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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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No bigotry. The Union, or at least the part of the Union WE support, fought AGAINST that shite. We are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, and in general anti-bigot here, even if not all the lads in Union blue uniforms were.
No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
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Also, maybe white identity is kind of fucked as a concept to begin with? (media.piefed.social)

submitted 6 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/shermanposting@piefed.social

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago

Western European culture/identity is more fitting,

But that's also not it, since 'whiteness' includes a milieu far outside of Western Europe, including people without Western European ancestry. Conversely, those who are steeped in Western European culture and identity are not always recognized as white.

influenced as well by post-WW2 Germany (Operation Paperclip and all of that).

... no, not at all. White identity was not only long-established by then, but the post-WW2 consensus, cultivated in part by the backlash against Nazism, was the beginning of the dismantling of white identity hegemony, a process that laboriously continues to this day.