Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 31-year-old tradition that began in 1993. Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Miss., the museum and historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, announced the proclamation in a Facebook post on Friday, April 12.
“Whereas, as we honor all who lost their lives in this war, it is important for all Americans to reflect upon our nation’s past, to gain insight from our mistakes and successes, and to come to a full understanding that the lessons learned yesterday and today will carry us through tomorrow if we carefully and earnestly strive to understand and appreciate our heritage and our opportunities which lie before us,” says the governor’s proclamation, which is dated April 12. “Now, therefore, I, Tate Reeves, Governor of the State of Mississippi, hereby proclaim the month of April 2024 as Confederate Heritage Month in the State of Mississippi.”
Beauvoir is owned and operated by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that promotes “Lost Cause” ideology, a revisionist history that whitewashes the Confederacy’s racist past and downplays the role of slavery in the Civil War. Beauvoir annually receives $100,000 from the State of Mississippi for development and maintenance.
Free speech is important, but I can’t believe we tolerate this.
Sometimes I think Germany got it right - free speech most of the time, but they crack down hard on any Nazi shit.
I don’t trust our politicians not to chip away at it, though.
I entirely think Germany is right and I even think that works within the frame of the First Amendment because overt racism is an implicit (and even sometimes explicit) threat of violence, which is already not legal. It just needs justices uncorrupt enough to see it that way. Unfortunately, we do not have those justices right now.
Just remember that you are ok with them censoring speech when they turn pro trans speech illegal.
Jesus Christ, adults can draw lines and supporting a racist traitor regime is an easy bright line.
Don’t be a fucking child.
Do you trust your enemies with the power to censor you?
Because that will be used against you
Booooo. Scaaaaaaary wooooords. Now do nothing ever for any reason.
^this is you.
If my enemies need to be reminded what feeds the Tree of Liberty then that’s just fine.
Ok, you are entitled to your own opinion. 😊
You know they already do, right? There is speech that is not protected by 1A. As a society, we can clearly set those rules without doing a slippery slope (which for the record is a fallacy and not a poignant argument).
how does being pro trans imply hate?
It doesn’t in any way… to us.
Do you want to give that gun to someone else and trust them to do right?
“Pro trans speech” is in no way racist.
You’re 100% correct.
Now do you want to hand your enemies that tool and trust that they won’t misuse it?
How do you misuse a “tool” that specifically bans racist speech?
Why hasn’t this “tool” been misused in Germany?
You define criticism of Israel as antisemitic like they have in parts of Europe.
You know what, touché salesman.
I don’t trust America not to find a way to twist it and use it against other speech though.
Germany has a real strong “No more Nazis” thing going after what happened to it.
They’re using that to continue to support Israel killing Palestinian children though so I would say that the sentiment behind those laws is already being used in a bad way.
I did just have this thought though so feel free to tear into it.
I’m going to browse