Originally Posted By: Darwin1138
Originally Posted By: BubbaFL
Great at everything... except instilling their own
values, morals, and work ethic in their children.
Hence the messed up state of affairs in this country today.
So, in short, you think that if we had just kept their
racism, homophobia, fundamentalism and misogyny, this will be a better place??????
Aren't we painting with a VERY broad brush! Doesn't that make you the same as "them?" Just a different color on your palette? Love em or hate em, they embroiled the American can do spirit and did not falter against an incredible war machine.
My grandfather was one of those, as you put it, racist, homophobic, etc... He did his time in Greenland during WWII. I grew up on a farm, he had me working good and hard at early age. When I was younger I repeated the N word. He took me to a neighboring farm, and showed me a black man working his [censored] off as a farm hand. He said that is no N. Then he took me to his brothers house (he came from a family of 6 sisters and 5 brothers). He was a worthless drunk (ended up drowning while swimming drunk). He said, this is a N!!! Then he explained N didn't represent a color, it represented worthlessness. It was a very simple lesson from a man who grew up during the depression, getting kicked under the table by his father who couldn't afford to feed his kids.
Some of these old timers had such a simplistic way to teach a lesson and have it stick with you. Before you cast them aside as evil, as you do in your post, just remember times are different. Compare and contrast JFK policies and he would be a far right winger in 2014; surely not emboldening current current democratic ideology. Heck, compare his policy to a contemporary republican.....