Why should Southern heritage be defended? Why is Southern heritage relevant in the 21st century?
There is a simple answer: the South was right, the North was wrong, and American civilization is literally being destroyed because the North won the argument. The triumph of the North over the South meant the triumph of anti-racism over race realism, integration over segregation, guilt culture over honor culture, racial equality over white supremacy, abolition over slavery, liberalism over conservatism, urbanization over agrarianism, consolidation over states’ rights, etc.
As a result, the federal government is out of control, every important decision is now made in Washington, the Money Power on Wall Street is bankrupting the country, White people have been stripped of their freedom and dignity, African-Americans have been deified by DWLs, countless small towns, cities, counties, and major metropolitan areas have been destroyed the Black Undertow, and now everyone in the North and the South has pay homage to Martin Luther King Jr. and live under Black Run Amerika.
It didn’t have to be this way.
A strong education in Southern heritage (by that I mean the real thing) is the most powerful antidote in America to what “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman labeled “the virus of equality.” Traditional Southerners didn’t believe in the concept of “equality” or “diversity” and their social system reflected their own belief in “hierarchy” and “inequality” at every level.
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The only accuracy in this giant pile of horseshit:
the North won the argument
By your own admition, you are wrong. If you wish to effect change, please feel free to secede from the Union. See what happens then...
And so the American Civil War flares up again, after a short cease-fire of about 147 years.
And I'd like to predict that the "North" will win again.
live under Black Run Amerika.
I'd rather live under Amerika than Amerikkka.
“Pitchfork” Ben Tillman
*smirk* You talk about the greatness of Southern heritage, then mention a guy who has the nickname "Pitchfork?" Way to look like you're not a bunch of backward hicks.
"Traditional Southerners didn’t believe in the concept of “equality” or “diversity” and their social system reflected their own belief in “hierarchy” and “inequality” at every level."
Damm! He Really Got Something Right!
So I take it that there's plentiful evidence of how the South is thriving in every way, holding up the rest of the United States, which is in a state of deep decline, only surviving on the competence and generosity of it's Southern half?
Oh wait no, the South is an economic sinkhole which receives more money in welfare than it pays in tax, and most in the North welcome the idea of Southern secession, because it would prevent them from having to foot the bill for lazy, work-shy, inbred morons and their bastard spawn.
It's so very indicative of the state of play there, that intelligent and reasonable Southerners are considered a minority, and feel the need to distance themselves from the rest of you (see Power Skunk's comment at #1368837).
I hope for the day that they are the norm, not the exception.
I really hope this is a Poe. Otherwise, something is very rotten in the states of Dixie. In that case, it's no wonder Texas, Florida and Louisiana want to distance themselves from you guys
Wow... at least he admitted abolition was part of liberalism rather than "good ol' conservatism".
Aside from that (and the blatant racism), the South lost! Get over it. Quit your whining. It will not change history! Funny how your kind thinks the north are whiners, yet we don't whine about the 1860s!
You talk about honor? Don't hold a grudge over something that happened over 150 years ago! Get over it! That can't be stressed enough! Grow up and get over it!
No no no no, this is completely wrong. The reason the US is so fucked up right now is because the North didn't do a good enough job of eradicating Southern culture. If the Allies had done to post-WWII Germany what the Union did to the Confederacy during Reconstruction, then I bet that Nazism would still be a popular political philosophy in Germany today, assuming that it didn't collapse into yet another dictatorship. Reconstruction was the greatest of all failures. In traditional history textbooks, the period is demonized, but for all the wrong reasons. Immediately after the Northern troops left, the South enacted Jim Crow laws and founded the terrorist group called the Ku Klux Klan, allowing the status quo ante bellum to return. Civil rights had to wait another 100 years, and this is why there are far more ultraconservatives in the lands of the former Confederacy compared to pretty much everywhere else that is not a theocracy. The fact that people like Wallace exists proves that Reconstruction failed.
What the Union should have done immediately after the Civil War would have been rather similar to the denazification which occurred after the Second World War. I've said this once before and I'm saying it again because the parallels are uncanny. Within only a single decade after the war, mainstream opinion among the German people changed from "Jews are evil and Hitler is our leader and protector" to "Hitler was the scum of the earth and the Holocaust should never have happened." Assuming that there is no difference among how populations behave, there is absolutely no reason to believe that such a radical shift could not have happened in the post-bellum South had Reconstruction gone properly. But instead, the North missed its chance, and now we descendants of the Northerners, as well as all Southerners who have managed to defy their surrounding culture and become sane, rational Americans in spite of it, have to deal with it.
To paraphrase the Simpsons-
Republicans: Not racist but #1 with racists.
Seriously though, Newt Gingrich is proof enough just by hisself that racism still seethes in the Republican party.
I'm sure that some businesses would love it if slavery was still legal so they wouldn't have to pay their workers, so that instead of just treating them like slaves, they could just have some and make more money and get even more ludicrous executive pay.
What honor had the blacks that were kidnapped, treated like animals and not extended the same courtships than the whites?. I mean, if you want people to make you rich, at least gives them at least SOMETHING tiny tiny or whatever, in exchange.
"African-Americans have been deified by DWLs, countless small towns, cities, counties, and major metropolitan areas have been destroyed the Black Undertow"
Wow, I didn't know I was considered a deity in America. I wouldn't know by all the anti-black comments I run across on teh Internets.
And really? "The Black Undertow"? Black people are destroying Atlanta? A majority-black city and one of the most economically booming cities in the US currently? Prince George's County, MD is destroyed under the "Black Undertow" as well? PG County is majority-black and is one of the 100 wealthiest counties in the US. Many of the country's 100 wealthiest counties are 5-50% black. Somehow the "Black Undertow" seems to miss them.
I guess the Rustbelt, Bible Belt and Inland Empire are just bustling and thriving economically having a large majority-white population? Or perhaps things like ECONOMICS has something to do with wealth and there's nothing magical about skin color that makes people able to generate wealth? Just a crazy thought....
Your last sentence is exactly why your idea of "Southern heritage" should not be defended.
(note the "your idea of." State and regional history can be really interesting and I'm not going to say that racism is the only heritage the South has. But it's what this douchebag is emphasizing.)
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