Comments on: The game of telephone and the difference between “enjoy” and “great” https://thenewneo.com/2020/06/27/the-game-of-telephone-and-the-difference-between-enjoy-and-great/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 30 Jun 2020 01:18:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Brian Morgan https://thenewneo.com/2020/06/27/the-game-of-telephone-and-the-difference-between-enjoy-and-great/#comment-2503117 Tue, 30 Jun 2020 01:18:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=97593#comment-2503117 The South was allowed to build memorials to their dead in the same manner that America allowed the Japanese to grieve for theirs. In the end, after you defeat the enemy, you need to rebuild. If you choose to humiliate them then you open yourself up to never-ending hostilities. In my travels I’ve seen more racial disharmony in the North than in the South. Of course it is up to the voters but I think that the radical Left is galvanizing public opinion against themselves.

]]> By: MBunge https://thenewneo.com/2020/06/27/the-game-of-telephone-and-the-difference-between-enjoy-and-great/#comment-2503115 Tue, 30 Jun 2020 01:10:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=97593#comment-2503115 “But since you ask then Confederate statues can officially go. Everything else is fine.”

So…you support a monument to that infamous owner AND rapist of slaves, Thomas Jefferson? Wow, you are one big, fat, hateful bigot.

Mike

]]> By: Montage https://thenewneo.com/2020/06/27/the-game-of-telephone-and-the-difference-between-enjoy-and-great/#comment-2503113 Tue, 30 Jun 2020 01:00:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=97593#comment-2503113 Om
The idea of destroying or taking down statues is not something I would do.
But since you ask then Confederate statues can officially go. Everything else is fine. The Confederacy was a lost cause and an asterisk in American history. Make a museum for their cause if you want. But it’s not my decision and shouldn’t be. Let the voters in each state decide.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2020/06/27/the-game-of-telephone-and-the-difference-between-enjoy-and-great/#comment-2503042 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:18:21 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=97593#comment-2503042 Montage:

Please list the statues which you deem merit destruction. Should be interesting to match that to what the mob considers irredeemable. Do be complete and anticipate their future demands. Can’t have a disordered random approach to this reasonable process.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2020/06/27/the-game-of-telephone-and-the-difference-between-enjoy-and-great/#comment-2503040 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:09:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=97593#comment-2503040 Montage:

The sculptor had a whole mountain to work with and yet he didn’t include any Native Americans, POOCs (People Of Other Colors), or alphabet people. Therefor it must come down. Who is to decide these four dead white males deserve a monument? The mob, that’s who. Run with the mob, die by the mob, that’s how it works, even for you.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2020/06/27/the-game-of-telephone-and-the-difference-between-enjoy-and-great/#comment-2503037 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:11:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=97593#comment-2503037 Montage:

If the Museum of Natural History heads had one day voted to take down the TR statue, and his family agreed, I wouldn’t really care, if it was done in a different context. It would be just their decision. And in the legal sense it actually still IS their decision.

But that’s not what’s being objected to. However this was decided, and although it’s not part of the vogue of the mob tearing down statues, this is still a part of a mass movement to destroy our history and to lie about some of it as well. Only the negative is taught, and since everything has some negative It Must Be Destroyed. There is nothing to replace it but jargon and lies and leftism.

It started a long time ago – Zinn being a major practitioner, but he wasn’t even the first. That’s what this is about – not this statue, or what the museum people decided, or what Roosevelt’s descendants want. In fact, I’m not a TR fan myself.

]]> By: Bryan Lovely https://thenewneo.com/2020/06/27/the-game-of-telephone-and-the-difference-between-enjoy-and-great/#comment-2503035 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:09:27 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=97593#comment-2503035 Henry David —

Other than the TDS and this third-party unity candidacy nonsense, Weinstein is very much worth listening to. He and his wife very accurately diagnose what’s going on with the left lately and how it was prefigured by his Evergreen experience.

His talk with his brother Eric a couple weeks ago was remarkable for its range — Eric explains 14-dimension physics, for instance — and was mostly about stultification in the sciences and how it relates to stultification in the general culture.

I know TDS is hard to wade through, but it’s not the focus of the podcast/Youtube channel at all.

]]> By: MBunge https://thenewneo.com/2020/06/27/the-game-of-telephone-and-the-difference-between-enjoy-and-great/#comment-2503034 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:39:13 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=97593#comment-2503034 “I don’t approve of the destruction of many of the statues or covering up history.”

Yes, you seem really worked up over it. I’m sure when people are actively trying to get Mt. Rushmore dynamited, you’ll be first in line to denounce that and won’t come up with some new excuse for why that is okay.

Mike

]]> By: Henry David https://thenewneo.com/2020/06/27/the-game-of-telephone-and-the-difference-between-enjoy-and-great/#comment-2503032 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:42:26 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=97593#comment-2503032 Your post just soured me on Weinstein, just another “expert” professor spouting his own BS.

]]> By: Montage https://thenewneo.com/2020/06/27/the-game-of-telephone-and-the-difference-between-enjoy-and-great/#comment-2503031 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 16:30:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=97593#comment-2503031 Om
Mt Rushmore would only be similar if it had four smaller heads of Native Americas and /or Blacks below the prominent heads. So in this instance, it is not similar. I have not heard an opinion by any of Roosevelt’s family on it. Some Native Americans do want it to come down though – mainly because it is on what is considered sacred land. There has been a proposed Crazy Horse monument a few miles away that has yet to be completed.
I don’t approve of the destruction of many of the statues or covering up history. I would rather instead see more statues that include diversity in our history. That’s an idea that few seem to consider.

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