Republican Glenn Youngkin also vetoed bills related to maintaining access to contraception, saying they were ‘not ready’
Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin has vetoed two bills that would have stripped tax exemptions for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization that has opposed the removal of statues of southern state generals during the US civil war and other markers of the southern states’ attempt to secede from the Union in defense of slavery.
The Republican governor vetoed several measures, including those related to maintaining access to contraception, saying in a statement they were “not ready to become law”.
The rejected Confederacy-related bill would have removed tax exemptions for real estate and personal property owned by several Confederacy heritage groups, including United Daughters organisations the Confederate Memorial Literary Society and Stonewall Jackson Memorial.
It was about slavery y’know.
They try and make like it wasn’t, but.
It so was.
“It was about states’ rights!”
States’ rights to do what?
“…”
In reality, it was not even about states’ rights. The South was pissed that the North was not helping them catch fugitive slaves that went to free states. The CSA also did not allow their states to outlaw slavery.
Every time someone tells you it wasn’t about slavery, send them here:
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
Slavery is mentioned within a few sentences of every state’s declaration of secession.
I think a lot of people don’t realize that the characteristics of conservatives hasn’t changed.
The south wanted to keep slaves as a states issue. BUT wanted the north to catch those slaves and return them to the south, in complete contradiction of slavery being a states issue.
In other words, “The law only applies to you. It doesn’t apply to us.”
Abortion, LGBTQ rights, voting rights, literally any right the conservatives fight over is literally the same playbook.
Ah yes, the good old times when more than 50% of the American population had significantly less rights than the rest.
What a great utopia to strive for. I heard everything was better back then.
For those powerful few, it was better back then. And these fucks make their living by convincing bigots that they might one day be in that group of the powerful few, so they should support giving power to them. And it works because these same fucks have defunded education and given conspiracy lunacy a massive platform that offers dopamine for participation.