Political correctness run amok.
1 posted on
01/25/2002 8:41:32 AM PST by
Publius
To: Shuckmaster
FYI
To: Publius
The Frankfort School would patent the familiar “Critical Theory” which was accurately defined by a student as the “essentially destructive criticism of all the main elements of Western culture, including Christianity, capitalism, authority, the family, patriarchy, hierarchy, morality, tradition, sexual restraint, loyalty, patriotism, nationalism, heredity, ethnocentrism, convention, and conservatism.”
Any surprise that it would be another DEMOCRAT expousing the tenets of Gramscianism?
7 posted on
01/25/2002 8:53:24 AM PST by
Chapita
To: Publius
"Slavery was the greatest injustice of our history," he said. "It's not something we should glorify."
Right, we're too busy glorifying ignorance.
Wow. This is like deja vu all over again!
8 posted on
01/25/2002 8:54:32 AM PST by
balrog666
To: Publius
Took them a little while to notice it, eh?
To: Publius
The markers have been there for over 60 years and they are just now noticing? Some people just have to go way out of their way to be offended.
19 posted on
01/25/2002 9:02:44 AM PST by
aomagrat
To: Publius
Actually, it is a little silly to name anything after Davis. Now, if they'd named the road after Robert E. Lee, that would have been different. Davis? Nah.
To: Publius
"In this state, we cannot have a monument to a guy who led the insurgency to perpetuate slavery and killed half a million Americans," told The Herald of Everett. ...
If the bill passes, Dunshee said, the state Parks Department would remove the northern monument. If it fails, he says, he's willing to drive to Blaine and rip it out himself, even if he winds up going to jail.
I have to admit, it's a little loopy to have a Jefferson Davis highway in Washington, since the state has no connection to the Civil War.
That said, I'm amused to see that Dunshee is willing to defy the government to prevent honoring a man who defied his government.
To: Publius
"In this state, we cannot have a monument to a guy who led the insurgency to perpetuate slavery and killed half a million Americans," told The Herald of Everett. This jerk should read up about Jefferson Davis. He was a good man.
To: Publius
Who cares? Washington--State or DC--is not part of our country. Deo Vindice. The Kid.
To: Publius
My no-cost solution wouold be to announce that the Jefferson Davis highway now honors the federal general of the same name. Wouldn't even have to change the signs ...
35 posted on
01/25/2002 9:19:36 AM PST by
sphinx
To: Publius
This news doesn't surprise me. I read recently that Washington's King County, which was originally named for Vice President William R. King (1853-1857), has been renamed for Martin Luther King.
To: Publius
Everybody let's just ignore JudasPriest, aka Hans Dunshee. Imagine being so full of hate!
43 posted on
01/25/2002 9:29:25 AM PST by
Dante3
To: Publius
Well, King County, Seattle area, is was not named for Martin Luther King originally. It was named for some guy, I think who was a prior slave owner and the socialists here went nuts about it. I think it has officially gone over to MLK being honored now, but not originally.
To: Publius
He was on the losing side, get over it. Time to move on.
58 posted on
01/25/2002 9:48:11 AM PST by
breakem
To: Publius
Maybe the highway was named for Jefferson C. Davis, the Union brigadeer and first governor of Alaska. He was one of the stalwarts on Sherman's March.
63 posted on
01/25/2002 10:03:30 AM PST by
Seti 1
To: Publius
The state ought to say that it named the state after Jefferson Davis, the Union General during the Civil War, who led one of Sherman's groups through Georgia and the Carolinas. [Different middle initial from the Confederate president, one was C. the other D..]
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To: Publius
If Jefferson Davis was an insurgent, why wasn't he tried for treason. Quite simply, because he was not a traitor. The Federal Government wanted to but they dropped it becuase they had no case. Davis was begging them to do it. Knowing that he would be able to destroy them in a trial because secession was legal, and forced reunion was not. Slavery is immoral. Including the slavery the Federal Government inflicts on all of us. Which it belives the civil war justified.
To: Publius
Washington wasn't even a state during the Civil War - it is silliness to have a highway named for a Confederate President there. There's nothing historical about it. sheeeeeesh.
To: Publius
Just another step in the ethnic cleansing of White America.
To: Publius
Sounds to me like the carpetbaggers are still amongst us.
To: Publius
the REAL hans! The Washington State White Male: the other 'white meat'!!
To: Publius;khepera
(definition) History: A PC tool to redefine and demand the way we (PC crowd) remember how the past was supposed to be.
136 posted on
01/26/2002 8:51:36 AM PST by
wwjdn
To: Publius
I remember driving through Alabama during the mid-1970s on a highway called "The George C. Wallace Whiteway".
I wonder if it is still named that way?
To: Publius
"In this state, we cannot have a monument to a guy who led the insurgency to perpetuate slavery and killed half a million Americans," told The Herald of Everett. EXCUSE YOU??!
Outraged Southerner bump
169 posted on
01/30/2002 5:41:45 AM PST by
maxwell
To: Publius
"In this state, we cannot have a monument to a guy who led the insurgency to perpetuate slavery and killed half a million Americans," told The Herald of Everett. Yeah, but we can have a 20 foot tall statue of a much more evil figure of human history, Vladimir Lenin, in the town square at Freemont??? What an a$$hole...JFK
To: Publius
I object to the
FDR drive here in Manhattan.
It's named for a warmongering socialist who trashed our constitution and helped unleash the horrors of Sovietism on the 20th century.
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