The story is of a kid getting sent to the principal's office, not even her getting really punished. And notice how the OP is just complaining instead of articulating a framework for the discussion that could be fruitful. That's a hallmark of these kinds of threads.
Most of the ones having to do with that trend don't.
Weren't you the one saying you are contrarion here simply for the purpose of rustling jimmies. I think that is a pretty good example of why threads get dumped or deleted rather than some censorship crusade.
Hey, no cheating. You have to make your own 10 best posters list!
You seem to not be the only one. I think any censorship is due to people trying to out-non-pc each other or dicks just being intentionally antagonizing rather than some political agenda. There also appears to be a few who are incapable of actually forming coherent arguments so they can do nothing but derail threads.
I would be too but I don't scour the internet to find a story that would trigger my outrage which is what that thread is an example of.
Its not a serious issue and its not rewriting of history. Moving Confederate monuments doesn't change what's in history books. If anything its the defenders of the monuments rewriting history since most of the Confederate monuments were put up in the Jim Crow era as a sign of resistance to Northern pressures to integrate.
When you have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find such non-stories as that one I'm going to call it outrage porn because that's exactly what it is.
Yes it does because that's the history behind the monuments, that history that you were talking about earlier. Its an ugly one and one some cities seem too think shouldn't be on public land and there's nothing wrong with that. Your argument here is that the monuments should remain because they've been there for a while. At that point their only historical significance is to the city its standing in and if they democratically decide to remove it I see no issue.
The standard of outrage has been lowered precisely because of this kind of histrionics. The media delivers on the outrage porn since they know there's a demand for it but the life of everyday Americans is not what you think it is.
These statues aren't comparable to Aushwitz because they're not a part of Civil War history, they came afterwards. Something more comparable to Aushwitz would be the numerous plantations across the South which have been preserved and now act as historical sites people can visit. Tearing one of those down would make less sense to me since that would be destroying history. But moving some statues built in the Jim Crow era because the city is now embarrassed of them makes sense.
