For clarification: this isn’t new, from what I can tell in the article, they started the Robert E Lee holiday following the civil war, and MLK day came after.
Not that they shouldn’t be absolutely clowned on for this.
So what’s next? Is Trump going to celebrate Hitler on Veteran’s Day?
He already does.
If your local college has a Kappa Alpha chapter, it is basically a cult dedicated to worshipping Robert E Lee. He appeals to that “war between brothers” tragic story type of “Lost Cause” narrative, and is ridiculously popular among dominionist Christians.
I can’t wait to watch the speech.
“And along with freedom fighter, Martin Luther King, we would also like to honor the great general Lee, who fought hard to keep half of our population in servitude and went on to surrender valiantly. While he didn’t win the war, he won our hearts.”
I am from Virginia where we used to celebrate Lee Jackson King Day (in that order too).
I thought Americans celebrate winners not losers.
Something about projection something something
The south lost the war but won the peace through protracted terrorism.
They don’t think the Civil War is over.
The South will rise again!
-these people
But he was white and hated black people. So that’s kind of thrir team.
Recently drove through Mississsippi and Alabama ( off I-20). Seems like they have more important thinks to worry about.
The roads are murder there
More cracks then a plumbers’ convention.
It is crazy that the American south is still like this
Should have Year Zero’d them in 1865. Hang every plantation owner and Confederate officer, shut down every bank that funded slave purchases, break up the plantations and distribute the land to the freed slaves. May Andrew Johnson burn in hell.
Tbf there’s the South and there’s Alabama and Mississippi South.
And Louisiana, sometimes. And Georgia, obviously. Florida.
Texas… Okay, it’s the whole South.
But at least that cancer hasn’t spread to the Midwestern states!
And Arkansas. Been through that state and in some of those small towns, as much as they don’t want to be known that way, it’s true.
Ohio checking in…why do we have confederate flags in northern Ohio? Hell the only thing seperating us from Canada is a god damn lake!!! How much more north can you get???
I went to Ohio to visit family as a teen in the 90s and it was normal. I went again as an adult and suddenly everyone I wasn’t related to had a southern accent and was very…banjo duel…
WTF happened to you Ohio?!
Heroin.
Alaska?
Touche
How much more north can you get???
I seem to recall that you guys and Michigan had a “war” over that exact question…
Oh yeah…we lost. We got stuck with toledo…
And we got the beautiful, mineral-rich upper peninsula. Pretty good trade in the end!
Nova Scotia here, even we’ve got ‘em.
Except of course for parts of Michigan. Missouri. Ohio. Iowa. Rural Illinois and Minnesota…
Fuck, how’s the northeast doing?
Maryland checking in from east central (mideast just did not sound right).
Indiana. Don’t forget that South Bend is basically the home of the third wave of the Klan.
During the peak of the Second Klan in the 20’s, roughly 1/3 white people in Indiana were Klan members.
The only time I think about Indiana is memorial day weekend and I want to keep it that way.
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If that’s not the most racist thing I’ve heard in a while…
Just wait until you hear what trump just tweeted about the jews…
I mean, he didn’t, but you were already prepared to say to yourself “Oh god, what NOW???”
Mostly because him, and controversial shit are just on brand for him. Like I could say he reverse pardoned the central park 5. That’s where you force a conviction even if the crime isn’t true.
And some people would believe me. And a reverse pardon isn’t even a thing. And even if it was, he doesn’t take oath until tomorrow.
Some people could still believe me. That’s just how shitty of a person he’s historically been, and how often he’s been shitty, that you could make up any obviously false claims, and it would still seem plausible.
I like to think I’m not any more gullible than anyone else, but every time I’ve heard something horrible from the orange convict, it’s beyond preposterous and somehow even worse than I was dreading. Yes, I’m prepared to hear and believe even worse. Yes, I can no longer enjoy political comedy because reality is more ridiculous
Trump just ate a cat.
Bullshit, he’d never eat pussy
I knew he was Hatian! How has he hidden that do well
/ducks and runs
Actually that would have genuinely suprised me considering how much Trump shills for jews and Israel.
This feels like serious doublethink
I thought so too, but then reading the article actually made it a bit less racist than initial thoughts. They had been celebrating Lee in January a good 70 years before MLKJ got his day in January. Still racist, but I can see politicians being like “fuck it. We’re not having two holidays a week apart from each other”.
Also, wouldn’t it be just as upsetting to racists in support of Lee as it is to non racists in support of MLKJ?
Funny, I’d have thought that celebrating a failed insurrectionist leader who fought for slavery is racist, regardless of how long they’d been doing it.
Well sure it’s racist, but it’d be more racist if they created the day and put it there solely out of spite.
But if you’re going to get rid of the two holidays and only have one and celebrate it on MLK day, why not just call it MLK day instead of insisting on still celebrating Lee? Hell, it’s almost worse the more I think about it. If they had some random holiday that celebrated Lee and kept it around mostly just to get a day off you might have a point.
Are we caring what upsets racists?
Also, that doesn’t make it better.
Two dogshit states that should have been razed and had the earth salted.
US grant let Sherman roll!
Oddly enough, years ago I had an eye doctor named Robert E. Lee, and he was a black guy. Seemed like a really nice fella.
There are two states celebrating that eye doctor this Monday, he must have been super nice.
Someone edit the wiki or something.
This is the version I choose to believe.
We all see what we want to see. Thanks to Robert Lee!
It was Lee who opposed Confederate memorials. I’ll bet the orange traitor is toasting the fucking Confederacy right now.
Its is absolutely ridiculous, but not surprising.
