internet-delenda-est yeah obviously I was a bit sloppy in my initial response. Wow. Absolutely shocking. This isn’t fucking debate club.
Shown that reason doesn’t apply.
Actually you haven’t. Under Lincoln’s presidency, the Union went on to nominally outlaw slavery — except in cas es of crime. The 13th Amendment has been used to keep penal slavery illegal. Lincoln himself did not personally own slaves, but he was absolutely complicit as a President in maintaining the institution of slavery.
I’m sure that’s also not the reason you don’t like it.
The reason I don’t like the monuments is because I am an outspoken anarchist and AmeriKKKa
is a shining beacon on a hill for everything I despise about the world.
Lincoln tricked racist northerners into dying in a war against the most heinous form of slavery the world has ever seen, and he still doesn’t pass your purity test. Fucking wild.
I think that slavers don’t deserve monuments […]
Lincoln himself did not personally own slaves, but [yada, yada, yada]
You’re just making a different shift here.
Shifting the definition of slaver, from one commonly understood usage, to your own personal version.
But that doesn’t even matter, as you admit that’s not the reason you don’t like it.
The reason you don’t like it, isn’t any rational practical reason. It’s an ideological dogmatism. A decree. Because you don’t like it, other’s shouldn’t be allowed to. Which is kind of funny coming from “an outspoken anarchist”.
Shifting the definition of slaver, from one commonly understood usage, to your own personal version.
I literally cited the dictionary definition. A slaver is any person involved in the slave trade.
The reason you don’t like it, isn’t any rational practical reason.
You literally don’t have to have a practical reason to like or not like stuff. Like I could’ve been like “I don’t like the monuments because they look like doo doo” and that is a legitimate aesthetic preference.
Because you don’t like it, other’s shouldn’t be allowed to.
When did I say that others should be banned from liking it? I just want people to understand what the thing they’re liking actually represents, which is the vile AmeriKKKan settler-colonial project.
Which is kind of funny coming from “an outspoken anarchist”.
I just want people to understand what the thing they’re liking actually represents,
It doesn’t actually represent anything. It’a a public pool.
You just imagine it represents something. Something specific to you.
Just as anyone else, could imagine it represents anything else.
And what you really want, is to convince others your imagining is real. Because you believe it is. And since you can’t choose what you believe or don’t, all you can do is try to convince others to believe what you do.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
internet-delenda-est yeah obviously I was a bit sloppy in my initial response. Wow. Absolutely shocking. This isn’t fucking debate club.
Actually you haven’t. Under Lincoln’s presidency, the Union went on to nominally outlaw slavery — except in cas es of crime. The 13th Amendment has been used to keep penal slavery illegal. Lincoln himself did not personally own slaves, but he was absolutely complicit as a President in maintaining the institution of slavery.
The reason I don’t like the monuments is because I am an outspoken anarchist and AmeriKKKa is a shining beacon on a hill for everything I despise about the world.
m0darn@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
This is maybe the most absolutely deranged thing I have ever read.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 11 hours ago
Yeah it’s pretty deranged that he chose to do that, and it’s pretty deranged that you pretend like AmeriKKKa hasn’t always been a slave nation.
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m0darn@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Lincoln tricked racist northerners into dying in a war against the most heinous form of slavery the world has ever seen, and he still doesn’t pass your purity test. Fucking wild.
Steve@communick.news 1 day ago
You’re just making a different shift here.
Shifting the definition of slaver, from one commonly understood usage, to your own personal version.
But that doesn’t even matter, as you admit that’s not the reason you don’t like it.
The reason you don’t like it, isn’t any rational practical reason. It’s an ideological dogmatism. A decree. Because you don’t like it, other’s shouldn’t be allowed to. Which is kind of funny coming from “an outspoken anarchist”.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
I literally cited the dictionary definition. A slaver is any person involved in the slave trade.
You literally don’t have to have a practical reason to like or not like stuff. Like I could’ve been like “I don’t like the monuments because they look like doo doo” and that is a legitimate aesthetic preference.
When did I say that others should be banned from liking it? I just want people to understand what the thing they’re liking actually represents, which is the vile AmeriKKKan settler-colonial project.
Yes because anarchism is when you have literally no opinions on anything ever and you let literally everything happen with absolutely no pushback whatsoever 🙄.
Steve@communick.news 1 day ago
It doesn’t actually represent anything. It’a a public pool. You just imagine it represents something. Something specific to you.
Just as anyone else, could imagine it represents anything else.
And what you really want, is to convince others your imagining is real. Because you believe it is. And since you can’t choose what you believe or don’t, all you can do is try to convince others to believe what you do.