• NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    They aren’t even statues.

    They are participation trophies paid for butthurt racists 60-90 years after the war.

    Fuck the daughters of the confederacy.

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      Yeah, it’s telling that most of these were put up after all the local veterans of the Civil War died. You can pin a LOT more ideology to a dead body successfully.

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      Fuck the daughters of the confederacy.

      I knew I’d heard of them at some point but never bothered to find out who they were. Here’s a snippet from a PBS describing them:

      "This organization, originally comprising female relatives of Civil War soldiers who fought for The South, was instrumental in propagandizing the war and reframing its origins by coining phrases such as “The War of Northern aggression.”

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      participation trophies paid for butthurt racists

      Calling Confederate monuments “participation trophies” needs to become a thing.

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    3 months ago

    Those aren’t monuments, friends. Those are hastily and shoddily-built scarecrows to keep black people away.

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    If you call the other side a Yankee, shouldn’t you identify yourself as Dixie rather than “southerner”?

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    3 months ago

    The monuments should not be destroyed. They should be put into museums with a list of every atrocious thing the person depicted has done.

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      3 months ago

      They didn’t get free food. In the common case they had to grow and manage their own after their coerced work was completed.

      Imagine breaking your back for a 10-12 hour day under a boss with a whip and then having to do your own farming, slaughtering, milling and household work.

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    The biggest mistake Grant and the u.s made, was easing up after the war. They should have occupied the south and crushed every last Confederate there. Three South was allowed to recover after the war instead of being eliminated the way we did with the Nazis

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      In Grant’s defence, he absolutely crushed the KKK, and the issue of the South worming its way back into power was largely post-Grant’s presidency.