• Optional@lemmy.world
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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.

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      Alabama’s gotten me so upset

      Tennessee made me lose my rest

      And everybody knows about Mississippi, goddamn

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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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      It was four fucking years and most of that was a war that left your major cities in flames. It’s crazy that I don’t consider high school my heritage but these fuckin nitwits can’t let go of 4 years like a 150 years ago.

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        I’ve met some people that very much consider their four years in high school to define them and to be their “heritage”. Many of them then try to vicariously live through their kids in often the very same high school.

        I have a feeling the Venn diagram overlaps quite a bit…

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    Why isn’t this considered treason? They fucking lost. Wtf isn’t any confederate symbolism illegal and punishable by prison time? I’d support this. Also same thing for nazi shit. Didn’t Germany make all nazi shit illegal?

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      Our leaders have a history of letting them live to stop the killing. They did the same thing after WWII. Thanks to nuclear bomb wet dreams, many of those nazi’s ended up in high positions within the govt., eventually.

      We won’t make the same mistake this time.

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        “We won’t make the same mistake this time” yet ya’ll keep doing it over and over again. Besides empty platitudes, what are you gunna do to stop it?

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    you can thank the daughters of confederacy for keeping it alive throughout the centuries.

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    Racist Traitor Heritage Month doesn’t have quite the same ring

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

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    A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union.

    In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.

    Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.

    https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_missec.asp

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    Does that mean these racists are going to be dropping the n bomb? Because that’s, And I cannot emphasize this enough, gross.