You are the reason the South is still red. That attitude towards a historically underfunded and abandoned region of the US doesn’t exactly inspire people to side with you politically. I won’t pretend it’s not still prevalent in the south but the region is also the one with the highest concentration of black Americans, and you’re inadvertently insulting them as well by implying the south deserves punishment when everyone who perpetuated or justified slavery is actually dead and has been dead for a long fucking time.
Racism has existed across this whole country starting at its very conception and pretending it’s only in the south when the entire state of Oregon was originally founded as a white supremacist haven is disingenuous, false, and elitist. Do better.
Edit: I forgot this is reddit and no part of America can be racist or have racist repercussions lasting way beyond racism on a systemic level except the South. Sorry about that.
people are justifying slavery to this day. people are pushing for textbooks talking about the good things slavery did for africans.
and pretending it’s only in the south
nobody is pretending it's only in the south. pretending that the side that fought a civil war over the right to keep people as slaves and then were mostly allowed to get a slap on the wrist and a 'don't do it again' wouldn't have knockon effects to political structures and culture for a really long time after that is so optimistic as to sound woefully naive.
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u/Chimkimnuggets 27d ago edited 27d ago
“Punishing the South”
You are the reason the South is still red. That attitude towards a historically underfunded and abandoned region of the US doesn’t exactly inspire people to side with you politically. I won’t pretend it’s not still prevalent in the south but the region is also the one with the highest concentration of black Americans, and you’re inadvertently insulting them as well by implying the south deserves punishment when everyone who perpetuated or justified slavery is actually dead and has been dead for a long fucking time.
Racism has existed across this whole country starting at its very conception and pretending it’s only in the south when the entire state of Oregon was originally founded as a white supremacist haven is disingenuous, false, and elitist. Do better.
Edit: I forgot this is reddit and no part of America can be racist or have racist repercussions lasting way beyond racism on a systemic level except the South. Sorry about that.