Eventually, an artist will be chosen to transform the bronze bars into a public art installation

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      408 months ago

      There’s no way they’d spend the next 150+ years trying to dismantle the government who beat them, from the inside right? Right…?

      • @starman2112
        link
        English
        128 months ago

        Yeah that’s totally what he meant, it’s not like any basic interpretation skills at all would give you the understanding that he didn’t literally mean the entire south, but rather just Confederate soldiers and their leaders

        Nah he meant the whole thing. Trees, too

        • TigrisMorte
          link
          fedilink
          -28 months ago

          All is a word with meaning. Should they mean to state the People they wish wrongfully imprisoned they could have done so. Instead they used all as a weasel word to get out of culpability for their monstrous suggestion.

          • @starman2112
            link
            English
            48 months ago

            Yup, like I said, they meant all of it. The trees, the rocks, the rivers. Free people, slaves, occupying Union soldiers. The air too.

            Oooorrr it’s possible to use ✨reading comprehension✨ to understand what a person means, when the exact literal dictionary definitions of the words they used present a completely unreasonable statement. For example, it’s unreasonable to assume that my statement above actually reflects my belief, so you can assume that I’m not using the words literally.

            It seems to me like you believe that imprisoning all of the Confederate soldiers is a monstrous idea. Why do you oppose it? They fought against and killed numerous innocent people, for their right to deprive others of their rights. It’s not monstrous to say that virtually every Confederate soldier who fought in the war of their own volition deserves prison.

            Of course there is nuance. Turncoats and those forced into it don’t deserve to be punished. But carving out every single exemption when you refer to “all” of something would be tedious, especially when 99.9% of people reading understand you don’t mean to imprison the slaves.

            • TigrisMorte
              link
              fedilink
              -18 months ago

              The literal meaning would be to wall off the South as a Prison. Which would be precisely what I requested clarification upon. That the inane demand demonizing innocent People fits your desires does not make it any less vile.

        • TigrisMorte
          link
          fedilink
          -48 months ago

          I’ve yet to meet a 12 year old that didn’t know the definition of all, but few would understand that it was simply a cop out for the person to avoid stating whom they wish harm upon so as to hide from the consequences of their vile desire.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            48 months ago

            What the fuck wild accusations are you making now? I said “Appeasement was a mistake”. Who were we appeasing? ALL was referring to the people encompassed in the appeasement. You’re a psycho if you think anyone suggested otherwise.

            • TigrisMorte
              link
              fedilink
              -28 months ago

              The wild accusation in question being the definition of the word “all”, I doubt your opinion on the issue is supported.