I love how a bunch of Sons of Confederate Veterans are actually Sons of Guys Who Pretended To Be CSA Vets To Get a Benefits Check in 1930
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Replying to @SaddestRobots
there's a significant chance your white-pride-under-a-fig-leaf "heritage" is just a lie your great-grandpa told to get some food money
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Real valor is southern anti-CSA guerillas, anyway. Hillbillies who didn't want kids conscripted into a slavers' war. https://twitter.com/Robotcarsley/status/815697967688589312 …
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(Hillbillies who got tortured and lynched for it, btw. A slavery-loving culture is pathologically cruel.) http://yesweekly.com/the-triads-real-civil-war-heritage/ …
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I think it's important to note, with all the states' rights rhetoric, that slave states were generally unfree places
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They were first and foremost unfree places for the enslaved. But white folks had their rights abrogated in all kinds of ways too
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They didn't have free speech. Advocating abolition could get you sent to prison.
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They were extremely paranoid abt slave revolts. "Stirring up" slaves could get you ostracized, lynched
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The North got riled up by the Fugitive Slave Act, which effectively drafted northerners as enforcers, but that was Southern tradition
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Few people owned slaves, but white men were all expected to serve in slave patrols
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The good ol boy culture of earning manhood through shared milita service was mainly in service to enforcing slavery
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You fundamentally cannot run a society based on slavery without becoming a society of paranoia and violence
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Which is why the South mocked the North for being "soft", for men going around unarmed, for not violently responding to challenges to honor
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