“In 2000, Virginia legislators got involved, asking Governor Jesse Ventura to return their captured icon.
‘Why?’ he asked. ‘We won.’”
LMAAAAO
All the salty racists in the comments are a cherry on top.
Die mad about it energy strong af
Okay but this is a story that @dadhoc loves to talk about because this is a REALLY BIG DEAL in Minnesota.
I have heard the story of The First Minnesota at LEAST ONE HUNDRED TIMES in the course of my marriage and now I GET TO TELL THE REST OF YOU.
So. It’s not just ANY Confederate flag. It is the Confederate flag that the First Minnesota captured on July 3rd, 1863. The First Minnesota prevented the Union line from crumbling by keeping the Federalists from being pushed off of Cemetery Ridge on July 2nd, and on July 2nd, the First Minnesota sustained 82% casualties.
EIGHTY-TWO PERCENT CASUALTIES. They started out as 262 men and ended as 47. But they held the line. They held. The. Line. Then on July 3rd they were placed in one of the few places where the line was breached, and they thus had to charge in again and retake the line breaches, and they did.
It was during one of these charges – remember, they’d already lost eighty-two percent of their friends – that Private Marshall Sherman of Company C captured the flag. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for this.
The survivors of the First Minnesota at Gettysburg served through the rest of the war.
Now, Virginians have asked for it back repeatedly, saying ‘it’s our heritage.’ But the response from the Minnesota Historical Society has basically been, as @dadhoc has summed it up, “to us, this is the legacy of 215 men who were killed or wounded in the preservation of the Union. What, exactly, is its legacy to you?”
No one’s been able to give an answer that isn’t ‘it’s our legacy of trying to destroy the US over slavery,’ because there isn’t one.
Fuck Virginia wanting that flag back, it belongs in Minnesota.
Y’all can keep it. Gods know we have enough Confederate flags as it is.
you want us to come on down there and capture those too? we’ll do it if you want. we ain’t proud. or tired.
another reminder that white supremacy and capitalism are intrinsically linked
“I mean, we built the database systems the nazis used to organize their death camps to run efficiently, but surely this time constructing a racialized database for an increasingly violent police state will have no negative consequences for anybody, you guys!”
moral of the story is…..being racist and bitter makes you age like milk
this bitch is FORTY THREE????
43 decades
Yet this post is the most racist shit.
How… Is this racist what?
Racism goes both ways.
How is this post racist
If I made a post that compared black people’s skulls to white people’s I’d get called a racist. Here you are saying white people age faster.
This post is about a specific racist woman. But funny you read the statement ‘Racist people age faster’ and immediately saw it as an attack on white people.
Almost as if there’s an antiwhite bias on this site. And racism doesn’t suddenly become okay when it’s directed toward a racist.
My point is this isn’t racism. Even if racism against white people was an actual harmfull issue, nowhere in this post is the race of her or any of the other women mentionned or alluded to. This is about racists.
So you’re trying to tell me that it’s just a coincidence that all the women on the right side just so happened to be white?
The cover of the next Stern, a German news magazine.
The title Sein Kampf (transl. his struggle) is a play on the title of Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf (transl. my struggle).
The full translation of the cover would be
HIS STRUGGLE
Neonazis, Ku-Klux-Klan, Racism:
How Donald Trump is stirring up hatred in America
When Germans call you a Nazi….
I see so much commentary in the tags about how Trump can’t be a Nazi because he’s pro-Israel, and I’m sitting here like, guys. Children. Nazi doesn’t mean “kills Jews.” That was the horrible outcome. The ideology itself was putting one’s own nation above all else (ring a bell?) while undermining democratic values (RING A BELL?) and being blatantly racist (RING A… you know what, forget it, you’re not listening to me anyway).
Instead of anti-communism you now have fierce pro-capitalism and instead of Jewish people being called animals you now have immigrants facing the same hatred. You already have the denunciations and people walking from door to door trying to root out “illegals.”
Current US politics may not involve any gas chambers, but Hitler didn’t burst on the political scene with “Let’s kill all the Jews!” either. If you honestly think US policies won’t escalate further, especially if Trump gets a second term, you’re standing chin-deep in denial.
As Jewish people have consistently pointed out: Trump also DOES surround himself with a lot of prominent antisemites.
Which is consistent with his support of the state of Israel because supporting antisemitism and supporting Israel are compatible. If you want your own country to not have any Jewish people without having to plan all the messy ‘genocide’ stuff, it’s useful to have a country to push them towards. (a country which conveniently makes a good military base for US imperialism). No surprise there.
If anyone thinks all this shit isn’t going to also harm Jewish Americans, they’re either fooling themselves or is deliberately ignoring antisemitism.
(Trigger warning: descriptions of murder methods, Holocaust)
Jup, people think of the Holocaust as this pre-made plan that was thought out from start to finish, but that’s not true. Hitler dreamed of a ‘Jewish-free’ Germany from day one, but how that could be achieved was never sure.
After his rise to power in 1933, the first concentration camps were filled mainly with political opponents, (of course quite a few political opponents were Jewish, since Jewish Germans had very good reasons not to like Hitler).
The Nazi regime started out banning Jewish people from jobs, banning interracial marriages, trying to isolate Jewish people socially, using street violence and pushing Jewish people to leave Germany. The Nazis didn’t really care where the Jewish people went as long as they left.
At this point in history,
extermination
camps for mass murder were most definitely not on the agenda. No one had invented them yet and the isolating of Jewish people was not a deliberate step towards mass murder. Pushing immigration effective enough.
By 1939, around 250,000 of Germany’s 437,000 Jews had emigrated to places like the US, Argentina, the United Kingdom, Palestine, and other
countries.
But a lot of countries closed their borders to Jewish refugees and there were very few places left to go to by 1938. Then Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and suddenly it had a loooooot more Jewish people and no place left to push them to. So it began rounding up Jewish people in ghettos, without really knowing what to do with them next. Mass deportation was considered. It was in this period that they started thinking about pushing all Jewish Poles to move to Madagascar or some other colony.
Pushing all Jewish Poles into the Soviet Union was also considered and when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in june 1941, they started mass murdering Jewish populations through mass shootings. When that proved too nauseating for the soldiers, gas vans were brought in to gas people to death on site.
When the war in the west and the war in the east both dragged on, it became clear that there was no way to send Jewish people out of the Third Reich through battlefields. Only then, at the start of 1942, was the idea of pushing Jewish people out of the Reich abandoned completely and only then was the decision made to kill all Jewish people within their territory and only then were extermination camps conceived.
TL;DR: For the majority of the history of the Third Reich, violently pushing Jewish people to immigrate was an important part of Nazi policy and possible locations for a ‘Jewish state’ were considered to achieve that goal. Genocide became a nazi policy slowly over the course of 9 years.
This is not news, but it is an important read, especially for people who were previously unaware of the trend of neo-Nazis stealing pagan symbols for their own.
If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist pagan, keep doing what you are doing, you are keeping the fight alive
If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist person who is not a pagan, help us spread the word of this, stand in solidarity with us as we kick the fascists out of our communities
If you are a fascist pagan, fuck off, this faith is a peaceful one
No platforms for fascists.
~ Max
Uh… there was absolutely no need to be rude in that message?
Why the fuck off? Sure they’re bigoted/racist/homophobic but they were polite and civil, why couldn’t it just have been said ‘we don’t have anyone to share your views, thank you for contacting us and bye’?
Shut the fuck up geek nobody needs to treat assholes politely
Abhorrent, vile bigotry wrapped in “ please and thank yous” isnt polite. Its disgusting.
Hi, I’m an old person and I’m here to tell you all that life’s too short to waste being polite to openly racist assholes.
Absolutely tell them to fuck off. Their feelings are not your problem.
“You could be nicer.”
Well, they could have been NOT RACIST.
If someone asks if they can come into your house and shit on your dinner table during Thanksgiving because they would like to eat your food but also hate your family, friends, and neighbors, you don’t say “Thanks for contacting us! We can’t accommodate you. I hope you can find another table to shit on though! :)”
You chase their ass off and get a restraining order because they are revolting human beings who should be shamed for their repugnant acts and beliefs.
wupacing 