Strom Thurmond Dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[amadeus]

RIP.

What's interesting about this thread is how quick everyone is to label Strom Thurmond a racist when a living and serving senator (Robert Byrd) was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and tried to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act. I wonder how many of the lefties here will be rejoycing when he croaks.

 

[eyrei]

Originally posted by HuckFinn




.. because he never got elected President, thank God or your favourite supernatural entity.

You must be in direct communion with god, because I don't see how else you would have the ability to view different timelines.

So, you are assuming that because Strom Thurmond didn't like black people, that he would exterminate them if given the chance? Do you realize how absurd that is? I certainly hope you don't exaggerate everyone else's ambitions with whom you disagree and turn them into mass murderer's in your opinion.

My god! I just realized that you must be the devil spreading lies to discourage others from believing as I do! It isn't possible that you are just someone who disagrees...

 

[HuckFinn]

I missed this the first time around...

At any rate, the point of this site is not to act as a venue for you to spew your hatred of anyone who doesn't believe as you do.

"Hatred"... hmm. I wonder where your tolerance of those who don't tolerate all of a sudden went.

It has become more and more my belief that there is no reason to be overtly politically correct with those who apparently support views that oppress other human beings. If someone is a racist, I will call him a racist, and won't be ashamed or apologetic over it.

That destroys any chance at reasonable dialogue, and will not be tolerated.

I invite you to have a reasonable dialogue with me.

Since it didn't seem to sink in last time I said it: Your opinions are not fact!

It might be helpful if they were at least considered as fact, without being attacked as "hatred" outright...

 

[HuckFinn]

Originally posted by eyrei
You must be in direct communion with god, because I don't see how else you would have the ability to view different timelines.

Is there any reason to believe that Strom Thurmond would have changed his colors all of a sudden after being elected President of the USA? It's merely a very reasonable assumption that he would have worked for segregationist policies...

So, you are assuming that because Strom Thurmond didn't like black people, that he would exterminate them if given the chance?

Probably not, but he would have worked to make them live their lives as second class citizens. I can't understand why anyone would have any understanding for such policies. The point here is not whether Strom Thurmond would have been the tyrant on the level of Hitler, the point is whether he deserves any sympathy from me after his death. The answer is no, simply because on the basis of what he stood for.

My god! I just realized that you must be the devil spreading lies to discourage others from believing as I do! It isn't possible that you are just someone who disagrees...

Actually I was thinking that this is the most scary aspect of American thinking these days... anyone who disagrees with the American gospel of their "benign" unilateralist domination and globalized (Americanized) economy is the Devil spreading its lies... but that's stuff for another thread.

 

[JollyRoger]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
RIP.

What's interesting about this thread is how quick everyone is to label Strom Thurmond a racist when a living and serving senator (Robert Byrd) was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and tried to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act. I wonder how many of the lefties here will be rejoycing when he croaks.

I'm no fan of Byrd. He strikes me as in the same class (or lack thereof) as Orrin Hatch - a self-important blowhard that misjudges the importance (or lack thereof) that the American people give him and of how history will regard him. As far as filibustering during the Civil Rights era, Thurmond set the record at 24 hours and 18 minutes straight. What's interesting is that you would find it interesting that some would be "quick" in "labeling" Thurmond a racist. It's the eulogy he's arguably earned over the past 100 years or so.

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by Stapel

Let us not forget that! But even here in Europe he is known, because of his racist views.

I think he got pass that. That was really a 1940s issue.

 

[CurtSibling]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
RIP.

What's interesting about this thread is how quick everyone is to label Strom Thurmond a racist when a living and serving senator (Robert Byrd) was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and tried to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act. I wonder how many of the lefties here will be rejoycing when he croaks.

Shame on you all, you've made Sharpie cry!
Now come on, everyone apologise!

*joke*

I'm sorry to say, Rm, my good fellow,
but I think those nasty 'whiners' were having a go at Byrd too, If I remember correctly.

They have a go at whatever is trendy.
You can't please everyone. So don't let it get to you!

 

[Plexus]

Well, I can't say that I'm happy about a US senator's passing, nor am I sad. I am indiffrent. He lived a long, full life.

 

[Drewcifer]

Originally posted by rmsharpe
RIP.

What's interesting about this thread is how quick everyone is to label Strom Thurmond a racist when a living and serving senator (Robert Byrd) was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and tried to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act. I wonder how many of the lefties here will be rejoycing when he croaks.

I have no respect for racists in any party. The cynicism and hypocricy of some Democratic leaders deserves the same rebuke as that among some Republican leaders. There is little that seperates some limosine liberals from some crackers other than style. But neither are representative. I look forward to the day when that era is buried in the same grave as those who built it.

 

[Panda]

Did he die from a shock after hearing the SC's ruling regarding Texas?

 

[eyrei]

Originally posted by HuckFinn


"Hatred"... hmm. I wonder where your tolerance of those who don't tolerate all of a sudden went.

At times, I may scream "tolerance from the rooftops," but there are some things I do not tolerate. One of them is people who exaggerate and sensationalize to make an argument about something they are woefully underqualified and too heavily biased to possibly contribute to a discussion about, where everyone doesn't already agree with them.

 

[Archer 007]

Just wanted to point out that another famous segerationist figure died this week, former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox.

 

[Theige]

Originally posted by metalhead
His segregationist, racist views softened considerably as he grew older, but like most of the old-schoolers left, on both sides of the aisle, he never fully let go of them.

I'm not sure that he will be missed, as he was completely out of touch by the time he retired, but he is a remarkable individual nonetheless, and I'm sure that many inside the beltway will feel some sort of personal loss at his passing.

That got all nice and mushy there at the end, very nice.

But no, i don't think anyone will care.

Except maybe members of the KKK.

 

[katka]

Seeing that I'm from South Carolina I feel I should say something. I don't know what it is yet though.

Anyway if he was still alive and ran again he would get reelected. Kinda sad really.

Oh and here in South Carolina you never ever hear anything bad about Thurmond.

And no I don't really agree with him or even like him.

 

[Archer 007]

Well, more other candiates wouldnt even oppose him. Thats how much of a sure thing he was.

 

[Stapel]

Originally posted by archer_007


I think he got pass that. That was really a 1940s issue.

Last saturday I read another article in "De Volkskrant", a slightly to the left dutch quality paper. It indeed said that mr. Thurmond changed his views on segregation in the 70s. He was one of the first to hire blacks into his office.
So I guess he made a change for the better which I really admire.

 

[Archer 007]

Yeah, of course, i dont think he was really any more racist then most people of his time. The whole presdental run proboly had just a much to do with his party hatred as with the actual issues.