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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This entire thread is an example of why these monuments need to be removed,  schools need names  changed, and a lot of history needs to be taught.

Can you imagine that here we are, in 2022, explaining why slavery was bad? This entire thread is frightening.

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Well this thread is also very biased. What percent of these posters you think are from VA as opposed to Dc or Md? Probably only half. Also take into account the political biases, it’s not representative of the state at all.[/quote]

Really? What do you think would be “representative of the state” — which includes everything from southwestern Virginia to the DC suburbs? Are there views “representative of the state” that somehow include the FFVs, the Ballston Bros, the recent suburban transplants, the immigrants, the longtime rural communities AND the 20% of the population that’s made up of non-monolithic Black communities?

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Well this forum is made of people who come from the DC area, so i would doubt those from southwest virginia or even people from as south as fredericksburg engaging in it. Obviously it would be more insightful to get the standpoints of people from all across the state, as these monuments are concentrated from anywhere from Arlington to Richmond to Southwestern Virginia. [/quote]

I’m not questioning the value of having insights that are “representative of the state”. I’m asking what that would look like since the PP has decided that “this thread is…very biased”.   
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Various county elected officials and board members have voted to keep these monuments and statues in place throughout Virginia. County-wide Referendums across the state have also indicated that the majority of the voters do not want to remove these statues. [/quote]

We sure have some "very fine" racists here in VA. 
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Wanting to keep confederate monuments does not equal being a racist. Are you that ignorant? [/quote]

Please list all of the non-racist reasons for keeping monuments to white supremacy. Try not to sound like a racist when you list them out. 
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NP. I don’t really have a strong opinion on this particular issue, I just don’t want to be like the liberals in Maryland and DC. I think this whole DMV thing is a bunch of bs, these New York migrants have an identity crisis and want to be so superior and different from the rest of Virginia yet send their kids to UVA and VT. Go try finding this acronym in border crossing states like St. Louis or Kansas City. They’ll get a good chuckle. Back in the day all the liberal minded folks would move to Maryland and the conservatives would move to Virginia. Then they all started to get jealous of the low taxes and better way of living and started to infest our beautiful southern state. Take me back please. [/quote]

Be wary, theyre spreading like termites through the core all the way to loudoun and pw county now. [/quote]

That kind of dehumanizing language (“termite”, “infest”) often precedes genocide. Germany, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda. This thread is scary.[/quote]

I agree - although I suspect this is just one racist in VA sock-puppeting supportive replies.
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PP here. Racism is a overreaching statement that does not characterize the vast majority of confederate statue defenders. Is Glenn Youngkin a racist? Are all republicans racist? Racism is not a one all be all, is not appropriate to label people as such. [/quote]

Who cares. The statues are being taken down. End of an era, end of story to most people. Focus on other things.[/quote]
Not if this guy has anything to say about it.
[twitter]https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1549049106907410432?s=21&t=7gMm2xs6bEL4EKfGEOp47w[/twitter][/quote]

And… she’s gone!
“Ann Hunter McLean, a historian who defends Confederate statues and asserts that slavery was not the primary cause of the Civil War, has resigned from the Virginia Board of Historic Resources over what a spokesman for Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) called a disagreement about priorities.
“After discussion about our Administration’s goals and priorities and Dr. McLean’s, Dr. McLean resigned,” Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said via text message. The resignation was effective Monday. Youngkin had appointed McLean, the former head of a Christian school, to the board in mid-July.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/03/youngkin-appointee-resigns-confederate-statues/?utm_campaign=wp_afternoon_buzz&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_buzz&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F378cd7d%2F62ead4bccfe8a2160118075d%2F596bc2b7ae7e8a44e7dcaab7%2F13%2F57%2F62ead4bccfe8a2160118075d&wp_cu=dbe1f73d84dff07b8d1a5ed1a90fac97%7CC0E147FCFF342B4AE0430100007F6711[/quote]

Good riddance.

Disgusting that she was ever nominated in the first place. 
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