• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    2 hours ago

    Setting aside the massive amount of racism of the Confedercy, why are southerens so focused on the treasonous side of a civil war?

    It’s the racism isn’t it.

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    These hicks have contributed, influenced or affected so little of benefit, they need to give themselves medals when they came second on a two players race to feel they somehow matter.

    It’s so sad if it wasn’t for the fact the whole “heritage” is defending the right to own and abuse people.

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      It was four fucking years and most of that was a war that left your major cities in flames. It’s crazy that I don’t consider high school my heritage but these fuckin nitwits can’t let go of 4 years like a 150 years ago.

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    Cool, Germany then should get a Wehrmacht “heritage” month as well. Ridiculous

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    It’s a myth that more Americans died in the Civil War than any other conflict. They inflate the numbers by counting slavers as Americans. I mean we didn’t put the names of the Vietnamese on that wall did we? (fucking thing would stretch to Richmond if we did)

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        Doesn’t matter. If your constitution literally states your government belief is that one race has the right to own another and you willing fight for that, then you’re liable because you’re working to uphold that belief.

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      Alabama’s gotten me so upset

      Tennessee made me lose my rest

      And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn

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    Imagine celebrating something 150+ years later that lasted ~4 years, was a total failure and, at least as of right now, the biggest blemish on American History.

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      The confederacy are the most widely celebrated giant losers of all time, and it isn’t even close.

      There are more monuments commemorating their failure than there are commemorating most successes

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        You can thank Wilson for most of those. He also used the presidency to re-found the KKK. He also was one of the authors of the Lost Cause Southern Revisionist BS.

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        “That’s my battle flag”. And they all hang it up with a U.S. flag and somehow think they are patriotic. The Confederate flags only ever faught battles against the U.S. In fact I’m fairly certain with the rhetoric Donald Trump has used to say we should deport everyone who is anti America, it would mean anyone who flys a conferederate flag should be deported. Surely it won’t blow up in their faces in a couple years.