• solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    the fact that greater than zero of these people exist shows this country has a long fucking way to go…

  • LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    He only raped some of the people involuntarily sold into slavery as property, they were just like family!

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Do they think slave owners didn’t feed their slaves?

    Do they think that feeding cattle counts as familial love?

  • Enkrod@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    As the grandson of a racist Nazi Wehrmacht soldier who likely committed war crimes in WWII… I keep being astonished how far some Americans go to not acknowledge the crimes of their ancestors.

    It’s okay, your ancestors can be horrible human beings without anyone thinking any less of you… in fact, you defending them, yeah, that’s why people think less of you. How is the flawlessness of your “heritage” so important to your ego? Do you have nothing else to be proud of?

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This is a serious-as-a-heart-attack mindset in much of the rural south in large part because it’s literally the history taught in schools and has been since the 19th century.

    Florida and Texas and Oklahoma are just the most outrageous in legislating that it be kept that way, but a lot of it just perpetuates itself because “it’s what we were always taught”.

    • StephniBefni@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I really wish, my mother says shit like this about her ancestors on her dad’s side. It’s always a real ‘what the hell are you talking about’ moment from the rest of us.