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Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭✭✭
Looking at the recent news items regarding the vandalism of Confederate monuments across the South.  "They send the wrong message" is the mantra. 

I have to wonder if the people behind this know the message?

So, here it is, from the man himself:

What's wrong with it?


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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain

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  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,643 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2017
    I am no wordsmith, but the use of the semicolons seem wrong.  :s 
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  • LiquidChaos66LiquidChaos66 Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭✭
    Its sad to have monuments torn down like that. Sure it was during a hard time in our countries history... but it was a massive growth point for the US. We learn and grow daily but we don't discard the memories of what got us to this point. .... I hope that makes sense.
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  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Guitarded said:
    I am no wordsmith, but the use of the semicolons seem wrong.  :s 
    Harcourt & Brace 11th edition, section 14a, p146:

    "Use the semicolon between two main clauses not linked by a coordinating conjunction.

    The coordinating conjunctions are and, but, for, or, nor, so, yet."

    Seems right.
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    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • YaksterYakster Posts: 25,529 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hmm, I count three clauses, though.
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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 25,529 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2017
    Not going to touch this one with a ten foot pole.
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  • johnnyBjohnnyB Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Let us not forget that there are more slave's today than there ever was in America. The word slave comes from the old word slav's who were white people taken hostage by muslim invaders.
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  • jd50aejd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And the new haters do not have a clue about our history. They get it all they know from the movies and the news media. And let us not forget the indoctrination centers.
  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,405 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jd50ae said:
    And the new haters do not have a clue about our history. They get it all they know from the movies and the news media. And let us not forget the indoctrination centers.
    Yep.  Revisionist history is just another form of demagoguery.  I suggest any who've skimmed this thread go back to the top and read Jefferson Davis' words again.

    What is said?

    The message is simple.  Acknowledgement, Acceptance, Hope.

    Why are they killing that message?

    To instill hate in a new generation.
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    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bob_Luken said:
    That's brilliant.

    And Penelope is hot.


    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)


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