Public schools: The home front of a white Christian Nationalist war against a united America

#ChristianNationalism #Publicschools #education #dougwilson #confederacy #lostcauseofthesouth #dominionism #slavery #racism #AU
https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/public-schools-the-homefront-of-a-white-christian-nationalist-war-against-a-united-america/

María Luisa Paúl: N.C. residents sue to remove monument dedicated to ‘our faithful slaves’: Tyrrell County residents are pushing to remove a confederate monument that overlooks a North Carolina courthouse and includes a dedication to “our faithful slaves.”

"A group representing Black residents in a small North Carolina county has filed a federal lawsuit against local officials demanding that a 122-year-old monument outside a courthouse that honors “faithful slaves” be removed."

#northcarolina #lostcauseofthesouth #tyrrellcounty
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/23/confederate-monument-faithful-slaves/

The Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, often simply referred to as the Battle Flag, infrequently as the Southern Cross, or (incorrectly) as the Confederate flag, was a flag flown by the forces of (who else?) the Confederate States of America's Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. It was later used to represent all of the Confederate forces, starting with its adoption as the symbol of the United Confederate Veterans. From there, it became recognized as a symbol of the Confederacy in general, and later the South, yet more generally. Today, the flag is popular with southerners and non-southerners alike, who claim the flag represents their "heritage" and doesn't have any racist connotations at all. It is also popular with admitted racists, white supremacists, and alt-righters, who don't even try to deny its racist connotations.

#RationalWiki #lostcauseofthesouth #uscivilwar #racism
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Confederate_flag

Sidney Blumenthal: Nikki Haley’s comment on the US civil war was no gaffe

"The unexpected incident showed Haley to be slight, frightened and cowardly. Her deeper problem is that she is a slave to her party."

#nikkihaley #lostcauseofthesouth #uscivilwar #slavery
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/01/nikki-haleys-comment-on-the-us-civil-war-was-no-gaffe

Alexandra Petri: Nikki Haley explains what other things were about!

"Who is the current president of the United States?

Capitalism, of course, is so important.

Was it good or bad that a mob descended on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, yelling “Hang Mike Pence” and trying to prevent certification of the presidential election?

(laughs) Don’t go easy on me! I think the Capitol is certainly, in the hearts of Americans, a place, and capitalism itself is so important. What do you think?"

#nikkihaley #gop #lostcauseofthesouth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/29/nikki-haley-civil-war-slavery-omission-satire

Teo Armus & Hadley Green: Charlottesville’s Lee statue meets its end, in a 2,250-degree furnace: Melted down in secret, the divisive Confederate monument will be turned into a new piece of public #art

#Charlottesville #Virginia #unitetheright #swordstoplowshares #robertelee #lostcauseofthesouth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/interactive/2023/civil-war-monument-melting-robert-e-lee-confederate

The term Lost Cause of the South refers to a number of interpretations of the American Civil War from an effectively pro-Southern perspective. All wars in history have had complex, nuanced reasons for their occurrence, but the idea of the "Lost Cause" is a classic example of #denialism, where the conflict is reframed to minimize or even completely ignore the primary cause of the US Civil War; the existence of #slavery. This #mythos makes reference to a number of different themes, and these appear in various pop culture sources and persist to this day.

Almost immediately after the war ended in 1865, the defeated Southern states had to form a coherent reason why they had engaged in a rebellion against the Union. Such reason could not highlight the centrality of slavery to the Southern cause, but instead had to minimize, or even deny, the role of slavery.

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#RationalWiki #lostcause #lostcauseofthesouth
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_South