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💯 Never let it be lost on you that the United States of America hanged John Brown for rebelling against slavery built statues honoring Lee for rebelling to defend slavery.
June 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
💯 Never let it be lost on you that the United States of America hanged John Brown for rebelling against slavery built statues honoring Lee for rebelling to defend slavery.
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No, really, among the most vile racist traitors in America's history
And also, your regular reminder that Lee - in addition to being a racist traitor who lost at Gettysburg & was owned by the patriot Ely Parker at Appomattox - was a terrible human being: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/
The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
www.theatlantic.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
No, really, among the most vile racist traitors in America's history
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We should have started doing the elite accountability thing in 1865, & kept doing it & then we wouldn’t be here. We should have finished Reconstruction & become an actual Republic of laws & equal rights for everyone. We still could do that now. It’s long past time.
🧵 The racist traitor, Robert Edward Lee, who was totally owned by Ely Parker at Appomattox, should have spent the rest of his life in prison & was an utterly horrible human being. We would know this if we observed Union Day as a federal holiday & had finished Reconstruction like a serious country.
Since this place is new & today is the anniversary of Gettysburg, I'll re-up my periodic reminder that Union Day/April 9 should be our 2nd most important federal holiday, where we hold ceremonies at Appomattox NP & recall how Ely Parker absolutely owned the racist traitor Robert Edward Lee.
July 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
We should have started doing the elite accountability thing in 1865, & kept doing it & then we wouldn’t be here. We should have finished Reconstruction & become an actual Republic of laws & equal rights for everyone. We still could do that now. It’s long past time.
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Again, the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from this to Jan 6 to torture to Iraq 2003 to Iran-Contra to Watergate to 1865 - is because there are <never> any legal, personal, or political consequences for those things. We <totally fail> at elite accountability.
July 3, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Again, the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics - from this to Jan 6 to torture to Iraq 2003 to Iran-Contra to Watergate to 1865 - is because there are <never> any legal, personal, or political consequences for those things. We <totally fail> at elite accountability.