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Since the Charleston shooting I’ve found myself being pushed more and more to the right. It’s odd for me because I’ve always been a moderate (even liberal on some issues). But I’m a 57 year old Southern Woman who is proud of my heritage. Because of that I’ve been labeled a racist, a traitor and a Nazi (by implication) by folks on the internet who don’t anything about me but what I’ve just mentioned. And suddenly I see it – the hatred of many (not going to generalize and say “all”) on the left for anything they disagree with and/or don’t understand. People who lash out and name call based on a knee-jerk reactions and little real knowledge either of the people they are attacking or the history they seem to think they are experts on. Indeed, these people have managed to turn not only today’s Southerners, but all, into one-dimensional racist buffoons. History is a lot more complicated than that because it’s made by real people – who are complicated.
I have a degree in history and I’ve studied US history from Colonial times through Vietnam. The history of slavery goes back hundreds of years. The sectional differences of the US states began before the ink was dry on the Constitution. It can’t be boiled down to a soundbite. And calling people names only demonstrates a lack of any but the most superficial knowledge of the history of the US, but also a rabid refusal to do more than cast stones from some kind of self righteous Neverland. From the flag, to the monuments, to the Dukes of Hazzard – it’s just too much. And it has caused more division than the shooting that started this ever could have. People came together after that in support and shock. Then it dwindled into attacks on heritage and charges of racism – toward people who not only didn’t support Roof, but were outraged at his actions. It has succeeded not only in division, but in the alienation of people like myself who find they have had all the insults and misjudgment they can take.
Grow a thicker skin and put stuff in perspective!! I mean seriously. The Dukes of Hazzard? A corporation having cancelled that show (how many even watched it by the way?) is helping to cause more division than a shooting that caused 9 innocent people their lives? Come on!!!
A huge percentage of the left is proudly bigoted towards Southern white people and their culture, and Christians who try to live according to the teachings of the Bible.
The only way to take diminish this onslaught of lynch-mob style bigotry from the left is to start calling them out on it. Shaming them if that is the popular way to say it now. And of course they should be ashamed. Also, if they are honestly and publicly called out on this enough times, the tide will begin to recede. But as long as people like you go with the politically correct flow and just refuse to say anything, it will continue unabated, and likely even get worse.
I am glad you have seen the light. Great post, and thanks for speaking up about this important subject.
The beginning of slavery in the USA was Boston. And they flew the flag of the USA.
You purposely are not getting it. Te south went to war partially to protect slavery. That is why many see the confederacy as racist.
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