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Taking down the Confederate flag in SC, digging up Confederate soldiers in TN, what does this fix?
None of these actions will stop or fix racism. Racism starts in the home at the very core level of what our parents believe or don't believe. Children are not born with bias they are taught bias. Maybe you had an experience which made you not like a particular person or group. What was it that made you apply it to all of that race? Predisposition? All of this nonsense about removing symbols as a way of stifling racism is not going to work. The only purposes it serves are immediate and self gratification. We believe what we believe because of what we have been taught, what our experiences have been, what we are shown on mass media (not thinking for ourselves), and or peer pressure aka coercion by those we associate with. Ok I'll get off my soap box now.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/23/confederate-flag-racism_n_7647194.html
None of these actions will stop or fix racism. Racism starts in the home at the very core level of what our parents believe or don't believe. Children are not born with bias they are taught bias. Maybe you had an experience which made you not like a particular person or group. What was it that made you apply it to all of that race? Predisposition? All of this nonsense about removing symbols as a way of stifling racism is not going to work. The only purposes it serves are immediate and self gratification. We believe what we believe because of what we have been taught, what our experiences have been, what we are shown on mass media (not thinking for ourselves), and or peer pressure aka coercion by those we associate with. Ok I'll get off my soap box now.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/23/confederate-flag-racism_n_7647194.html
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This is yet another example of the overly sensitive times we are living in. I truly feel as a culture we need to embrace our past and openly talk about the mistakes that were made throughout our history. The time and effort being put into pacifying an overly sensitive society will not fix the current struggles we are experiencing.
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It fixes absolutely nothing. All it does is create more segregation. I thought this was 2015, not 1955
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I think CPT (Join to see) said it very well above, this type of action only serves to provide immediate self-gratification to a select few.
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This is a knee jerk reaction to a few people who want to push the right buttons. We need not to for get our history no matter how bad or good it is.
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Immediate gratification or pacification for a select few that only exaggerates how divided our country is on certain issues.
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It won't fix anything. You cannot regulate thought. The free-speech of it can be suppressed, but only through intimidation/coercion. People will still think and feel the way they do, but silently. Personally, I believe it makes it worse when someone's choice is taken away. People have a right to think and feel in any manner, it's what we do that defines our moral obligation to society.
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