“I’m a real American patriot!” they cry, flying the flag of a polity whose only purpose was EXPLICITLY to refuse and attack the institutions of America, prevent Americans from exercising their rights, and whose only achievement of note was the murder of hundreds of thousands of Americans and the impoverishment of a whole third of the country in service to wealthy landed elites, many of whom emigrated to other countries afterwards anyway.
“its my heritage”
Thats interesting because my heritage is burning the flags of traitors >:3
What if you tell them your heritage is killing nazis? 🤔
There’s also the declarations of secession. They all mention slavery.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
For a superior race that dude looks like he can be knocked over by a stiff breeze
Jefferson Davis, “I have never heard of project 1865.”
Not racist? That’s the argument? Buddy, the comparatively progressive Union was racist as shit. They just wanted to abolish slavery.
One nuance that I think often gets lost is that outside of a very small percentage of cases, if your great great great grandfather fought for the confederate army that isnt a criticism on you or him. Theres every likelihood that he was just another illiterate idiot fed a bunch of rhetoric and told who to fight and be vilified, press ganged or killed if he didnt. Even if he volunteered, look at the lies and dripple being punched out about russia/ukraine and israel/palestine and they had a very narrow information flow. Its ok to have family on the wrong side of history, we cant know what kind of person they were or how they really felt in most cases.
Sometimes I feel like you guys are perpetually stuck in the late 2010s.
The confederacy hasn’t been a culture war focal point for years now. Conservatives capitulated to such an extreme extent on this issue that Mississippi changed their flags to remove references to the confederacy.
And yet I keep seeing them. Though I’m happy if you don’t.
Yeah, definitely just us having an extended bad trip.
