• tilcica@lemm.ee
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    tbf, fuck confederates but…they are still dead people.

    treat everyone with the same respect you want to be treated with

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      No. I have no respect for the traitors who fought for the right to enslave human beings. Fuck all Confederates and fuck anyone demanding we respect the legacy of those fucking slavers and sing Kumbaya with their modern day bigoted counterparts.

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      They literally had official government statements that black people were inferior by divine law. The image from op is one hundred times more respectful of others than the Confederates were.

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      Why do dead people suddenly command respect upon death? If you‘re a seditious bigot in life, you remain a seditious bigot in death and reap all that you‘ve sown.

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      If I fought and killed over the right to own and abuse another human being, I would hope people would show up to piss on my grave. This is more respect than they deserve.

      And don’t try to say they were a product of their time, either, because so was Cassius Clay and that man landed on the right side of history after being born to the richest slave owner in America. If he could buck that trend then so could all these other assholes.

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        No, they quite literally left the Union, which makes them not Americans. They viewed black people as property and were willing to go to war to maintain that status quo. Personally, I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.

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          Hey, that’s how you start wildfires, piss on them to save the trees out just rock wall them to make a safe fire pit.

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          The union said they weren’t allowed to leave and won, so technically they didn’t leave. That’s what makes civil wars difficult, you have to find a way to live with the losing side after.

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            The law says you’re not allowed to murder. So if you kill someone and are arrested for murder, did you technically not murder anyone?

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            Wrong. We should have eradicated them when we had the best chance. Imagine a world where we got rid of all those people. 🥰

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      Nope. Pee on Confederate graves… The few that they’ve managed to bury properly. They died doing a shitty thing for a shitty reason, and we’ve had to deal with the aftermath since the election of 1876 was brokered to end Reconstruction.

      They fucked everything up. So, yeah, no respect. Pee on them.