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Southern Poverty Law Center To Create Map of Confederate Symbols
memphisflyer.com ^ | 9/3/2015 | Toby Sells

Posted on 09/06/2015 7:19:17 AM PDT by rktman

Earlier this month, the SPLC launched a new initiative called "Erasing Hate," which "aims to identify and eliminate government-sanctioned symbols honoring the Confederacy."

"There are numerous government-sponsored symbols of the Confederacy that are out in the public across the country, and, quite frankly, it's time for them be removed," said SPLC founder Morris Dees. "In Montgomery, Alabama, we have a Robert E. Lee High School that wasn't even named until [Brown v. the Board of Education], the desegregation case. We have government-sponsored holidays honoring Confederate 'heroes'."

Flags, street names, building names, and statues honoring the Confederacy became public targets across the country earlier this year after a white supremacist shot and killed nine African Americans in a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 201509; confederacy; deniers; dixie; historical; splc
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Gee what a noble cause huh? Not like that will foment any hard feelings or anything. Is there also a move afoot to remove any and all references to slavery? Are there any govt supported monuments to that? Tear 'em down. If it doesn't happen we can always wait for isis/isil/is to do it. If all references to the Confederacy are removed then there will be no need for talk of reparations for something that never happened. How about somebody make a map of all the MLK streets, aveunes, roads, overpasses etc and we take all those down. Gotta say, the splc sure has a way of pissing people off.
1 posted on 09/06/2015 7:19:17 AM PDT by rktman
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SPLC are a bunch of ignorant, stupid bastards. If any organization in the county is a hate group it’s them pathetic fools.


2 posted on 09/06/2015 7:22:01 AM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: rktman

These are the people who would blow up the Bamyan Buddhas.
These are the people who would destroy ancient temples in Palmyra.

They have the mentality of Islamic terrorists. They are compelled to utterly destroy their opponents and erase any trace of them.


3 posted on 09/06/2015 7:22:34 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Cruz is still my #1, but Trump is impressing the hell out of me.)
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To: rktman

These white haters will be attaching living names to this database, I guarantee you.


4 posted on 09/06/2015 7:23:30 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ClearCase_guy

What’s the over/under on the number of armed securiry who surround that Marxist @-hole, Morris Dees? I’m going with 3.5.


5 posted on 09/06/2015 7:25:34 AM PDT by twister881
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To: NKP_Vet

Turns out secularists are quite capable of conducting their own iconoclastic movement. Who knew?

Turnabout is fair play. All symbols of socialism, communism and collectivism need to be identified and removed. Nothing else has created more false hope nor caused failure and misery on such an enduring and large scale.


6 posted on 09/06/2015 7:25:34 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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Include Black Lives Matter! It is a racist hate group, supported by a radical Islamist group, CAIR and led by an Islamic Terrorist Farrakan calling for blacks to kill innocent white people!


7 posted on 09/06/2015 7:27:02 AM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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I guess our local Confederate Soldier statue on the town square will have to be destroyed.

I do believe ISIS would get the approval of all American leftists and libs if they painted a confederate flag on all the ancient statues and temples before they dynamited them.


8 posted on 09/06/2015 7:28:01 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Marxist organizations are typically for Big Government - something which was anathema to the Confederacy.


9 posted on 09/06/2015 7:29:16 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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Last week I received mail from SPLC asking for a donation for their “Erase Hate” campaign. They evidently don’t know me very well.


10 posted on 09/06/2015 7:29:31 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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SPLC is the biggest bunch of butt hurt the world has ever seen. creepy bunch of ***’s


11 posted on 09/06/2015 7:30:21 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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MLK, Jr. was a Communist collaborator, adulterer, woman-beater, plagiarist, alcoholic, and law breaker. I demand his name & likeness be erased from all streets, schools, parks, and public buildings & structures. And also that the Federal holiday named for him be rescinded.
12 posted on 09/06/2015 7:31:15 AM PDT by twister881
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To: mylife

You have to admit it’s provided a fine living for old Morris Dees for 40+ years.


13 posted on 09/06/2015 7:31:49 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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Bet they complain about Ft Eustis and Fort Lee. they complain about Fort Bragg and Fort Sam Huston.


14 posted on 09/06/2015 7:33:45 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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You have to admit it’s provided a fine living for old Morris Dees for 40+ years.

That's really all the SPLC is- A cash cow for the select few who own the enterprise. It's one big giant con that spreads hate and discontent for $$$$$.

15 posted on 09/06/2015 7:34:52 AM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

So true.

I have a Friend from Libya, He knows I went in and effed up Ghaddafi, he has no issue with that.

He HATES Obama and the Liars that brought ISIS and are destroying millennia of history

Surprised the haven’t blown up the Pyramids yet


16 posted on 09/06/2015 7:36:38 AM PDT by mylife (at)
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To: TADSLOS

They’re the “go to” source for all things KKK.
When the MSM needs a good KKK quote or info to smear some conservative, they’re always available.


17 posted on 09/06/2015 7:37:46 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: ameribbean expat

So very true....I will never forget when he had his coronation, all I could see was the color red. Red hats, red scarves, red coats- red was everywhere. It was such a terrifying moment and I was glad my grandparents were not alive to see it having escaped the Commies once in Russia. And another time Me-chelle wearing her red dress with the big black X across the front—despicable people. May God continue to give us strength....


18 posted on 09/06/2015 7:38:24 AM PDT by homegroan (It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.)
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To: rktman

It does sound a bit like what ISIS/ISIL is doing, doesn’t it? We should build, not destroy.


19 posted on 09/06/2015 7:38:40 AM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: TADSLOS

That is what creeps do


20 posted on 09/06/2015 7:38:47 AM PDT by mylife (at)
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