I haven’t written in awhile, mostly because I hoped like hell the world got SANER since I last took fingers to keys, but unfortunately, it hasn’t.

Some people seem to be on this kick to eliminate all monuments to the people who fought in the Confederacy of the American Civil War, as if doing so will make the entire event go away.

Frankly, that’s a dumb reason to take them down. If you want to argue they belong in museums and not conspicuous places of public honor because honoring people who fought to preserve slavery is in bad taste, fine, that’s reasonable, but trying to destroy those monuments because they offend people is just trying to erase history.

By that token, if we’re going to consider taking down monuments because they offend people, then I say we should be fair to the KKK and let them tear down statues to Martin Luther King, and if you want to tell me they don’t deserve to not have their feelings hurt, what gives people tearing down statues of people who fought in the Civil War anymore authority to have their feelings respected?

Besides, I thought we lived in country of law, not a country where some asshole can illegally destroy public property with a sledgehammer if he doesn’t like it one day with no fear of legal reprisal for vandalism.

Another thing I want to do is facepalm at the cowards who took down the Daily Stormer.

I HATE Nazism and consider it a noxious creed and the bullshit peddled by sites like the Daily Stormer is just that, bullshit.

But as I understand it, so long as they break no laws, they deserve to spew their hatred of Jews alongside the same people who advocate resisting fascism, maybe more so the former since they might have been obnoxious racist jackasses, but at least they weren’t calling for bashing people in the skull with bike locks to be celebrated as a blow to oppression instead of the vile and cowardly crime it actually was.

Spewing vile racism is not much of an improvement mind you, but if I had to choose the bigot who isn’t beating the shit out of people versus the anti-bigots who are brutalizing people they THINK are Nazis, I’d rather the parties who have committed no legal crimes to continue to enjoy their free speech.

Finally, I just want to quit being nice and call everyone who wants certain speech that is offensive yet not illegal silenced a coward for one simple reason.

If your ideas cannot stand public scrutiny without having to silence rival ideas first, your ideas must be pretty weak on their own and those who want their voices alone to be heard need to quit hogging the microphone, if only so I can judge for myself if you’ve got something worthy to say.

And if you don’t want me to have the freedom to do that, then fuck you, you could say something I’d agree with, but I still have no interest in hearing you out, because I want to exercise my free will like I’m allowed to do by both law and conscience, and if that offends people, I couldn’t care less.