Thread:High Prince Imrahil/@comment-26210095-20160718114659/@comment-26347028-20160718191624

High Prince Imrahil wrote: Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote: Patrick.vtap wrote: I don't think some of the men were bad, but the institution they stood for was. But I really don't want to bring the debate here. I didn't say they were horrible... I said the Confederacy was, and that flag represented that... Just gonna point that out here and now... If I rember correctly, you said that The Confederacy was comparable to Nazism, and that by sympothising with them, I was a horrible person. How much more so for the people that actually fought for the south and paid the price in blood? Who supported the cause to the point of giving their lives for it? If The Confederacy were truly the 1800s KKK you make it out to be, how evil must those people be? A cause and the people that support it are intertwined, and inseperable in terms of morality. By calling The Confederacy evil and racist, you call the people that support it evil and racist. Here we go. While yes, I did compare it to Nazism in terms of the views of superiority, I did not directly call you horrible. When I brought up your ex-girlfriend, that was more on the premise that you never actually told me anything about the circumstances and I was in a bit of a foul mood at the time. And I never made any direct allegations. (While, yes, that was entirely out of order in a way.) Your whole suggestion of my views is based upon the assumption that I believe everyone who supports the Confederacy is a racist. No, I believe everyone who knows what it is and still defends them to be a racist. You want to defend the people? Fine. You want to defend the flag? Not fine. That represents the Confederacy itself, not the people of the South. I have no qualms so much with the people who weren't so horrible, merely with those who were. If the people truly supported it, then yes they were horrible. But if they didn't, then they weren't so certainly horrible. That's all I have to say.