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that was a good approach from the American President.Quote:
Originally Posted by metswon69
American citizens have a right to protest. there is no fine print on who can and can not protest, what they can protest for. people don't have to like it but that is the 1st Amendment.
Protesting in approval of racist monuments and racist symbolism is not something any other president in our lifetime would have supported. But keep telling yourself that this is about the right to protest.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpecialFNK
Well we haven't had a president who viewed himself as the natural successor to Jefferson Davis in quite some time.Quote:
Originally Posted by metswon69
Actually, we only have once. And he was a black man.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbroncos78087
You forgot to call him a douchebag.Quote:
Originally Posted by dbroncsinmo
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My bad. You're a douchebag dbroncos.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pierzynski4Prez
the reason doesn't change the right to protest.Quote:
Originally Posted by metswon69
Again no president in their right mind would have supported the reason why those people were protesting except Trump.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpecialFNK
I seem to remember Trump being super supportive of people protesting during his rallies. Didn't at all fantasize out loud about how they would've been beaten up back in the good old days.
There were probably a few presidents who were more than a bit sympathetic to treason.Quote:
Originally Posted by metswon69
Trump wasn't supporting the reason, he was supporting the right to protest because they supported the reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by metswon69
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...of_139815.html
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“Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.”
Are you seriously trying to argue Trump is not for keeping confederate statues up?Quote:
Originally Posted by SpecialFNK
Yes he was. He's clearly justifying that position right in what you highlighted. Supported their reason to protest because some of those people thought the statue was important and that they didn't want to see the park renamed.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpecialFNK
When the only rhetoric that should have come out his dumb mouth was that those people were misguided in what they support and that they shouldn't support the continuation of racist symbolism in 2017. What world is it okay to come to memorialize a racist, slave owning, general in war that was fought for reasons we wouldn't dream of today?
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Originally Posted by valade16
not really about whether he is or isn't in general, it's why he said what he did about Charlottesville.Quote:
Originally Posted by metswon69
that is why I underlined, to them. he felt it was important to them, and they had a right to protest.
You highlighted something that Trump found justification in why those people wanted to keep up a racist statue. Follow along with your own quotes.Quote:
Originally Posted by SpecialFNK