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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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It's projection.
Their heroes - yes, the racist, bigoted cunts who were on the wrong side of history - are being torn down, and instead of letting them go, like any sane person would, they're clinging into the feigned positive image.
They also understand that they should be ashamed of still putting these people on pedestals. Obviously they aren't but they get the implication that they should be.
Therefore they go and ignore all the positive white people like John Brown, and project that theoretical shame onto others as the last option, the last attempt to fight back.
Remember, right wingers, especially alt righties and fascists, will always fight based on emotions, feelings, and not based on logical arguments. They're emotionally attached to their heroes, unable to accept the fact that those heroes were actually horrible people, therefore the immediate tactic is to disarm, discredit, and eliminate those who dare say otherwise - because then you don't have to bring logical arguments to the table. There's no need to defend your beliefs against the accusations of being racist, bigoted, ass-backwards, if you can claim that all those accusations are fake news, made up, hoax, or that the person making those accusations is a horrible person and nobody should be listening to them.
The rightoid mindset really is THAT simple. The debate capability of a four year old, combined with ignorance and a fiery belief of being right.
Idk I think for a lot of people its also a LOT of disinformation going around. People I know have parrotted that the civil war wasn't about slavery. They believe that shit.