Comments by "" (@1987BillyBob) on "Dr. Phil CONFRONTED: You are a right-winger!" video.

How far are you willing to go here? Jefferson was a slave owner. Do we take down Mount Rushmore?
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Hitler conducted a genocide. Completely different
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You do know the founding fathers were traitors as well.
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He has had this show on Youtube for over 10 years. Many subscribers most likely does not even know they are subscribed here or even log on. Similar to hotmail accounts no one uses.
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Hitler created genocide, you can't compare to those of the south. Slavery was accepted at the time as the norm and the Civil War was way more than just slavery. There was a lot of comparison to the Revolutionary War. The statues represent southern pride.
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Parents are also having less kids. And a lot of the hours worked is by choice. We allowed women out of the kitchen and gave them the option to work.
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@parthenocarpySA most slaves did not know better which is why most still worked for their owner after they were freed. This is not to say slavery is right, it isn't. However, at that time it was the norm and a part of the culture. Things do change over time, so Phil has a point in you shouldn't ridicule people in the past like that. As recently as the 90s most people opposed gay marriage and Trump was the first president to enter the white house supporting gay marriage.
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@emm_arr well, they were not the ones who shut down schools.
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@emm_arr it is true. You guys shut down schools while claiming to support education. You guys shut down small businesses while claiming to be against big corporations.
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So we should take down Mount Rushmore? Also, not every slave owner were abuser. Case in point, after slavery became illegal most still worked for their owners.
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@lpk6372 you have to look at the culture at the time. Most did not view slavery as bad. They saw it as the norm. Easy to look back over century ago and have an opinion, but at that time people had a different mindset. There are things our generation do today that people will look back on years from now and consider it wrong or foolish. Heck, as recent as the 40s there was a strong hatred to the Japanese here in the US with cartoons being made mocking them. But with your mentality we should take down everything as everything will offend someone. That is not a route you want to take.
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@mito88 to start, just because Rushmore is not in an urban center it is OK to have a slave owner on there and two people who committed an insurrection? Also, safeguard the dignity of those who are affected? What? "In the US, how would a person, whose ancestors were slaves, feel having to work or study everyday in a building named after a slave owner?" You can dig through everyone's ancestors and find someone who did awful things. Also, the Civil War was much more than slavery. There was a lot of comparison to the Revolutionary War. Only difference is the south lost. If the south won we would have been taught much different things and many people like you will be saying the north were traitors. Just like if the colonists lost the Revolutionary War, the founding fathers would be labeled as traitors. There are schools named after FDR who incarcerated Japanese Americans. Should we change those names of schools? How do you think Japanese Americans feel about that? Your comparison to Lenin and Stalin is poor as those people committed mass deaths to their own people. After the slaves were free most still worked for their owner. The whole point of the statues is southern pride. The Civil War was much more than slavery. And after the war the south was in bad shape economically and people had to work to rebuild.
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@Werewolf0216 "Dr. John Gartner " A guy who, from what I saw, has almost no peer reviewed publications and no patients. And wrote books that are bias against the right and Trump is masking the fact that Biden is not senile? Man, what a shocker.
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That is what it was. Slavery was accepted and the norm at the time. It is easy to look back 100+ years ago and criticize people at that time, but in 100 years people are going to look back at things we did and ridicule us.
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@jordanparker657 accepted by most, that is why it lasted so long and why most slaves continue working for their owner after being freed. Even then the Civil War was way more than slavery. It is easy for you to look up 100+ years ago and criticize. In 100 years from now people are going to look back at us and criticize things we did. And I am not saying slavery is good. I am saying at that time it was accepted. Compare it to this, in the 90s the majority opposed gay marriage. That was the norm and accepted as well. And that was recent.
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That is simply not true. Slavery was the norm at that time. The Civil War was way beyond slavery and had a lot of similarities to the Revolutionary War. Difference was is that the south lost. If the south won we will all be seeing it in a different light were the north were consider the evil people. And in many ways mortality s relative. Consider this, you can look from the outside to the people of N Korea and feel they are being oppressed. Reality is that the people of N Korea do not know that as they know nothing else. With slavery most ended up working with their owners after they were freed.
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Mount Rushmore was created in the 1920s. It has Jefferson on it who was a slave owner. Should we take it down? Also, easy to look back 100+ years ago and criticize people's actions. Slavery was the norm at that time. And the Civil War was more than just slavery. There was a lot of similarities between that and the Revolutionary War.
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Also, after the slaves were freed most still worked for their owner. Contrary to popular belief not every slave owner was like Candyland.
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You are comparing people who are old to healthy kids dying in pools. Bad comparison.
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Even with Roe v Wade abortion rates were dropping.
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Slavery was accepted by the majority during that time. The concept that slaves were beaten constantly or treated poorly is mainly a myth. After slavery became illegal most still worked for their owners. Also, the concept of having those statues up is about southern pride, not to glorify slavery. Should we take down Mount Rushmore because Jefferson was a slave owner?
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Should we take down Mount Rushmore because Jefferson was a slave owner? The idea of the statutes is southern pride. The Civil War was much more than slavery. It had a lot of similarities to the Revolutionary War.
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Fun fact, after the slaves were freed most still worked for their owner. Most just did not know better. Compare it to the people of N Korea. As an outsider you probably look at those people and feel they are oppressed. However, they do not know they are oppressed as they know nothing else. Same with the slaves at that time.
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