Aho Old Guy wrote:css75 wrote:I think there is a better way of handlings these other than by mob rule.
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Mob rule at Silent Sam? No, it was something far different
. . . What if the Greensboro Four had followed the rule of law and not sat down at that Woolworth’s lunch counter? How much longer would segregation have persisted without that brave act of civil disobedience? What if the crowds had not crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge and endured Bloody Sunday? How much slower would civil rights progress be without that insistence on equality?
What if protesters hadn’t boarded ships in the Boston Harbor and thrown chests of tea overboard? What if Susan B. Anthony had respected the rule of law and not voted illegally in the 1872 election?
Mob rule? Mob rule was what happened at Little Rock Central High School in 1957 when black students, even armed with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, were turned back by an angry and violent white mob.
Though their actions carry less significance than those landmark examples, the students who took down Silent Sam on Monday – a statue raised 50 years after the Civil War out of pure and publicly acknowledged racial hatred – are now part of America’s long history of civil disobedience...
Educational adminicrats dithered, politicians waffled at the NC Generous Assembly, and students at *The University of The People* took initiative. Good for them.
1) Comparing almost anyone to the Nazi's is such a logical fallacy that it makes moot any point you want to make
2)I would still consider those mob rules, especially the Boston Tea Party - a bunch of white guys dressed like Indians storming ships and destroying cargo in an act of protest. We only call the "bad" evens mob rule when they don't fit into the overall narrative of America, American Freedoms, etc....
This is about taking the "law" into your own hands. Progress is slow. But Progress will come.
Mob Rule - control of a political situation by those outside the conventional or lawful realm, typically involving violence and intimidation.
Oh...and if Silent Sam offended these people so much, perhaps they shouldn't have enrolled at UNC. Perhaps they should've taken a stand and gone somewhere else.
They are taking down all the confederate participation trophies. 
2 1/2 day delayed reaction.. 
