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The borderline literal deification of slave owning planters is the silliest part of the American Civil Religion (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by LaGG_3@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Hey look, it's George Washington but with the body of fucking Zeus

trump-enlightened isn't even that absurd tbh

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[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Same dude who made this mess also made this CW: Extremely Racist thing

[-] Starlet@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

ground into dust, and scattered to the four winds, that no more remembrance may be perpetuated of our barbaric past

this goes kinda hard

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Oh look it's White Man's Burden: The Statue

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

In 1976, a crane accidentally dropped The Rescue while moving it to a new Smithsonian storage area in Maryland, thus reducing it to several fragments.

accidentally janet-wink

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

fucked up content aside the white savior appears to be wearing a burger as a hat? what the fuck did those even exist yet

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I like the dog in the corner doing pogface ferret

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I like how the dog is one of the last parts left lol

[-] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

CW: racism

spoiler

Greenough wrote that The Rescue was meant to "commemorate the dangers & difficulty of peopling our continent, and which shall also serve as a memorial of the Indian race", but also "to convey the idea of the triumph of the whites over the savage tribes"

American whites on the North American frontier in the 19th century were every bit as evil and deranged and Israeli settlers in the West Bank are today.