No philosophical commentary, I just thought this was pretty cool:
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bookmark_borderNew home for Surry County, Virginia, Confederate Monument
Some slightly positive news out of Surry County, Virginia: the Confederate monument which was unjustly removed from its rightful location is being put up in a new home.
I recently saw this post from the Virginia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, showing a crane and several workers in the process of re-erecting a monument. “Surry County Monument is going back up!! Strong work Compatriots!,” the post read. I wondered about the context behind this monument, and although doing research on these kinds of topics is fraught with potential for excruciating pain to be triggered, I decided to do just that. I found out that, according to the Smithfield Times, the Surry County Confederate monument had existed outside the courthouse in Surry, Virginia for over 100 years. Unfortunately, after bullies and bigots in the Virginia state legislature wrongfully passed the disgraceful law removing legal protections for people who are different from the norm, thereby allowing the past five years of horrifying atrocities to be unleashed, the Surry County Board of Supervisors decided to join in on the campaign of state-sponsored bullying of people who are different, and wrongfully voted to remove the monument.
The one positive thing in this situation is that the county gave the monument to SCV Camp #9, who have now put it up at 384 Mount Ivy Lane, where it can be viewed by the public. A little piece of good news in what is overall a terrible situation.
bookmark_borderThe cause isn’t lost.
I concur with this post by Confederate Shop. The cause isn’t lost. It lives on in me and in these bronze generals.
bookmark_borderGood news on Confederate flag in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Some positive news: a mega Confederate flag erected by the Virginia Flaggers will remain flying proudly despite the county’s attempt to force its removal.
The High Bridge Memorial Battle Flag was erected in April 2022 by a private landowner in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Despite the landowner having a permit to do so, and despite the zoning board of appeals siding with the landowner, the county’s Board of Supervisors went to court to force the flag to be taken down. When the Circuit Court ruled against them, the county appealed to the Virginia Appellate Court. But yesterday, the Appellate Court threw out the appeal, allowing the flag to stay. You can read a more detailed version of events in the Virginia Flaggers’ Facebook post.
“It is perfectly clear that the real issue is not the size of the flag, but the message they perceive it to communicate,” the Flaggers point out. The message that the flag communicates: acceptance and inclusion of people who are different. The fact that people who are different from the norm, have a right to exist. That’s the message that the Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors – along with so many other people in our society – finds so objectionable. I am glad that, in this case at least, the intolerant bullies lost.
bookmark_borderWhite House X account officially expresses support for Second Amendment
A beautiful thing to see, and something that certainly wouldn’t have taken place under the Biden administration:
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bookmark_borderWise words from John Dolmayan, System of a Down drummer
Check out this post from Breitbart regarding John Dolmayan, drummer for the band System of a Down, and his support for President Trump.
“I voted for Donald Trump and I’m glad he won, because it brings a little sanity back,” Dolmayan said in an interview with an Australian Youtuber. “I don’t believe in the woke culture at all.”
He explained further:
“I don’t want people to starve to death, I want people to have homes. But I also believe in self-sacrifice, and hard work will get you to where you to where you want to be. And I don’t wanna subsidize somebody that is lazy or doesn’t wanna pursue something because I worked very hard to get to where I am. Whether I had been successful or not, I was going to work extremely hard on whatever I did. So, there’s a balance there.”
I 100% agree with these sentiments. I was the valedictorian of my high-school class and earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard. I secured a full-time, white-collar job after sending out over 100 applications, and lived a bare-bones lifestyle for years so that I could save up to buy a house. I’ve now owned my home for 13 years, maintain it, and financially support myself. I worked extremely hard for these achievements. Not only that, but I’ve accomplished all of this while having autism. And because I wasn’t diagnosed with autism until age 27, I accomplished all of this while receiving no supports, no services, and no accommodations. I accomplished all of this on my own.
So yeah, it sucks to see other people receive supports, services, and benefits that I never got to receive. Especially when these benefits are paid for with my hard-earned money. It sucks to see other people get things handed to them for free, when I had to struggle and sacrifice.
While helping people who are homeless and starving has obvious appeal, progressive economic policies really do present a significant fairness issue, as my life story illustrates. I appreciate John Dolmayan for calling attention to this.
bookmark_borderA cartoon that perfectly captures Democrats’ hypocrisy
bookmark_borderJeb Stuart Preservation Trust’s response to the despicable bill HB1699
The Jeb Stuart Preservation Trust, the organization that runs and maintains Jeb Stuart’s boyhood home, wrote an excellent letter to the Virginia governor regarding the despicable bill that bullies and bigots in the state legislature are attempting to pass.
Here is the most important passage from their letter:
HB1699… can be argued as viewpoint discrimination. In 1995 Virginia Supreme Court held viewpoint discrimination as an egregious free speech violation. In Rosenberger v. Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia (1995), the Supreme Court declared: ‘When the government targets not subject matter but particular views taken by speakers on a subject, the violation of the First Amendment is all the more blatant. Viewpoint discrimination is thus an egregious form of content discrimination. The government must abstain from regulating speech when the specific motivating ideology or the opinion or perspective of the speaker is the rationale for the restriction.’
(emphasis mine)
The concept of viewpoint discrimination really captures what is so deeply and fundamentally wrong with this disgraceful bill and the thought process behind it. Thank you, Jeb Stuart Preservation Trust, for putting this idea into words and providing legal citations to support it.
You can read the letter in its entirety here.
bookmark_borderNever forget…
bookmark_borderBarron Trump an “oddity on campus” – another example of the intolerance of the left
The third slide of this Instagram post really caught my attention. In it, Barron Trump is called an “oddity on campus” by fellow NYU students because “he goes to class, he goes home.”
Why the heck is it considered “odd” to go to class and then go home? Isn’t that exactly what a student is supposed to do? What is it, exactly, that Barron is expected to do in addition to attending his classes? What is required in order to qualify as “normal” in these people’s eyes?
This is a perfect example of the bigotry and intolerance of the progressive left. They proudly proclaim their support for queer people, trans people, single mothers, poor people, racial minorities, religious minorities… but find it “odd” that a student goes to class and then goes home. They criticize a young man for literally doing exactly what makes perfect sense for a person to do in his situation.
So in case this needs to be stated, which it shouldn’t, there is nothing odd about going to class and then home. It is exactly what makes sense for a student to do. I’m tired of this meanness, intolerance, and hypocrisy.