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Fire Memes for Traitor Haters

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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.

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[โ€“] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Edit: also, this quote was pre-war, not post-war. He said it in 1858.

My point in pointing out postwar relations was not to assert that 1858 was postwar, but to present a time when slavery was very much abolished and public opinion was very much against slavery, yet a racist hierarchy still existed - ie presenting what Lincoln said in '58 as wholly compatible with an anti-slavery stance, even if not one we would find laudable by modern standards.

[โ€“] elbucho@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago