," and "Sacrifice," that not only are not true, but also apply more to others from the South and North than themselves such as members of the Underground Railroad. Abolitionists and slaves sacrificed much more and showed much more courage. How honorable is it really to support enslavement, murder, and rape of persons? We allowed these "losers" to go on for generations creating this alternate reality out of their ancestors.
Why do they need it? Fear. They are afraid that when their hierarchy has been removed, they will be replaced. They need parks and safe spaces to sit down in their alt-realities next to their plaques on their fictive kins' monuments to retreat from diversity and the World that has moved on...from the truth of history that their ancestral past was terrible...that what comes next involves Others.
And these Welfare Queens want government to continue funding their erected monuments with their alt-realities so they don't have to let go and face the real world.