• Marthirial@lemmy.world
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    These hicks have contributed, influenced or affected so little of benefit, they need to give themselves medals when they came second on a two players race to feel they somehow matter.

    It’s so sad if it wasn’t for the fact the whole “heritage” is defending the right to own and abuse people.

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    Cool, Germany then should get a Wehrmacht “heritage” month as well. Ridiculous

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    It’s a myth that more Americans died in the Civil War than any other conflict. They inflate the numbers by counting slavers as Americans. I mean we didn’t put the names of the Vietnamese on that wall did we? (fucking thing would stretch to Richmond if we did)

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    Imagine celebrating something 150+ years later that lasted ~4 years, was a total failure and, at least as of right now, the biggest blemish on American History.

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      The confederacy are the most widely celebrated giant losers of all time, and it isn’t even close.

      There are more monuments commemorating their failure than there are commemorating most successes

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        You can thank Wilson for most of those. He also used the presidency to re-found the KKK. He also was one of the authors of the Lost Cause Southern Revisionist BS.

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    A member of the Rankin Greys, a Sons of Confederate Veterans camp based in Florence, Mississippi, announced the proclamation in on April 18.

    The SCV annually asks governors to issue the Confederate Heritage Month proclamations.

    The SCV is a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which promotes a revisionist version of history that whitewashes the Confederacy’s racist past and downplays the role of slavery in the Civil War. SCV owns and operates Beauvoir, the museum and historic home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis; the organization annually receives $100,000 from the State of Mississippi for development and maintenance.

    I hate Mississippi Nazis.