• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    Chandra Manning, a professor of history at Georgetown University, said the naming of schools after Confederate soldiers really took off in the 1950s after the government mandated that whites-only segregated schools accept black pupils, as a way to make black students feel unwelcome.

    “It wasn’t a widespread trend until the Brown versus Board of Education decision in 1954, which mandated the desegregation of public schools,” she told the BBC. "And it was after that decision that the number and the frequency of schools named for Confederate generals quite dramatically and suddenly accelerated.

    If your excuse for keeping this shit and the statues and everything around is “culture”, then your fucking “culture” is nothing more than just being an asshole. That’s it.

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      feel unwelcome.

      This is the basis of systematic oppression in US.

      • Freedom of speech to treat minority like shit who will likely be lynched if they speak up in the past. Now when minorities do speak up, and can’t be silenced with “traditional means”, it’s woke.
      • Guns to deter minorities who can’t afford to. Now minorities can own guns, use police as cartels to kill them with impunity and be promoted.
      • Taxes for poor people, and cuts for the rich.
      • Two justice systems based on class
      • Separation of religion and government, but only for non-christian beliefs
      • Portrays itself as science leader, does not really give a fuck about climate change.
      • Portrays itself as defenders of democracy, has a well documented history of destroying democracies around the world.
      • Supports genocide when it’s favorable to them.

      They know how to oppress by seeming altruistic with false sense of progress, that only benefit itself, the racists and the rich.

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      If your excuse for keeping this shit and the statues and everything around is “culture”, then your fucking “culture” is nothing more than just being an asshole. That’s it.

      As evidence: Their current Messiah. Their humor (always at someone else’s expense). Their obsession with “liberal tears” and doing anything that makes “the left” upset. Their conquest against “woke” (as in: giving a shit about other peoples experience.) etc…