(05-12-2017 12:54 PM)LeFlâneur Wrote:  

(05-12-2017 12:41 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-12-2017 12:37 PM)LeFlâneur Wrote:  Do you really think that the stunt at St Olaf's helped the cause of blacks?

Absolutely! Any time you expose racist feelings that are underlying within a community, at the very least the exposure is a positive thing. Perhaps nothing concrete will come of it, this time, but history can't be redacted so easily these days. This happened, and it can't be taken back.

So where do you draw the line? If a fake stunt helped the cause, what would something more dramatic accomplish? How far do you take the fake stunt before it becomes too far? How about spray painting the N word on a student's car? Or maybe, a few blacks can put on white hoods and assault another black student. Wouldn't that cause a national outrage?

That would be good for the cause of exposing racism. Wouldn't it?

She would love a good lynching around which she and her ilk could rally.

(05-12-2017 10:38 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-12-2017 01:50 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  If you studied the Spanish American war

Maybe we did ... don't recall. It has been a looooooong time, my man.

Point is -- as you know, and as you knew when you selected the example, probably for this very reason -- you'd be lucky if 1 in 10,000 had any clue what you were talking about.

(05-12-2017 01:50 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  "Those that do not learn from history....."

So you're saying racism didn't exist back during the Spanish-American war?

Or did you just not have a point at all, in post #62?

(05-12-2017 04:28 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  You yourself ADVOCATED just that Bison.

If you don't understand that being OK with something has nothing to do with advocating it, then I'm not sure I'll be able to help you.

So once you understand that, then you'll understand why I don't advocate it.

Please keep responding with your drivel. I haven't had this much fun since the dogs ate my baby brother.

(05-12-2017 12:28 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  nativist-white-Christian-male-hetrosexual-conservative

and proud.

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(05-13-2017 07:52 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-12-2017 11:17 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  yet it was off the top of my head. And quite a few other posters on this forum.

(05-12-2017 11:17 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  2/2 in my house.

Which does nothing to disprove my claim. In fact, it probably bolsters it. Anyway ...

(05-12-2017 11:17 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  I'm saying that using false flag attacks to justify your ends is at best dubious.

So you're saying an obscure war that most Americans would not be able to recognize off the top of their heads is an appropriate analogy to racism against blacks, which this country's history is heavily steeped in?

I don't think so!

Most Americans, prior to the progressive takeover of public schools, could have told you about it.

(05-13-2017 08:30 AM)LeFlâneur Wrote:  

(05-12-2017 10:38 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  If you don't understand that being OK with something has nothing to do with advocating it, then I'm not sure I'll be able to help you.

So once you understand that, then you'll understand why I don't advocate it.

What a total wimp out. Your position mirrors the Germans who watched the Jews being led away to slaughter.

Perfect analogy.

(05-13-2017 08:39 AM)shere khan Wrote:  

(05-13-2017 08:10 AM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  

(05-13-2017 07:52 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  So you're saying an obscure war that most Americans would not be able to recognize off the top of their heads is an appropriate analogy to racism against blacks, which this country's history is heavily steeped in?

I'm saying you're an idiot or a troll.... Because really, could a functioning adult be this obtuse?

This is a more legitimate, engaging topic for assessment and academic consideration than any idea ever put fourth by the poster.

(05-13-2017 08:50 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  In other words, my arguments confound you and leave you unable to think of a counter-response.

You could just be honest about that.

De Lusion Al.

(05-13-2017 12:56 PM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote:  

(05-13-2017 09:20 AM)EigenEagle Wrote:  Did MplsBison just call the Spanish-American war "obscure"?

Baaahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!

Despite being shown it's part of the k12 school curriculum in Minnesota, yes, yes he did.

He's either calling is obscure because he rightly feels like a fool for not knowing it

or

He knows it's real and just is trolling.

She is like my son when he was a pre-teen and caught red-handed doing something wrong and rather than simply admit to it he'd double down on the denials.

(05-15-2017 01:27 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-15-2017 01:20 PM)ark30inf Wrote:  That is the statement I responded to and it is indeed incorrect regardless of context.

Absurdly false - as I just proved.

Proving something to yourself - falsely at that - is not proving something.

(05-15-2017 03:09 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-15-2017 02:22 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  I guess we can further assume these same 9,999 people aren't sure if Teddy Roosevelt is a real thing too

Doubtful. Teddy Roosevelt is the opposite of an obscure figure in American history.

The Spanish-American War is an obscure detail.

You just can't stop yourself can you. Here's a tip, when the hole you're digging gets too deep to extricate yourself you should really stop digging. There was no rise to prominence for Teddy Roosevelt without the Spanish American War. It's where he earned his street cred.

You simply cannot be this vapid AND obtuse, it has to be an act.

(05-15-2017 04:14 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-15-2017 03:57 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  How do you think Teddy Roosevelt rose to public prominence?

Teddy Roosevelt is the opposite of obscure because he was a POTUS, not because he had a role in an obscure military entanglement with Spain.

(05-15-2017 04:04 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  Trying to figure out how a war that:

A. Sparked the United STates being a world power
B. Ended Spain's colonial reign in the western hemisphere
C. Served as a launching point for the political career of one of our greatest Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt.
D. Served as the launching point of the careers of some of the most influential military officers in the first half of the 20th century, most notably John Pershing.
and
E. Led to Major Water Reed to discover that yellow fever was an insect borne pathogen and that eliminating mosquito breeding grounds helped prevent the disease.

could be the minor blip in history

Should be easy: you're vastly overstating the importance of the military entanglement itself, and pretending that it was the sole reason for great things that would've happened anyway.



Good grief ... I'm starting to think that you guys think the minor military entanglement with Spain actually was a significant event in American history! As if that obscure detail was the singular defining moment of American greatness.

Talk about GroupTroll.

Talk about stupid with a big S. Are you being willfully ignorant or are you really just that stupid?

(05-15-2017 05:35 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-15-2017 05:27 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  we wouldn't have to deal with complete imbeciles on the message board

Oh boo hoo -- that's what you're crying like a school girl about? Your precious message board?

There is an ignore feature, use it.

What's even sadder than you hanging out here looking like a complete idiot is that you get to roam free acting the same way in public.

(05-16-2017 09:37 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(05-15-2017 05:35 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(05-15-2017 05:27 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  we wouldn't have to deal with complete imbeciles on the message board

Oh boo hoo -- that's what you're crying like a school girl about? Your precious message board?

There is an ignore feature, use it.

What's even sadder than you hanging out here looking like a complete idiot is that you get to roam free acting the same way in public.

And remember when you use it Mpls will run around screaming "I am victorious"...

Apparently to Xer the real prize is an echo chamber.