Hi all. I came across this earlier while watching a video Martin Brodel on YouTube. I never heard of JIm Quinn before but I can assure Im glad I did. I wish I could write with clasiry and aplomb like he hs shown here. It Pertains to the recent riots in Charlotte NC. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

Semper Fi
Mike

Jim Quinn Rages At "Functional Illiterates Trying To Erase History"


Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,

“True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.” ? Robert E. Lee

Image result for toppled statue durham nc

I consider myself a student of history. I’ve always been fascinated by the personalities who drove events throughout history. I probably would have been a history major in college if I didn’t feel the need to make enough money to support myself and my family. I chose a business major and decided studying history would be my hobby. Over the years I’ve taken a particular interest in the Civil War. You could even call me a Civil War buff.

I’ve probably read 60 books on the Civil War, from Bruce Catton, Shelby Foote and numerous other historians. I’ve visited the Gettysburg battlefield a half dozen times, as it is only 150 miles from my home. My basement office is decorated with six prints depicting various scenes from the Civil War. One depicts Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson at Fredericksburg, another depicts Jackson leading his troops through Richmond, another depicts Grant taking command of Union forces, another shows Chamberlain leading the charge down Little Round Top, another portrays Lee and Longstreet making the fateful decision to send Pickett’s men on their futile charge into history, and the last showing the slaughter during Pickett’s charge.



I’ve even taken an executive education course in leadership where the final day is a trip to Gettysburg where a park ranger guides you through the three day battle and the professor asks you to assess the leadership shown by officers on both sides during that tide turning battle. My fascination with the Civil War isn’t based on rooting for one side or the other. I wanted to understand the motivations of the main characters and understand why and how they fought that bloody war. There were so many fateful decisions, errors of judgement, acts of courage, acts of cowardice, brilliantly bold maneuvers, and just plain good and bad luck.

Robert E. Lee, before the outbreak of the war, was overwhelmingly regarded as the finest military mind in the U.S. army. Winfield Scott offered him command of all Union forces at the outbreak of hostilities. But he chose allegiance to his state of Virginia, rather than the Federal government. He didn’t fight for slavery. He freed his slaves. He was fighting for states’ rights. He was an honorable God fearing noble man. Stonewall Jackson was an extremely religious man who waged war with a passion, but also taught Sunday School to slaves. Lee and Jackson must be viewed in the context of the 19th century rather than being judged by the standards of the 21st century.

The vast majority of Confederate soldiers who did the fighting and dying during that war didn’t own slaves. They weren’t fighting to maintain slavery. They were fighting because a foreign army had invaded their land. In 1860 this nation was more an amalgamation of states than a centralized government. States still had a tremendous amount of power and leeway to run their states the way they chose. The ever increasing power of a central authority occurred during and after the Civil War. The South were not the bad guys. Their leaders, generals and soldiers were not evil. They were Americans.

The revisionist history now being peddled by the left wing media and their non-thinking acolytes lacks a factual basis, historical context and a true understanding of history. The Civil War was the climax of decades of tension between the North and the South over states’ rights, economic policies, slavery, and a myriad of other complex issues. Examined within the context of generational theory, it was a Fourth Turning that was unavoidable. It was a crucial important event in U.S. history. It wasn’t the shameful episode portrayed by the brain dead faux journalists babbling on CNN and MSNBC.

Illegally pulling down statues of Confederate soldiers and taking videos of “brave” unemployed liberal arts major social justice warriors kicking the Confederate soldier is what passes for activism in today’s warped society. Liberal mayors and city councils across the south are falling all over themselves wasting time and taxpayer money to remove statues of Confederate generals to appease the left and make a display of how anti-racist they can be. Meanwhile, their cities are bankrupt, their infrastructure is decaying, black crime is rampant and their education systems matriculate functionally illiterate deranged snowflakes into society.

Image result for toppled statue durham ncImage result for toppled statue durham nc

These courageous left wing politicians, like the mayor of New Orleans, have statues removed in the middle of the night to avoid protests by those who understand you cannot erase history by removing statues and names. In a hysterical development, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh on Monday said in a statement she intended to move forward in removing several city statutes, including those of Lee and Stonewall Jackson. I suppose the soaring murder rate, blacks rioting and burning down neighborhoods, crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, and white flight is due to a few Confederate statues. It’s good to see this diverse mayor has her priorities in order.

The ignorance and disregard for history knows no bounds for generations taught to feel rather think in our government run indoctrination centers known as public schools. The left wing media reinforces their ignorance with misinformation, fake news and government sanctioned propaganda. Snowflakes across the land melt at anything they are instructed to find offensive. Everything and everyone who doesn’t agree with their half baked views are declared racists.

Pointing out that leftist antifa thugs, without permits to protest, initiated the violence in Charlottesville is racist. The uproar against Trump’s truthful assessment of the situation by CNN, MSNBC and Fox proves there isn’t a wit of difference among these corporate media outlets. True colors are revealed. The ongoing coup attempt against Trump continues unabated.

Trump’s impromptu press conference and his push back of this false narrative was a thing of beauty. The hypocrisy of the left and their utter contempt for facts must be thrown back in their faces at every opportunity. Across the country, 718 Confederate monuments and statues remain, with nearly 300 of them in Georgia, Virginia or North Carolina. There are also 109 public schools named for Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis or other icons of the Civil War-era South. Will the left be satisfied when all 718 monuments are destroyed and all 109 schools are renamed Oprah Winfrey Middle School? No. They will find something else to be offended about, and violently attack again.

The funniest part about watching these social justice warriors wail and gnash their teeth about the racism of these monuments is knowing these unemployed functional illiterates couldn’t tell you when the Civil War occurred, name two major battles, name five generals, provide a death count within 250,000, or fill in the blank in the phrase Surrender at __________. They don’t know jack shit about history, the Civil War, Lincoln’s true feelings about blacks, or the fact the Democratic Party is the party which suppressed blacks for one hundred years following the Civil War. Only truly ignorant snowflakes think they can erase history by protesting it and trying to destroy monuments to those who fought and died for a cause they believed in.

Do these left wing zealots have any sense of awareness? Maybe they were too busy studying for their gender studies finals to see the reports of the Taliban destroying ancient Buddhist monuments in territory they had captured. Zealots, terrorists, and extremists attempt to destroy symbols that offend them as a way to prove their strength and power. In reality, they destroy what others have built in a feckless effort to boost their self-esteem. Intellectual lightweights attempt to bring others down because they realize their lack of intelligence and inability to get ahead in life has to be blamed on someone else.

Image result for taliban blowing up buddhist statues

If these social justice warrior weaklings were transported back in time 154 years to the Gettysburg battlefield where real men displayed real courage and bravery, they would be covered in their own urine cowering behind a tree as Pickett’s charge commenced. Could you imagine any of the Soros paid professional antifa protestors charging across an open field towards certain death? Those pussies would be high tailing it south as fast as their fashion designer sneakers would take them.


Trump was absolutely correct in asking, “Where does it end?” Washington owned slaves. Do we get rid of all dollar bills and quarters? Do we change the name of our capital? Do we change the name of Washington & Lee University to Obama & Spike Lee University? Do we blow up the Washington Memorial? Jefferson owned slaves. Do we get rid of nickles? How about the Jefferson Memorial?

Why stop only in our country? The Egyptian pyramids were built by slaves. Should we tear those down? If these are symbols of hatred and racism that must be destroyed, why do we never hear calls from the left for the destruction of the Nazi death camps. Talk about symbols of hate. Why would we want to remember the holocaust? It couldn’t be that it doesn’t fit the left’s narrative.

This Confederate monument narrative is designed by the left to provoke a backlash from whites who are tired of being scorned, ridiculed, belittled and called racists, rednecks and deplorables by so called open minded progressives. It’s working. The cold race war is beginning to turn hot. The president has no intention of trying to bring the two sides together because it’s impossible at this point. That’s how Fourth Turnings roll. The mood of the country will continue to darken. Reactions to these types of events will intensify. More blood will be shed. It’s too bad these functional illiterates didn’t pay attention in history class or ever read a book. They are going to learn some harsh lessons over the next decade.



“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That’s what it is to be alive. It’s pretty dense kids who haven’t figured that out by the time they’re ten.” ? Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The OP reeks of the "Lost Cause" rendition of the Civil War. It's so full of BS and I'm ashamed of all of you who agree with its historically proven bias.

You can deny that slavery wasn't the driving factor of the Civil War all you want, but anynargument you can prodipuce can easily be shown to have its origin in slavery.

States' Rights: the desire of the slave-holding ststes to be able to take their slaves into the new territories.

Economy: the South's economy was based on slaves while the North's was based on paid labor.

Slavery: this should be obvious. The South wanted slavery to continue while the North was, at its worst, ambivalent about it.

Strong central Federal government vs. a weak Federal government: if you have read history as you claim, you'd know that the weak Federal government approach was tried and failed. It was under the Articles of Confederation that a weak Federal governemt was tried and it proved a total failure. Each state was making its own currency, had its own weights and measures, charged tolls to enter from one state into another, disrespected one another's laws, and, generally, thought of themselves as several free and independent countries.

No matter what your arguement/claim is regarding what caused the Civil War, slavery was always front and center as its basis.

As to taking pride in ones "heritage," that's all well and good. But, if ones heritage included an armed insurrection against the government; a heritage that resulted in the loss of about 850,000 people, the decimation of an entire generation, all over something you, now, claim you distain, then, I'd say that's not something to be very proud of. While you may claim to not be racist, your heritage says volumes to the contrary.

As to the "Confederates" protecting their "country from an invading army," that's total BS! "The Confederste States of America" existed in name, only. NO other country in the world recognized the CSA as a free, self-governing and independent country.

As to an "invading army," the "Rebels" were the "invading army." The armies that were formed by the insurrectionists, under the pretext of forming their own country, were the armies who were the "invaders." They invaded Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Pennsylvania, causing death and destruction in their wakes. That the Union armies "invaded" a foreign country is ridiculous! The Union armies went into States who were in rebellion against the legitimate government of the United States and went in said states to put down the rebellion/insurrection. Again, the "Confederate States of America" NEVER existed as a free and independent country. It was the dream (nightmare, actually) of a bunch of rich, plantation owners, who wanted to be able to ignore the laws they felt prevented them from becoming more rich, that never became a reality.

So, for some of you history revisionists to whine and cry about the removal of statues to the leaders of a rebellion, I say, "Get over it! Those statues should've never been erected to begin with."

No matter how much you try to re-write history, you'll never be able to justify the reasons you propose for having fought our Civil War. Read about. Study it. Research the military stragety and tactics. But, don't try to justify the Southern reasonings that the Civil War was a legitimate cause.

Hi all. I came across this earlier while watching a video Martin Brodel on YouTube. I never heard of JIm Quinn before but I can assure Im glad I did. I wish I could write with clasiry and aplomb like he hs shown here. It Pertains to the recent riots in Charlotte NC. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

Semper Fi
Mike

Jim Quinn Rages At "Functional Illiterates Trying To Erase History"


Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,

“True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.” ? Robert E. Lee

Image result for toppled statue durham nc

I consider myself a student of history. I’ve always been fascinated by the personalities who drove events throughout history. I probably would have been a history major in college if I didn’t feel the need to make enough money to support myself and my family. I chose a business major and decided studying history would be my hobby. Over the years I’ve taken a particular interest in the Civil War. You could even call me a Civil War buff.

I’ve probably read 60 books on the Civil War, from Bruce Catton, Shelby Foote and numerous other historians. I’ve visited the Gettysburg battlefield a half dozen times, as it is only 150 miles from my home. My basement office is decorated with six prints depicting various scenes from the Civil War. One depicts Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson at Fredericksburg, another depicts Jackson leading his troops through Richmond, another depicts Grant taking command of Union forces, another shows Chamberlain leading the charge down Little Round Top, another portrays Lee and Longstreet making the fateful decision to send Pickett’s men on their futile charge into history, and the last showing the slaughter during Pickett’s charge.



I’ve even taken an executive education course in leadership where the final day is a trip to Gettysburg where a park ranger guides you through the three day battle and the professor asks you to assess the leadership shown by officers on both sides during that tide turning battle. My fascination with the Civil War isn’t based on rooting for one side or the other. I wanted to understand the motivations of the main characters and understand why and how they fought that bloody war. There were so many fateful decisions, errors of judgement, acts of courage, acts of cowardice, brilliantly bold maneuvers, and just plain good and bad luck.

Robert E. Lee, before the outbreak of the war, was overwhelmingly regarded as the finest military mind in the U.S. army. Winfield Scott offered him command of all Union forces at the outbreak of hostilities. But he chose allegiance to his state of Virginia, rather than the Federal government. He didn’t fight for slavery. He freed his slaves. He was fighting for states’ rights. He was an honorable God fearing noble man. Stonewall Jackson was an extremely religious man who waged war with a passion, but also taught Sunday School to slaves. Lee and Jackson must be viewed in the context of the 19th century rather than being judged by the standards of the 21st century.

The vast majority of Confederate soldiers who did the fighting and dying during that war didn’t own slaves. They weren’t fighting to maintain slavery. They were fighting because a foreign army had invaded their land. In 1860 this nation was more an amalgamation of states than a centralized government. States still had a tremendous amount of power and leeway to run their states the way they chose. The ever increasing power of a central authority occurred during and after the Civil War. The South were not the bad guys. Their leaders, generals and soldiers were not evil. They were Americans.

The revisionist history now being peddled by the left wing media and their non-thinking acolytes lacks a factual basis, historical context and a true understanding of history. The Civil War was the climax of decades of tension between the North and the South over states’ rights, economic policies, slavery, and a myriad of other complex issues. Examined within the context of generational theory, it was a Fourth Turning that was unavoidable. It was a crucial important event in U.S. history. It wasn’t the shameful episode portrayed by the brain dead faux journalists babbling on CNN and MSNBC.

Illegally pulling down statues of Confederate soldiers and taking videos of “brave” unemployed liberal arts major social justice warriors kicking the Confederate soldier is what passes for activism in today’s warped society. Liberal mayors and city councils across the south are falling all over themselves wasting time and taxpayer money to remove statues of Confederate generals to appease the left and make a display of how anti-racist they can be. Meanwhile, their cities are bankrupt, their infrastructure is decaying, black crime is rampant and their education systems matriculate functionally illiterate deranged snowflakes into society.

Image result for toppled statue durham ncImage result for toppled statue durham nc

These courageous left wing politicians, like the mayor of New Orleans, have statues removed in the middle of the night to avoid protests by those who understand you cannot erase history by removing statues and names. In a hysterical development, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh on Monday said in a statement she intended to move forward in removing several city statutes, including those of Lee and Stonewall Jackson. I suppose the soaring murder rate, blacks rioting and burning down neighborhoods, crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, and white flight is due to a few Confederate statues. It’s good to see this diverse mayor has her priorities in order.

The ignorance and disregard for history knows no bounds for generations taught to feel rather think in our government run indoctrination centers known as public schools. The left wing media reinforces their ignorance with misinformation, fake news and government sanctioned propaganda. Snowflakes across the land melt at anything they are instructed to find offensive. Everything and everyone who doesn’t agree with their half baked views are declared racists.

Pointing out that leftist antifa thugs, without permits to protest, initiated the violence in Charlottesville is racist. The uproar against Trump’s truthful assessment of the situation by CNN, MSNBC and Fox proves there isn’t a wit of difference among these corporate media outlets. True colors are revealed. The ongoing coup attempt against Trump continues unabated.

Trump’s impromptu press conference and his push back of this false narrative was a thing of beauty. The hypocrisy of the left and their utter contempt for facts must be thrown back in their faces at every opportunity. Across the country, 718 Confederate monuments and statues remain, with nearly 300 of them in Georgia, Virginia or North Carolina. There are also 109 public schools named for Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis or other icons of the Civil War-era South. Will the left be satisfied when all 718 monuments are destroyed and all 109 schools are renamed Oprah Winfrey Middle School? No. They will find something else to be offended about, and violently attack again.

The funniest part about watching these social justice warriors wail and gnash their teeth about the racism of these monuments is knowing these unemployed functional illiterates couldn’t tell you when the Civil War occurred, name two major battles, name five generals, provide a death count within 250,000, or fill in the blank in the phrase Surrender at __________. They don’t know jack shit about history, the Civil War, Lincoln’s true feelings about blacks, or the fact the Democratic Party is the party which suppressed blacks for one hundred years following the Civil War. Only truly ignorant snowflakes think they can erase history by protesting it and trying to destroy monuments to those who fought and died for a cause they believed in.

Do these left wing zealots have any sense of awareness? Maybe they were too busy studying for their gender studies finals to see the reports of the Taliban destroying ancient Buddhist monuments in territory they had captured. Zealots, terrorists, and extremists attempt to destroy symbols that offend them as a way to prove their strength and power. In reality, they destroy what others have built in a feckless effort to boost their self-esteem. Intellectual lightweights attempt to bring others down because they realize their lack of intelligence and inability to get ahead in life has to be blamed on someone else.

Image result for taliban blowing up buddhist statues

If these social justice warrior weaklings were transported back in time 154 years to the Gettysburg battlefield where real men displayed real courage and bravery, they would be covered in their own urine cowering behind a tree as Pickett’s charge commenced. Could you imagine any of the Soros paid professional antifa protestors charging across an open field towards certain death? Those pussies would be high tailing it south as fast as their fashion designer sneakers would take them.


Trump was absolutely correct in asking, “Where does it end?” Washington owned slaves. Do we get rid of all dollar bills and quarters? Do we change the name of our capital? Do we change the name of Washington & Lee University to Obama & Spike Lee University? Do we blow up the Washington Memorial? Jefferson owned slaves. Do we get rid of nickles? How about the Jefferson Memorial?

Why stop only in our country? The Egyptian pyramids were built by slaves. Should we tear those down? If these are symbols of hatred and racism that must be destroyed, why do we never hear calls from the left for the destruction of the Nazi death camps. Talk about symbols of hate. Why would we want to remember the holocaust? It couldn’t be that it doesn’t fit the left’s narrative.

This Confederate monument narrative is designed by the left to provoke a backlash from whites who are tired of being scorned, ridiculed, belittled and called racists, rednecks and deplorables by so called open minded progressives. It’s working. The cold race war is beginning to turn hot. The president has no intention of trying to bring the two sides together because it’s impossible at this point. That’s how Fourth Turnings roll. The mood of the country will continue to darken. Reactions to these types of events will intensify. More blood will be shed. It’s too bad these functional illiterates didn’t pay attention in history class or ever read a book. They are going to learn some harsh lessons over the next decade.



“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That’s what it is to be alive. It’s pretty dense kids who haven’t figured that out by the time they’re ten.” ? Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Hi all. I came across this earlier while watching a video Martin Brodel on YouTube. I never heard of JIm Quinn before but I can assure Im glad I did. I wish I could write with clasiry and aplomb like he hs shown here. It Pertains to the recent riots in Charlotte NC. I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

Semper Fi
Mike

Jim Quinn Rages At "Functional Illiterates Trying To Erase History"


Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,

“True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.” ? Robert E. Lee

Image result for toppled statue durham nc

I consider myself a student of history. I’ve always been fascinated by the personalities who drove events throughout history. I probably would have been a history major in college if I didn’t feel the need to make enough money to support myself and my family. I chose a business major and decided studying history would be my hobby. Over the years I’ve taken a particular interest in the Civil War. You could even call me a Civil War buff.

I’ve probably read 60 books on the Civil War, from Bruce Catton, Shelby Foote and numerous other historians. I’ve visited the Gettysburg battlefield a half dozen times, as it is only 150 miles from my home. My basement office is decorated with six prints depicting various scenes from the Civil War. One depicts Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson at Fredericksburg, another depicts Jackson leading his troops through Richmond, another depicts Grant taking command of Union forces, another shows Chamberlain leading the charge down Little Round Top, another portrays Lee and Longstreet making the fateful decision to send Pickett’s men on their futile charge into history, and the last showing the slaughter during Pickett’s charge.



I’ve even taken an executive education course in leadership where the final day is a trip to Gettysburg where a park ranger guides you through the three day battle and the professor asks you to assess the leadership shown by officers on both sides during that tide turning battle. My fascination with the Civil War isn’t based on rooting for one side or the other. I wanted to understand the motivations of the main characters and understand why and how they fought that bloody war. There were so many fateful decisions, errors of judgement, acts of courage, acts of cowardice, brilliantly bold maneuvers, and just plain good and bad luck.

Robert E. Lee, before the outbreak of the war, was overwhelmingly regarded as the finest military mind in the U.S. army. Winfield Scott offered him command of all Union forces at the outbreak of hostilities. But he chose allegiance to his state of Virginia, rather than the Federal government. He didn’t fight for slavery. He freed his slaves. He was fighting for states’ rights. He was an honorable God fearing noble man. Stonewall Jackson was an extremely religious man who waged war with a passion, but also taught Sunday School to slaves. Lee and Jackson must be viewed in the context of the 19th century rather than being judged by the standards of the 21st century.

The vast majority of Confederate soldiers who did the fighting and dying during that war didn’t own slaves. They weren’t fighting to maintain slavery. They were fighting because a foreign army had invaded their land. In 1860 this nation was more an amalgamation of states than a centralized government. States still had a tremendous amount of power and leeway to run their states the way they chose. The ever increasing power of a central authority occurred during and after the Civil War. The South were not the bad guys. Their leaders, generals and soldiers were not evil. They were Americans.

The revisionist history now being peddled by the left wing media and their non-thinking acolytes lacks a factual basis, historical context and a true understanding of history. The Civil War was the climax of decades of tension between the North and the South over states’ rights, economic policies, slavery, and a myriad of other complex issues. Examined within the context of generational theory, it was a Fourth Turning that was unavoidable. It was a crucial important event in U.S. history. It wasn’t the shameful episode portrayed by the brain dead faux journalists babbling on CNN and MSNBC.

Illegally pulling down statues of Confederate soldiers and taking videos of “brave” unemployed liberal arts major social justice warriors kicking the Confederate soldier is what passes for activism in today’s warped society. Liberal mayors and city councils across the south are falling all over themselves wasting time and taxpayer money to remove statues of Confederate generals to appease the left and make a display of how anti-racist they can be. Meanwhile, their cities are bankrupt, their infrastructure is decaying, black crime is rampant and their education systems matriculate functionally illiterate deranged snowflakes into society.

Image result for toppled statue durham ncImage result for toppled statue durham nc

These courageous left wing politicians, like the mayor of New Orleans, have statues removed in the middle of the night to avoid protests by those who understand you cannot erase history by removing statues and names. In a hysterical development, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh on Monday said in a statement she intended to move forward in removing several city statutes, including those of Lee and Stonewall Jackson. I suppose the soaring murder rate, blacks rioting and burning down neighborhoods, crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, and white flight is due to a few Confederate statues. It’s good to see this diverse mayor has her priorities in order.

The ignorance and disregard for history knows no bounds for generations taught to feel rather think in our government run indoctrination centers known as public schools. The left wing media reinforces their ignorance with misinformation, fake news and government sanctioned propaganda. Snowflakes across the land melt at anything they are instructed to find offensive. Everything and everyone who doesn’t agree with their half baked views are declared racists.

Pointing out that leftist antifa thugs, without permits to protest, initiated the violence in Charlottesville is racist. The uproar against Trump’s truthful assessment of the situation by CNN, MSNBC and Fox proves there isn’t a wit of difference among these corporate media outlets. True colors are revealed. The ongoing coup attempt against Trump continues unabated.

Trump’s impromptu press conference and his push back of this false narrative was a thing of beauty. The hypocrisy of the left and their utter contempt for facts must be thrown back in their faces at every opportunity. Across the country, 718 Confederate monuments and statues remain, with nearly 300 of them in Georgia, Virginia or North Carolina. There are also 109 public schools named for Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis or other icons of the Civil War-era South. Will the left be satisfied when all 718 monuments are destroyed and all 109 schools are renamed Oprah Winfrey Middle School? No. They will find something else to be offended about, and violently attack again.

The funniest part about watching these social justice warriors wail and gnash their teeth about the racism of these monuments is knowing these unemployed functional illiterates couldn’t tell you when the Civil War occurred, name two major battles, name five generals, provide a death count within 250,000, or fill in the blank in the phrase Surrender at __________. They don’t know jack shit about history, the Civil War, Lincoln’s true feelings about blacks, or the fact the Democratic Party is the party which suppressed blacks for one hundred years following the Civil War. Only truly ignorant snowflakes think they can erase history by protesting it and trying to destroy monuments to those who fought and died for a cause they believed in.

Do these left wing zealots have any sense of awareness? Maybe they were too busy studying for their gender studies finals to see the reports of the Taliban destroying ancient Buddhist monuments in territory they had captured. Zealots, terrorists, and extremists attempt to destroy symbols that offend them as a way to prove their strength and power. In reality, they destroy what others have built in a feckless effort to boost their self-esteem. Intellectual lightweights attempt to bring others down because they realize their lack of intelligence and inability to get ahead in life has to be blamed on someone else.

Image result for taliban blowing up buddhist statues

If these social justice warrior weaklings were transported back in time 154 years to the Gettysburg battlefield where real men displayed real courage and bravery, they would be covered in their own urine cowering behind a tree as Pickett’s charge commenced. Could you imagine any of the Soros paid professional antifa protestors charging across an open field towards certain death? Those pussies would be high tailing it south as fast as their fashion designer sneakers would take them.


Trump was absolutely correct in asking, “Where does it end?” Washington owned slaves. Do we get rid of all dollar bills and quarters? Do we change the name of our capital? Do we change the name of Washington & Lee University to Obama & Spike Lee University? Do we blow up the Washington Memorial? Jefferson owned slaves. Do we get rid of nickles? How about the Jefferson Memorial?

Why stop only in our country? The Egyptian pyramids were built by slaves. Should we tear those down? If these are symbols of hatred and racism that must be destroyed, why do we never hear calls from the left for the destruction of the Nazi death camps. Talk about symbols of hate. Why would we want to remember the holocaust? It couldn’t be that it doesn’t fit the left’s narrative.

This Confederate monument narrative is designed by the left to provoke a backlash from whites who are tired of being scorned, ridiculed, belittled and called racists, rednecks and deplorables by so called open minded progressives. It’s working. The cold race war is beginning to turn hot. The president has no intention of trying to bring the two sides together because it’s impossible at this point. That’s how Fourth Turnings roll. The mood of the country will continue to darken. Reactions to these types of events will intensify. More blood will be shed. It’s too bad these functional illiterates didn’t pay attention in history class or ever read a book. They are going to learn some harsh lessons over the next decade.



“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That’s what it is to be alive. It’s pretty dense kids who haven’t figured that out by the time they’re ten.” ? Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I agree with most of what Quinn is saying about the history of the Civil War. I've always believed the conflict was more about economic and territorial competition between states than slavery. I think the issue of slavery was just the attention getter (probably more now than it was then). This is pretty common stuff, just like religion is often used for political ambitions that need popular support like what we see in the Middle East today.

Of course the "functional illiterates" on all sides pick and choose which fallacies they want to believe, usually choosing the perspective most damaging to their political opponents. So for conservatives, the jihad is all about Islam and for liberals the Civil War was all about slavery. It's basically the same thing... a dismissal of the real issues leading to conflict for the purpose of swaying public opinions in one political direction or another.

Setting the slavery hype aside, I am far more aligned with the stance taken by the South, but then again, I *am* a Jeffersonian anti-Federalist at heart. Some of you know me as an advocate of secession (at least for California). A lot of liberals (especially those with a Libertarian spin) agree with me and it's too bad they can't see the parallel's with what the South was going through when THEY wanted to secede. I think it's a shame that the historical significance of the CSA is being buried in political misinformation because we have reached the point where the federal government has centralized too much power and it would be a great benefit to people if they could draw references and lessons from the Confederacy.

As for the misconceptions about the Civil War being all about slavery, I have to say that although it suits the anti-right narrative on the left, the blame really goes to racists on the right for being belligerent racists AND adopting the Confederacy as their icon. The Confederacy might not have been about racism in 1860, but the "alt-right" is MAKING it about racism today and THAT is what the angry left is responding to.

I guess that's the part that self-proclaimed expert Jim Quinn can't figure out... or is preferring not to because THAT would validate the left and he sure as shit doesn't want that! ;)

Sorry Tom. Have to disagree. I'm half Irish and half Indian. I can't ever remember talking to any American Indian on here or anywhere that pissed and moaned because we were slaughtered and our lands were taken away.

How do we teach our young ones that parts of our history were bad. Yes there are evil parts, but it is a part of OUR history. It happened, quit trying to pretend it didn't by taking down all confederate statues. I really don't understand why people would be offended, it DID NOT happen to them personally or even their grandparents. If everything is gone how do these people teach their children that part of history which was bad????? Geeze.......

Symbols matter more than speeches or lessons in history class. Again, these monuments and memorials came at a time when the South was looking to inflect on its populace the presiding culture of White Supremacy. That's it! It was a message directed at the Black population. Those statues spoke and said, "This is what we honor, what we find true and grand": those who fought to preserve slavery. Those who betrayed the US of A. For Blacks, it was an everyday Jewish experience of being under the gaze of Baal. Or Hitler. Those statues said grandly and matter-of-factly to Blacks, "We still own you."

Symbols are always weapons, for good or evil. The cross, the hammer and sickle, the smiley face, and so on.

I agree with most of what Quinn is saying about the history of the Civil War. I've always believed the conflict was more about economic and territorial competition between states than slavery. I think the issue of slavery was just the attention getter (probably more now than it was then). This is pretty common stuff, just like religion is often used for political ambitions that need popular support like what we see in the Middle East today.

Of course the "functional illiterates" on all sides pick and choose which fallacies they want to believe, usually choosing the perspective most damaging to their political opponents. So for conservatives, the jihad is all about Islam and for liberals the Civil War was all about slavery. It's basically the same thing... a dismissal of the real issues leading to conflict for the purpose of swaying public opinions in one political direction or another.

Setting the slavery hype aside, I am far more aligned with the stance taken by the South, but then again, I *am* a Jeffersonian anti-Federalist at heart. Some of you know me as an advocate of secession (at least for California). A lot of liberals (especially those with a Libertarian spin) agree with me and it's too bad they can't see the parallel's with what the South was going through when THEY wanted to secede. I think it's a shame that the historical significance of the CSA is being buried in political misinformation because we have reached the point where the federal government has centralized too much power and it would be a great benefit to people if they could draw references and lessons from the Confederacy.

As for the misconceptions about the Civil War being all about slavery, I have to say that although it suits the anti-right narrative on the left, the blame really goes to racists on the right for being belligerent racists AND adopting the Confederacy as their icon. The Confederacy might not have been about racism in 1860, but the "alt-right" is MAKING it about racism today and THAT is what the angry left is responding to.

I guess that's the part that self-proclaimed expert Jim Quinn can't figure out... or is preferring not to because THAT would validate the left and he sure as shit doesn't want that! ;)

The OP reeks of the "Lost Cause" rendition of the Civil War. It's so full of BS and I'm ashamed of all of you who agree with its historically proven bias.

You can deny that slavery wasn't the driving factor of the Civil War all you want, but anynargument you can prodipuce can easily be shown to have its origin in slavery.

States' Rights: the desire of the slave-holding ststes to be able to take their slaves into the new territories.

Economy: the South's economy was based on slaves while the North's was based on paid labor.

Slavery: this should be obvious. The South wanted slavery to continue while the North was, at its worst, ambivalent about it.

Strong central Federal government vs. a weak Federal government: if you have read history as you claim, you'd know that the weak Federal government approach was tried and failed. It was under the Articles of Confederation that a weak Federal governemt was tried and it proved a total failure. Each state was making its own currency, had its own weights and measures, charged tolls to enter from one state into another, disrespected one another's laws, and, generally, thought of themselves as several free and independent countries.

No matter what your arguement/claim is regarding what caused the Civil War, slavery was always front and center as its basis.

As to taking pride in ones "heritage," that's all well and good. But, if ones heritage included an armed insurrection against the government; a heritage that resulted in the loss of about 850,000 people, the decimation of an entire generation, all over something you, now, claim you distain, then, I'd say that's not something to be very proud of. While you may claim to not be racist, your heritage says volumes to the contrary.

As to the "Confederates" protecting their "country from an invading army," that's total BS! "The Confederste States of America" existed in name, only. NO other country in the world recognized the CSA as a free, self-governing and independent country.

As to an "invading army," the "Rebels" were the "invading army." The armies that were formed by the insurrectionists, under the pretext of forming their own country, were the armies who were the "invaders." They invaded Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Pennsylvania, causing death and destruction in their wakes. That the Union armies "invaded" a foreign country is ridiculous! The Union armies went into States who were in rebellion against the legitimate government of the United States and went in said states to put down the rebellion/insurrection. Again, the "Confederate States of America" NEVER existed as a free and independent country. It was the dream (nightmare, actually) of a bunch of rich, plantation owners, who wanted to be able to ignore the laws they felt prevented them from becoming more rich, that never became a reality.

So, for some of you history revisionists to whine and cry about the removal of statues to the leaders of a rebellion, I say, "Get over it! Those statues should've never been erected to begin with."

No matter how much you try to re-write history, you'll never be able to justify the reasons you propose for having fought our Civil War. Read about. Study it. Research the military stragety and tactics. But, don't try to justify the Southern reasonings that the Civil War was a legitimate cause.