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Fire Memes for Traitor Haters
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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.
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Has the country healed? I can understand and appreciate the idea that we are better than that, but what happens when you cut out only part of the cancer? Although to be fair, who knows what the next 175 years would have brought and what stories would have been told if the Confederate leaders had been justifiably executed.
That's a good question and the answer really depends on your world view and assumptions. I can see valid arguments either answer and reasonable people could disagree about it.
But at least the union leadership tried to offer mercy.