#ooc

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Hi. Only here for an hour then off for probably 3

hihi

Nerf Anne Marie, she's OP!

nooooo

How are you?

In bed still. La aaaaaazy

Must get up to water plant babies

i should go to the notary

See if store had tomato wire

instead, I am shitting on DW Griffith

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mmm, facebook

Ah

the "heritage" people

the rebel flag is really only popular because of its use by the KKK

Uhmm

and the modern KKK is explicitly tied to Birth of a Nation

No, seriously - it didn't see much use between the war and the earl 20th century

Depends. A whole generation grew up on the Dukes of Hazard and Lynyrd Skynnard

Yup, and both of them inherited the flag from its resurgence via the KKK

What I'm saying is those two uses were naive and relatively innocent uses of the symbol that did not consciously promote white supremecy . Clearly the racists won, but one might see it as an attempt to 'redeem' the symbol that ultimately failed

That specific flag - the northern VA battle flag/2nd naval jack - was never an official flag of the confederacy, but became popularized by the DoC and the KKK.

Yes. I know.

So, anyhow - shitting on DW Griffith

hell, I like dukes of hazzard and lynyrd skynard

Well, it was a fun show and good music

I'm also not one to say somebody should, like, go back and blur the top of the general lee. I don't think Birth of a Nation should be censored.

I would be okay with a brief 'warning' that the symbol is in there before the show starts?

Forewarned and forearmed

but man, I was also struck by how some of the specific fear-mongering in it parses exactly to what the MAGA hats are bitching about today

Yeah - I wanna say WB does that with their old cartoons?

OH yeah, some of the WW2 propaganda toons period are ... ah, well, they were at WAR but DEFINITE deliberate demonetization of the enemy and quite racist.

"Slurs getting FREE STUFF!" "Helpless whites persecuted by slurs!" "The government taken over by minorities!"

"The ANARCHY of (liberal) rule!" - since this is when Republicans were the libs.

You know what? When I'm a dirty old man at 80, if I see beaches filled with hard bodied bi-racial and multi-racial babes, I will be totally okay with that.

Some folks are acting like a minority majority country is doomsday. Sigh

Why, it's almost like we treat minorities badly or something...

Human nature wins out. Not all Minorities are going to agree... not all people in the same minority agree. And it's just stupid that folks act like the Borg are invading Sigh

well, yeah. Human beings.

And yes, a lot of UGLY history does not get enough airing. I didn't know about Tulsa/Black Wall Street until a few years ago and most white folks are only learning about it now thanks to a TV show in HBO.

Might be why I get so frustrated, dunno. There are people I love who have gone down the rabbit hole about "libtards" and "antifa" and how "BLM is racist"

If they object to racists in a group they really shouldn't be GOP 😉

Yeah

Sorry, the bullshit does get to me. "There are good and bad people on bothsides" ... 😠

Yeah.... that guy shouldn't vandalize that store front.. and THAT guy... shouldn.t oh. I don't know, celebrate the genocide of 12 million people and want to do it again?

There is no equivalency here

yeah, but, well, different rules for different sides.

Yeap.