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Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 06:00 PM Aug 2017

There is no celebrating treasonous Americans who immorally held human beings as slaves!

To the Alt Right, Southern "Good Old Boys", I say:

Fuck you and your heritage!

You lost the war and your antebellum society was a shameful era of American history. We don't celebrate losers! If you can't handle it, go live somewhere else!

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There is no celebrating treasonous Americans who immorally held human beings as slaves! (Original Post) Chasstev365 Aug 2017 OP
He equated Washington MFM008 Aug 2017 #1
He doesn't understand anything from history or American government! Chasstev365 Aug 2017 #2
exactly MFM008 Aug 2017 #4
I agree.... Adrahil Aug 2017 #3
best explanation MFM008 Aug 2017 #5

MFM008

(19,804 posts)
1. He equated Washington
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 06:06 PM
Aug 2017

And Jefferson who WERE slave owners to civil war traitors like Stonewall Jackson . I do not agree with that comparison.

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
3. I agree....
Tue Aug 15, 2017, 06:09 PM
Aug 2017

I don;t want to overwrite the flaw of Washington and Jefferson (and others like them), And while their ideals exceeded their accomplishments, they never-the-less put us on a path of aspirational progress.

Lee, Jackson, and their ilk were doing the opposite. They were attempting to preserve a system of privilege and oppression.

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