Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
RULES
No bigotry. The Union, or at least the part of the Union WE support, fought AGAINST that shite. We are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, and in general anti-bigot here, even if not all the lads in Union blue uniforms were.
No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
Follow all Lemmy.world rules
I’ve read the articles of secession of some of the confederate states to people parroting lost cause nonsense to me; it’s fun watching them completely fail to rebut it. Primary source material is handy.
I don't think anything makes it more clear than the VP of the Confederacy coming right out and saying it in the Cornerstone Speech.
Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error.
[...]
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Secession?
Yeah, thanks. I always screw that one up
Damn, bit too real these days.
I would like to laugh at this, but I can't. All I can do is thank my lucky stars I'm not in Florida.
I'm surprised they still make Doonesbury.
Why, because it's increasingly relevant?
No because it's been around forever and I'm surprised the author is still alive.
Berke is only 67