tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post6091698767819152638..comments2024-03-29T06:51:03.388+00:00Comments on TPQ: Context Is EverythingAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-76449529281522952762015-06-28T19:13:30.621+01:002015-06-28T19:13:30.621+01:00Agreed. Otherwise decent people fight, and die, fo...Agreed. Otherwise decent people fight, and die, for all kinds of horrible, unjust, immoral reasons. Honoring their memory does not equal honoring the cause for which they ultimately died. PFTrumborehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13549998962147570012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-55070528645540494012015-06-28T18:59:24.324+01:002015-06-28T18:59:24.324+01:00Pete,
it is much more difficult that the comment ...Pete,<br /><br />it is much more difficult that the comment by Sandy would appear to suggest. I think it is the type of issue that is shaped by how strongly we feel rather than how logically we feel. Because a person dies for something does not make the cause for which they die right. But it seems wrong in my view to prohibit an expression of the reasons a person died. And if we were to ban the AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-22644516370230104412015-06-28T18:47:37.720+01:002015-06-28T18:47:37.720+01:00Anthony, I don't know that I'd have a prob...Anthony, I don't know that I'd have a problem with wartime German flags at a military cemetery, including, I suppose, a swastika. I've never been to see any of the WWII cemeteries, so I can't say what flies there. I'd be curious to know.<br /><br />Sandy, that's what I mean by context. In the setting you describe a Confederate flag could only be there to insult and incite.PFTrumborehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13549998962147570012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-84699547507797296202015-06-27T19:25:49.270+01:002015-06-27T19:25:49.270+01:00PS I wonder which has the more direct incitement t...PS I wonder which has the more direct incitement to murder, the flag or the Koran?DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-25934384927408856102015-06-26T18:59:11.651+01:002015-06-26T18:59:11.651+01:00Peter, you will know better than anyone living in ...Peter, you will know better than anyone living in the States, you cannot win this one by appealing to logic, because morons will reduce this to one of emotion, so its one you can never win. There is an example of a moronic logic just above, whose counter to you would only prove that black crowds can lynch just a viciously as white ones.Maybe that's his idea of equality?DaithiDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03154264514142897745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-57825126262616260582015-06-26T17:18:30.037+01:002015-06-26T17:18:30.037+01:00I have a modest proposal - bring your confederate ...I have a modest proposal - bring your confederate flag to a Black Lives Matter protest and explain how "complicated" it all is.<br /><br />Sandy Boyer<br />Sandy Boyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17690443284622638123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-68857231763953910722015-06-26T08:45:04.148+01:002015-06-26T08:45:04.148+01:00Pete,
context is everything including alibi.
I l...Pete,<br /><br />context is everything including alibi.<br /><br />I like the way you bring the nuance to the fore. <br /><br />Yet, a residue from our exchange in the previous article remains: it leaves me wondering how we might respond to the swastika over the graves of those dead German troops, who were not war criminals, but simply died in battle answering the call of the state/nation. The AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.com