re: #103 Anymouse 🌹

That’s why I call the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia the “Dixie Swastika.”

Slave holding by Dixie planters is not really much different than Nazi forced labour camps. Neither were paid. Both abused their “charges.” Both used their efforts to support their war machines. Antebellum Dixie no longer held slaves, but Jim Crow wasn’t much different than pre-war Germany’s treatment of “undesirables.” Both killed those who opposed their systems.

When I had some free time between flights last week, I was reading about the philosophers and philosophies that influenced the Nazis and CSA. One was a Frenchman named Arthur de Gobineau, whose writings very much influenced the whole Aryan master race bs. I personally think CSA apologists are so defensive because well no one wants to admit that their ancestors fought for such a cause. But to me the tragedy of white supremacist rule is another, that returning African American servicemen in both WWI and WWII were in many cases brutally murdered. Just imagine surviving the 1918 Spring Offensive, The Bulge, or the island hoping campaigns only to return home to that.