fluff rainbow

*shrugs*
IM a special little snowflake...

We know, we all know :-)

The slippery slope argument is the easy one to use for people who just don't want anything to change.

"We can't have universal background checks on guns because we'll end up with the government raiding our homes taking away all our guns!"

"We can't let them take down a flag that 30% of the population finds hateful towards their racial group because next thing you know, our rights to free speech will be gone!"

The fact is, except in very rare, extreme cases, the "slippery slope" outcome never happens.
It's just a way for people to fearmonger the masses to try to protect the status quo.

I'd argue that if there are a bunch of flags and statues on public property that symbolized the oppression of a group within our society, especially when that group is 30% of the state's population in South Carolina, that perhaps it shouldn't have taken until 2015. And if private citizens or corporations are making decisions about the Confederate flag or about statues of Confederate war figures, then, in actuality, they're just exercising their own freedom of speech or expression to take those down.

Of course, instead, we could go with the whole "We white people are being oppressed" argument.

last I checked 30% wasn't a majority and the US is supposed to be a democracy (as laughable as that last bit is)

Too bad you never learned anything from your namesake, bro. He would see things in their proper light, not some disfunctinoal "Why can't we all get along" bullfluff view.

Holy fluff... do you really not understand the concept of "tyranny of the majority" and why it is a bad thing?

The US was never a democracy, it is and has been a republic.

In related news...

http://www.motherjones.com/...erate-flags-oklahoma-city

BTW, the above is also interesting since Oklahoma wasn't even part of the Confederacy....

OMG, you read that liberal feminazi rag Mother Jones? No wonder you're so brain damaged.

I have no idea what you are talking about. This appeared on a ton of sites after the image was posted to Twitter. Pick any of them and stop ignoring the point.

https://youtu.be/sls5H4xVHys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9kNfxk1Wt8

Here is the reality of the worthless confederate flag.

https://youtu.be/qDhddJg5rGA

long live the south we will rise again

Man, are any of you capable of responding with anything other than some youtube video or a knee-jerk insult?

Yes. Scroll way way back on my post history. I have my moments.

Btw. Go fluff yourself.

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*farts and wafts to my nose*

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Because I'm sure you're an expert on Mark Twain's views, right?
Like, you've studied him extensively?
Like, you've taken numerous classes on American Literature and read his collected works?
Like, you've earned multiple degrees in Literature and Rhetoric and know what you're talking about?