- Joined
- Jul 18, 2017
I'm not the mob.
And to answer your question, I'm more passive about the Confederate flag thanks to current events. I still think its image was rightfully tainted by that church shooting and the United the Right rally.
However, Confederate history is OBJECTIVELY still American history. And I cannot in good faith erase history because it's uncomfortable.
Unite the Right had very little to do with anything outside neo nazis trying to rebrand themselves. I could pound on for entire paragraphs about how confederate monuments and iconography were incorporated into US cultural practice as a way to heal the wounds of a war that killed 10% of the population of the United States and saw several of its largest cities at the time utterly destroyed by indiscriminate fire that was designed to kill civilians as much as soldiers.
Did you know BLM destroyed Richmonds Last Cannon? For over 150 years the city of Richmond kept the last Cannon of the civil war on Monument Avenue. It was a small thing. A memento left over from when the city was BURNED TO THE FUCKING GROUND in a civil war. A bunch children spray painted "BLM" on it, and then took sledge hammers to it. It is gone. A war memento representing a horrific cataclysm. Destroyed by the same people harassing this woman.
I dont care how she provoked this mob. In my opinion this mob and anyone who supports them are worse then the fascists they claim to fight because they looked into the abyss and became the monsters they claimed to fight.