US Politics on Sidechat | I’m a descendant of confederates and slave owners. They were pieces of shit who either fought to maintain white supremacy or were tricked into thinking freedom for others was a danger to themselves. They should be remembered, but not honored.

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I’m a descendant of confederates and slave owners. They were pieces of shit who either fought to maintain white supremacy or were tricked into thinking freedom for others was a danger to themselves. They should be remembered, but not honored.

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Anonymous 1w

There’s nothing proud about having risked your life to keep others in chains. There’s nothing noble about taking up arms when you’re fighting to keep the world worse. The confederates should be remembered as a cautionary tale. The wealthy plantation owners, for how the rich will ground up lives in the name of convenience and profit. And the poor soldiers, for how the uneducated masses can be tricked and manipulated by the rich using fear and racism into shedding their own blood and guts.

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OP 1w

And we should remember the neo-confederates too. For how racists will attempt to rewrite history to make it seem that white supremacy wasn’t white supremacy, all while attempting to perpetuate racism in the modern day. The confederacy never truly died, because reconstruction was cut short. The plantations were re-instated and the poor were divided again by racial bigotry. We never removed that vile ideology from our nation, and it continues to drive politics today.