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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1455810
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1455810
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Confederate History is like Trump History, you are losers.
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I get it, so expelling black lawmakers was just celebrating Confederate history month…
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Continuing the pattern of losers with a large L…
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Speaking of the confederacy
For the record Haley was not brave and the move not bold at all. The Rebel Flag got underbussed so we would stop talking about racists and guns.
Haley needed to change the subject
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Never accuse TN of keeping it classy. Apparently looking racist is worth voting for to them.
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The performative bullshit and purity-signaling of these Reich-Wingers is really tiresome; better than them vainly attempting to actually govern perhaps but still, tiresome.
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I’m really tired of the white racist victimhood schtick.
If this really were like the other history months, it would end on the 30th and everyone would go back to treating the Confederacy like sh*t.
If this were legitimate shouldn’t everyone else expect the Confederates to shut up after a April?
Having established that this is BS, I’m assuming Fort Pillow is going to become a Union atrocity?
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Confederate History Month, the 2020 election’s “stop the steal” … seems some folks never get over being losers.
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Lincoln’s great mistake. He should have hung some traitors.
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Someone should tell John Roberts about this.
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There are several events in Confederate history that I celebrate:
April 7, 1862: U.S. Grant drives the f*ckers off the field at Shiloh, and begins the conquest of the South.
Sept 17, 1862: R.E. Lee fails at Antietam and is driven back to Virginia.
July 3, 1863: R.E. Lee fails again (what a loser) at Gettysburg and is driven back to Virginia.
Sept.3, 1864: Sherman drives J.B.Hood out of Atlanta. “Atlanta is ours, and fairly won.”
Dec. 21, 1864: Sherman reaches Savanah after burning a 60 mile wide swath across Georgia.
April 9, 1865: Loser R.E.Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomatix Courthouse.
Confederate History month? You mean Loser History month?
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The Tennessee proclamation, which includes eight introductory clauses celebrating “the cause of Southern liberty [except for, you know, those people],” says nothing of slavery at all. Rather, it declares that Confederates conducted “a four-year heroic struggle for states’ rights, individual freedom [again, except for the dark-skinned individuals], local government control, and a determined struggle for deeply held beliefs [struggle all you want and believe deeply that you’d rather not be slaves - doesn’t matter].”
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The next time southern state secedes, the president should look at it like a supervisor when one of their lowest performers leaves the job.
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“Quietly”?
Nothing quiet about it. It speaks loudly.
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Tennessee can’t see the Nathaniel Bedford Forrest for the treason.
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If the traitors had won, we wouldn’t exist. I can’t decide whether everyone who does exist instead, would be speaking Russian or German today.
The actual descendants of the actual traitors, strongly favor the Russians.
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This historical revisionism is getting really tired. The people that write this shit are like abusers who seem to remember their abuse completely differently from everyone else who witnessed it or suffered it at their hands. The rationalizing bullshit and psychotic level of denial are desperate and dangerous.
I used to have someone who worked for me that always referred to her South Carolina extended family as “long-suffering”. I thought it was just a peculiar term until I realized she was referring to what had been “stolen” from her family by the North. As someone who was raised in Calif and has lived in AZ since I was 18, I was not familiar with this Southern legend of lost wealth and grandeur. It is a powerful and seductive mythology that allows its believers to blame all of their faults and shortcomings on past injustice perpetrated on them. Never a whisper of what their “wealth” was based on.
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Can we go with Sore Loser’s Month?
Somehow, it has a nicer ring to it.
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