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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:16PM (#23715508)
What do you think of the counterargument about statues? A few years ago, the idea that removing Confederate statues might lead to removing statues of founding fathers was considered an absurd slippery slope argument; a few days ago, the New York Times published an opinion piece arguing that statues of George Washington should be torn down. How can we be confident that this isn't a step down that same slope?
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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by mikepurvis on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:32PM (#23715750)
The NYT opinion page is hardly a barometer of broad public consensus— see the recent scandal of the Tom Cotton "send in the military" piece.
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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:01PM (#23716114)
I'm not sure I follow. Opinion polls at the time showed that a significant majority of the public wanted the military sent in.
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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by mikepurvis on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:05PM (#23716777)
Most of the coverage I saw was people horrified at the constitutional implications of the military being turned on US citizens, on US soil, by order of the president.
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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday July 02, 2020 @04:13PM (#23717498)
I mean, there just aren't any constitutional implications - it happened in 1992 with no lasting repercussions.
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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by ceejayoz on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:10PM (#23718109)
There are constitutional implications to the use of the Insurrection Act against largely peaceful demonstrations, like the ones in DC at the time it was invoked.

The First Amendment does not protect riots, but it does protect protests outside the White House.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by rickbutton on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:00PM (#23716720)
source?
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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by vimy on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:30PM (#23715729)
Statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and even Lincoln have already been attacked by the mob. Mount Rushmore is now a symbol of white supremacy. The Emancipation Memorial, paid for by former slaves, is also considered racist now. Boston is going to remove it. The slippery slope has turned into a slide with no end in sight.

https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/boston-art-commissio...

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by ceejayoz on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:34PM (#23715771)
From your own link:

> But Blacks weren’t part of the design process, and the memorial’s central visual takeaway — a Black man kneeling before his white savior — has had people cringing for years.

They paid for it, but didn't get to have input on how it'd look. Seems like the precise sort of thing folks are upset about.

Rushmore was a treaty violation from the very beginning, and Native Americans occupied it as far back as 1971 in protest.

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