Maybe don't invoke Rodney King next time.

It is satisfying to see you try and deflect.

Not really the first thing I think of when a statue is stolen. It could be my naivety, regardless of the nature of the statue itself. Everything has to be polarized

No one is invoking Rodney King, so I’m not even sure where you got that from and I’m certainly not deflecting. My point is the same. There are groups here in Richmond that seem to want to remember the Civil War and still try to fight it. I see it every day. There’s also groups who want to riot and tear down statues instead of doing things the proper way. Those are the groups at odds with each other, and the rest of us are just caught in the middle.

Those who preach tolerance are often the least tolerant.

And for those looking at this as a political statement, the reality is that there are extremists on BOTH sides that fit this description ... they're just intolerant on different issues. Blaming the 'other side' is a huge part of the problem in this country IMHO.

Regardless of the motive, cutting down that statue and burning it is despicable.

jeff

Well said.

Agreed. Generalizing and finger pointing have polarized the country. Whereas a small percentage, the outliers, seem to garner the most attention and people are "lumped" Into groups


The idiots tried to melt it in a trash can. Regardless of race creed or religion. They are idiots! Highly doubt it was race motivated. Although either side can likely find a ulterior motive once the person are caught. I won't pontificate on where the dividing line will be based on perps ethnic demographic

Occam’s razor? Probably can’t rule out good ole vandalism for the sake of good ole vandalism.

You just did.

Finger in your holster already?

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Nah, you've got it covered with your double-barrel action.

One for each side of the aisle!

There are pro-Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthi riots all over cities in America right now. There are Michigan religious leaders praising the Oct 7 terror attacks in Israel. Bridges, train stations and airports in NYC have been shut down by protesters calling for the genocide of Jews and the destruction of Israel and America. I'm fully armed walking to my office now, as there have been violent protests right in front of my building. If any of the protesters believed I was Jewish I'd be attacked in a second.

You'll excuse me if I find this more concerning than a fucking statue that was stolen, the political motive behind it still unknown. I can promise you that the people calling for my head outside my office last week were not Republicans. The country is divided, is my point, and the Jackie Robinson statue being stolen is not the best example of it.

If the people who absconded with the Jackie Robinson statue are bronze/brass/copper/aluminum scrapping meth addicts as I suspect then they are more than likely white.

Well, this thread has officially gone off the rails.

I certainly didn't have "I'm more persecuted than blacks are right now" on my stolen Jackie Robinson statue bingo card, but here we are.

For what it's worth, I have enough bandwidth to simultaneously condemn anti-semitic terrorism and acknowledge that racism against blacks is still a significant problem. Getting a raw deal isn't a zero-sum game.

If the Hank Greenberg statue outside Comerica is cut off at the feet and left in a burn barrel, I promise not to shout down any speculation that it could be something more than meth addicts looking for scrap. And if it turns out it really is just meth addicts looking for scrap, then I won't think any less of those who initially feared that it was motivated by animus.

Very well said and I completely agree.

This thread went off the rails when a series of politically expedient assumptions without a single shred of available evidence to support them were immediately made, and then quickly pivoted into openly arguing that people who don't share their leftist views should be made to be "out of the way and gone." I wonder how the elimination of dissenters would be accomplished? How does a political faction get "out of the way and gone" with huge swaths of the citizen population?

I am much more concerned by the growing open hope of the eradication of everyone else by the 'tolerant' than I am 3 dudes stealing a statue for unknown reason at this point in time.

Very well said and I completely agree.

Refreshing to read.

Gives me hope that more are awake than what it appears sometimes. :)

I knew right away where this thread was going when I saw the original post lmao this is why I stopped going on this board

Anyways here’s my favorite Jackie Robinson card that I own! Shoutout to the MLB for stepping up to replace the statue https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...5f4f3ec0f7.jpg


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It certainly doesn't help national unity by the House's position on the bipartisan Senate Immigration Bill, one of the best pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in some time.

Some want to reduce illegal immigration. Some want to expedite it by processing it faster.

What some people never seem to figure out is the concept of unintended consequences. Or, what message is being sent, and therefore what happens next.

Giving prepaid debit cards away free to people whom have crossed our borders illegally, and setting up and advertising such things as "sanctuary cities," create magnets for much much more of the same. These things do not solve a problem. They put a band-aid on the immediate crisis, but ensure the underlying problem will become much more severe.

You can look at a map of the world, and you see little lines around all the countries. These are called borders. Some wonder why we can't have these things called borders, without them being systematically erased due to bad policy.

Why do your job when you can get paid to do nothing and blame your inaction on someone else?

Leon, can you lock down this dumpster fire of a thread before it gets any sillier?

https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-conte...9-05.jpg?w=834

It's not a party until someone asks for the thread to be shut down.

I was hoping that before it gets locked they could clarify what exactly getting all of the population who disagree with them "out of the way and gone" means. Surely advocating massive scale violence breaks a rule :rolleyes:

Those who preach tolerance ...

jeff