• @NegativeInf
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    711 month 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.

    • @Mirshe
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      131 month ago

      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.

      • @BoxerDevil
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        11 month ago

        That’s why God gave us more than one hole

    • @frunch
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      91 month ago

      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.”

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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      81 month ago

      participation trophies paid for butthurt racists

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

      • @NegativeInf
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        31 month ago

        Be the patriot you wish to see in the world.

  • @barsquid
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    301 month ago

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

    • @Cort
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      81 month ago

      Participation trophies

  • @moistclump
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    1 month ago

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    Monument to what. Monument to what mother fucker.

  • @Draghetta
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    221 month ago

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

  • @Blubber28
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    211 month 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.

  • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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    91 month ago

    Nothing worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his burning crosses in black people’s front yards don’t matter.

  • @BradleyUffner
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    91 month ago

    But they got free food and beatings, how bad could it really be?

    • @Drivebyhaiku
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      41 month 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.

      • @BradleyUffner
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        31 month ago

        Ahh, so just the free beatings then. Still a good deal!

  • @Nuke_the_whales
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    61 month ago

    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

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      41 month ago

      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.

  • @Hikermick
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    Sprinkles are for winners