@Crush Said
The range of acceptable thought is routinely under attack, as the flag controversy demonstrates. Both
de jure and
de facto speech is censored throughout the Western world. The reactions of many people in this thread to unorthodox views is a perfect example.
You present yourself as a conservative and your ideas as conservative ideas. Many of the people that disagree with you are liberals, or at least more liberal than you.
You are actually the one that wants to censor peoples thoughts and actions. Pretty ironically trite of you.
@Crush Said
You fear being a thoughtcriminal.
Your application of "thought criminal" concept is moronic.
Regardless... I am apparently a "thought criminal" in your conservative belief system.
@Crush Said
...and other attempts to censor Southern history is very clearly banishing history.
Feel free to share your examples of southern history being banished from history.
@Crush Said
Also, I find it very telling that you somehow think sales of conformist books that present only the standard view is somehow proof of history thriving.
Feel free to share the names and authors of some of your "non conformist books" on southern history.
@Crush Said
The only way you can honestly state that is if you've never had an unacceptable thought. I believe that to be the case.
The only way you can say that anyone is policing your thoughts is if you have a very serious case of paranoid delusions. I'm told that there is medicine for this sort of thing.
@Crush Said
More proof of what a well conditioned serf you are. I've studied the Civil War extensively. But because I don't agree with you, you equate that with ignorance. It's also risible that you hold university courses as some gold standard.
You may have studied the Civil War extensively, but you apparently weren't paying full attention. NOT because you don't agree with me, but because of the inaccuracies in the information you present.
And I don't equate not having a university degree with ignorance nor university courses as "some gold standard". I was merely suggesting that you need to do more research on the topic as you don't seem of fully grasp it, and universities have classes that might help get you started. You could try a high school, they have classes also. Or maybe to some comprehensive and objective research on the topic at hand.
Whatever you have been doing so far hasn't worked.
@Crush Said
But, you'll just get all flustered reading the above
If you think that you in any way "fluster" me, you have a bizarre view of your self importance.
@Crush Said
Bottom line, you're a pleb.
Typical tactic of the person who knows that their position is unsupported by facts: Resort to name calling.
Of course I would much rather be a pleb than a self important twit with delusions of intellectual grandeur.
So, I thank you for the complement.