this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2024
594 points (98.7% liked)

Fire Memes for Traitor Haters

288 readers
333 users here now

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

  1. 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.

  2. No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.

  3. Follow all Lemmy.world rules

founded 5 months ago
MODERATORS
PugJesus@lemmy.world
594
You don't get to be a Confederate and a 'proud American' (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/shermanposting@lemmy.world
66 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it should also own the genocide it committed against the natives

Absolutely, which is why it's taught in schools nowadays.

and it should also own the slavery and disenfranchisement of black Americans that lasted centuries.

... what do you think the US Civil War was over, again?

[โ€“] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Are you implying slavery and disenfranchisement ended with the civil war?

The last tenet farmer was allowed to leave in the 1960s.

We still have more prisoners than any other country, mostly due to laws heuristically targeting black and poor people. Those prisoners can't vote, but for representation purposes, their population counts towards the local town/district (which includes those prisoner's guards). Weirdly similar to the way political representation for enslaved persons worked, minus the 3/5ths part.