There’s a peculiar form of blindness that comes from prolonged safety. Like a frog in slowly heating water, people who have known only stability become incapable of recognizing existential th…

“[…] what we’re witnessing now is the systematic dismantling of this entire architecture of peace—not through external defeat, but through internal surrender”

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    1 day ago

    The thing about the confeds is that there were multiple generations that were brought up to revere them in very large swathes of the US. And that’s a core part of how the fuck we got here in the first place.

    • Placebonickname@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 day ago

      Interesting fact… If you go through Department of War records, there are no medals of any type issued to Soldiers from the south. Wanna know why? Cause they were never part of the US Military, they were a rebellion that attempted to change, attack, and suppress the law of the land using violence and force.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        8·
        1 day ago

        I mean, of course. But at the same time there are shitloads of statues of and military bases named after confederate heroes in the south. Official recognition is not the same as colloquial and societal recognition, and the confeds sure as shit had that since reconstruction was kneecapped following Lincoln’s assassination.

        • Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io
          2·
          24 hours ago

          At least the names of all the bases named after Confederates were changed a few years ago. West Point also renamed things that were named after Lee (which only existed because for the sake of Reconciliation after the war).