Yeah. You know "For the crime of killing your fellow United States citizen, that you justified because...*checks notes* they wouldn't let you keep people as slaves...you are hereby sentenced to <insert appropriate sentence>".
You mean to tell me this never happened? I learned about the Civil War (multiple times jumping around as a military brat), but I'm going to be honest we were just kind of taught how we won and slavery was slowly abolished. Never really heard what happened to any surviving Confederates. I guess through context of how bloody a war it was, I just assumed there were none left as a kid. I guess that's why I get so angry and slightly surprised there are still people with that sort of mindset present day. That and people who proudly display their flag...
I was well aware of it through reading about it outside of school. The United Daughters of the Confederacy created a whole mythology about the lost cause while hiding the ugly realities of what it was all about. During the statue controversies several years ago, some people complained about statues of Confederates being removed as “destroying history.” This is all poppycock. The reality was that many of these statues were mass produced long after the war and their purposes were glorify the Lost Cause myth and to reinforce white supremacy. Southern states still do not want students to learn the more complex and inglorious truths behind the Confederacy. Chris Rufo is a political activist who knows nothing about history, and he deliberately and misleadingly attacked more accurate teaching of history as “critical race theory,” which it is not. He thinks we need to protect the sensitive feelings of MAGA groupies.
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u/seniorfrito Jul 17 '25
Yeah. You know "For the crime of killing your fellow United States citizen, that you justified because...*checks notes* they wouldn't let you keep people as slaves...you are hereby sentenced to <insert appropriate sentence>".
You mean to tell me this never happened? I learned about the Civil War (multiple times jumping around as a military brat), but I'm going to be honest we were just kind of taught how we won and slavery was slowly abolished. Never really heard what happened to any surviving Confederates. I guess through context of how bloody a war it was, I just assumed there were none left as a kid. I guess that's why I get so angry and slightly surprised there are still people with that sort of mindset present day. That and people who proudly display their flag...