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Comments on: The words “galactically stupid” come to mind…. https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168 Bringing obscurity into focus Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:39:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.22 By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168&cpage=1#comment-45787 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:11:14 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168#comment-45787 Mr. Leigh,

That poster was blocked because she refused to obey the rules. It had nothing to do with censorship.

I have exactly three rules for commenting on this blog:

1. No made-up names and no anonymous comments.

2. Be respectful and polite.

3. I don’t permit people–and especially people I don’t know–to insult me on my own website that I pay for.

This particular individual–whom I do not know–gleefully violated two of the three rules and told me that she would continue to disregard the rules. Further, she said that I should feel free to ban her. Having read enough of her posts on other forums, I knew that she would, indeed, continue to disregard the rules. That’s why her comment was deleted and why she was banned.

And, while I respect your view, this is not a democracy. It’s a benevolent dictatorship. I am the benevolent despot. And, because I pay for this site, I get to make the rules. There are only three rules, and they are simple enough. My decisions regarding who and what violates the rules are final, not subject to discussion, and there certainly is no right of appeal. If you don’t like that, I regret that, but it is most assuredly not going to change just because you don’t like it.

Eric

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By: Phil Leigh https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168&cpage=1#comment-45786 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:15:23 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168#comment-45786 1. It seems to me that the Museum of the Confederacy should fly the Confederate flag. It also seems appropriate that anyone wishing to protest the Museum’s failure to fly it, should have that right. The fly over seems an innocuous, but publicly noticeable way to exhibit such a protest. If it is inappropriate, then what ways *are* appropriate? Surely nobody around here is saying that those objecting to the Museum’s decision have no right to object in a public arena?

2. While I only “found” this website today (June 10, 2012) I was surprised to see that one commenter was blocked. Certainly the website owner has the right to do so, but it is important to acknowledge that such blocking is nothing less than censorship. From what I can see among the uniformity of opinion by commenters around here, my reflex reaction is that there is little tolerance for diversity of opinion, whereas I believe that censorship should only be used in extreme situations.

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By: Betty Giragosian https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168&cpage=1#comment-45761 Wed, 30 May 2012 13:08:11 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168#comment-45761 I have enjoyed reading your site immensely. The comments are a delight

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By: G. E. Colpitts https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168&cpage=1#comment-45699 Mon, 07 May 2012 20:49:19 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168#comment-45699 Gee, I always love it when people call the pointing out of historical facts “interpretation.”

I also love this (with apologies to Eric):

It’s not for you to decide who *I* should and should not confront, in what venue, on what subjects, at what time. It’s not for you to decide *any*thing for me, capisce?

How remarkable it is that Ms. Chastain can assert the very freedom that US Senator James Hammond of SC, in his speech of 1858, denied black men and women on the basis of their race, their “menial and inferior status,” and on the basis that they could not choose for themselves what was best for themselves due to both circumstances. In the same speech, he claimed that slaves were “hired” for life and therefore had better lives than the working poor in the North. Hired? They were bred, bought and sold as chattel property. They had no choice in the matter. They had none of the rights northern working men had: to be educated, to better themselves and their children, to travel, to live and work when and where one liked, to choose one’s associates, to marry as one chose, to live as one pleased, and most importantly, to exercise one’s franchise.

For so many of us, the Confederate flag, as much as it represents a phase in US history, also represents the insidious nature of Hammond’s viewpoint, a viewpoint common to any oppressive regime past or present in this world: “I know what is best for you and I will make the choices for you.” Those “choices” are typically made in the interest of the oppressor.

Frederick Douglass, anyone?

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By: Richard Thomas https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168&cpage=1#comment-45685 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:16:07 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168#comment-45685 In my humble opinion, studying the modern neo-Confederacy — in both its cultural and its political aspects — is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the Civil War. We have running around with us modern examples of the kind of people who are just like Rhett, Yancey, Wigfall, Cobb, Brown, Harris and the rest of those guys, as well as the people who blindly supported them and the people who trumpeted their propaganda.

Seriously… do you really want to know why the Confederate government was entirely dysfunctional except for Jefferson Davis? Just go look at the modern neo-Confederacy. Want to know how anyone could believe secession was a good, necessary idea for poor dirt farmers who didn’t own even a single slave? Go look at the modern neo-Confederacy. Etc, etc, etc.

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By: Andy Hall https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168&cpage=1#comment-45679 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:48:30 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168#comment-45679 Chris, my experience has been much the same. I spoke recently to an area SCV group, and they couldn’t have been a nicer or more engaged audience. Between setting up, their business meeting, my talk and packing up again, I must have been with them for three hours or more, and there wasn’t a single whinge about “cultural genocide,” or “political correctness,” or what an awful person Waite Rawls must be.

The fact is that the Flaggers, the strifent leadership of the SCV, and the online cadre of Confederate heritage supporters are a small group that is not really representative of the rank-and-file membership as a whole. They’re loud, but increasingly shrill, and are mostly playing to each other as an audience, looking to establish their unreconstructed bonafides to each other, rather than making a sincere effort to reach out to the general public. It’s a closed loop they’re operating in, and every stunt like that isolates them a little farther outside the mainstream of public discussion.

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By: Chris https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168&cpage=1#comment-45676 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:52:05 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168#comment-45676 I recently spoke to a group called “Descendants of Confederate Veterans of _____ County.” They broke off from the local SCV group because of its growing political nature – I guess the heritage movement you mention. I have lived here in NC for all my adult life but my ancestors were Union soldiers, for which I made full disclosure. I was cordially received. We pledged allegiance to the flag (US) at the beginning and closed with singing Dixie. My topic was a review of “This Republic of Suffering.” My point? There are serious students of the Civil War in some of these groups.

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By: The General https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168&cpage=1#comment-45673 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:03:16 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168#comment-45673 Very well, Ms. Chastain. Your wish is my command. Your IP address has been banned. Good riddance to you.

The beauty of this website is that I pay for it. That means that I get the privilege of making the rules. There aren’t many rules, but I expect their adherence. This is not a democracy. I am the sole arbiter of those rules, and there is no right of appeal.

We have only a few rules here:

1. Be cordial at all times.

2. No anonymous comments, and no comments left under stupid made-up names.

3. No insulting me on my own web site.

That’s it. Those are the rules. Ms. Chastain violated two of the three, so I accepted her invitation to ban her IP address. She’s history. We won’t see her here again. And good riddance, I might add….

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By: Dennis https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168&cpage=1#comment-45672 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:24:13 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168#comment-45672 My previous comment was incorrect. My apologies for misreading.

Dennis

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By: Dennis https://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168&cpage=1#comment-45671 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:22:18 +0000 http://civilwarcavalry.com/?p=3168#comment-45671 I went back and reread the comments. No jibes were directed at the MOC as you state. Nice try.

Dennis

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