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For clarification: this isn't new, from what I can tell in the article, they started the Robert E Lee holiday following the civil war, and MLK day came after.

Not that they shouldn't be absolutely clowned on for this.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So what's next? Is Trump going to celebrate Hitler on Veteran's Day?

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

He already does.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

If your local college has a Kappa Alpha chapter, it is basically a cult dedicated to worshipping Robert E Lee. He appeals to that “war between brothers” tragic story type of “Lost Cause” narrative, and is ridiculously popular among dominionist Christians.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Sherman left too much of the South intact

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

the USA did not try those who financed the civil war as they should have

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

The Radical Republicans tried to put Sherman in charge of Reconstruction. Too bad that didn't happen.

[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago

I can't wait to watch the speech.

"And along with freedom fighter, Martin Luther King, we would also like to honor the great general Lee, who fought hard to keep half of our population in servitude and went on to surrender valiantly. While he didn't win the war, he won our hearts."

[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I guess Robert E Lee losing was helpful, but I suspect they're just racists and not honoring him for being such a loser

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

He really was a loser.

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I thought Americans celebrate winners not losers.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago

Something about projection something something

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

The south lost the war but won the peace through protracted terrorism.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They don’t think the Civil War is over.

[–] TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

The South will rise again!

-these people

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

But he was white and hated black people. So that's kind of thrir team.

[–] animephantasm@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 19 hours ago

I am from Virginia where we used to celebrate Lee Jackson King Day (in that order too).

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 81 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It is crazy that the American south is still like this

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 8 points 18 hours ago

Should have Year Zero'd them in 1865. Hang every plantation owner and Confederate officer, shut down every bank that funded slave purchases, break up the plantations and distribute the land to the freed slaves. May Andrew Johnson burn in hell.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Tbf there's the South and there's Alabama and Mississippi South.

And Louisiana, sometimes. And Georgia, obviously. Florida.

Texas... Okay, it's the whole South.

But at least that cancer hasn't spread to the Midwestern states!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Ohio checking in.......why do we have confederate flags in northern Ohio? Hell the only thing seperating us from Canada is a god damn lake!!! How much more north can you get???

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

It's the same across all the Midwest - Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas... I don't even think the Dakotas were states during the Civil War, but there's the loser-traitor flag all over across the upper Midwest.

[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I went to Ohio to visit family as a teen in the 90s and it was normal. I went again as an adult and suddenly everyone I wasn't related to had a southern accent and was very....banjo duel....

WTF happened to you Ohio?!

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[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And Arkansas. Been through that state and in some of those small towns, as much as they don’t want to be known that way, it’s true.

The KKK Embraces Diversity in Harrison, Arkansas

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Except of course for parts of Michigan. Missouri. Ohio. Iowa. Rural Illinois and Minnesota...

Fuck, how's the northeast doing?

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago

Maryland checking in from east central (mideast just did not sound right).

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Recently drove through Mississsippi and Alabama ( off I-20). Seems like they have more important thinks to worry about.

[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago

It's cheaper to incite racism than to deliver government services

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The roads are murder there

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago

More cracks then a plumbers' convention.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 points 20 hours ago
[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 129 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Appeasement was a huge mistake. These dipshits all running around my town like LARPers with their damn confederate flags and shit.

[–] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 76 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The Nintendo switch has been out longer than the confederacy lasted

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 35 points 1 day ago

There's so many things, but I think the best one has always been Obama being President much longer than the Confederacy.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Pauly Shore has made more movies that released in theaters than there were years of the ~~confederacy~~ dipshit parade

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 97 points 1 day ago (12 children)

If that's not the most racist thing I've heard in a while...

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[–] nick@midwest.social 38 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Two dogshit states that should have been razed and had the earth salted.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oddly enough, years ago I had an eye doctor named Robert E. Lee, and he was a black guy. Seemed like a really nice fella.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There are two states celebrating that eye doctor this Monday, he must have been super nice.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

It was Lee who opposed Confederate memorials. I'll bet the orange traitor is toasting the fucking Confederacy right now.

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