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Racism Is Why Trump Is So Popular
(theintercept.com)
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and the fact the confederacy was allowed to “live ~~in~~ on” in memory as heritage, and allowed statues honouring traitors to the United States
If you allow confederate statues to honour enemies of the country, why are there no statues honouring the british red coats from the war of independence? Where are the statues honouring soviet spies executed for espionage?
Constructed largely after the cowards were all dead, in the civil rights era. And yet some people still insist that it's 'history' to leave them standing instead of a blatant attempt to cement the United States as a 'White Man's' polity.
Fuck them.
Let's make some 9/11 memorials to commemorate those brave hijackers too.
It's fucking absurd, and while I know HOW it got started, I don't know how it got started. You know what I mean? Like, I understand the conditions that led to the rise of Lost Causer nonsense, but I just can't wrap my fucking head around the idea that everyone just fucking normalized it. Like, even if you are a racist (as most 19th century Americans were to at least some degree), what the fuck kind of lunatic country commemorates the 'heroism' of literal traitors and secessionists who killed hundreds of thousands of our countrymen?
Sherman didn't burn enough.
Sherman should’ve done a victory lap juuuuust to make sure
40 acres and a mule would've gone a long way. Shame Andrew Johnson was a piece of shit.
Fun fact: There is a statue in honor of famous traitor Benedict Arnold... kinda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Monument
I mean there should at least be a statue commemorating when we future Canadians had most of DC burning, including the White House and Capitol.
:p
We'll have to make due with this, fellow Canuck.