MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to their digital cars

Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by mikepurvis on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:12PM (#23716856)

So the statues belong in museums and history textbooks, not the public square:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/19/destroying...

It feels tired to still be repeating this when so many others have said it, but Germany is capable of learning about Hitler and Nazism without the monuments glorifying it; Americans can learn about Robert E. Lee without the whitewashed monuments everywhere. And anyway, there was none of this clutching of pearls about history-erasure when the Saddam Hussein statue was toppled in Baghdad in 2003.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by beaner on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:17PM (#23716912)

I think you're still taking as a foregone conclusion that (all of) the statues represent bad men with evil ideas, and that's what I'm disagreeing with.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by klmadfejno on Thursday July 02, 2020 @03:58PM (#23717346)

Then it's a good thing people aren't toppling statues randomly.

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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by beaner on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:54PM (#23718516)

I mean all of the statues that are in fact being toppled.

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