• tilcica@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    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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      8 months ago

      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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      8 months ago

      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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      8 months ago

      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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      8 months ago

      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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      8 months ago

      When you view your life as inherently more than another, it ironically puts you below the bar a bit.

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      8 months ago

      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.