The Secesh category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald skewers the Alabama Attorney-General Marshall’s claim that “he would never use the law as a means to politcal ends.” A state court recently ruled that a hastily-passed Alabana law to protect Confederate monuments was unconstitutional; Archibald argues that Marshall’s decision to appeal that court’s ruling is as political as it gets. A snippet:
Marshall will do everything in his power to make sure places like Birmingham and people like the descendants of slaves have no say in whether the monuments to the Confederate Lost Cause stand on their land and in their faces like a giant middle finger.
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Shaun Mullen meditates on the rise of the New Secesh.
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Mike comments on Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Confederate cosplay (warning: language).
Ahistorical Monuments 0
Excerpt:
The argument is always made that removing these monuments is erasing history. The monuments themselves were put up to erase history.
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Thom traces the Republican Party’s path to becoming the party of the New Secesh.
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Will Bunch is dismayed at how some white Southerners keep hanging on to the past.
Lurkers in the Dark, Reprise 0
The Sunday New York Times Magazine explores how and why law enforcement misread the threat of right-wing domestic terrorism.
It’s a long, complex, and depressing tale and, unfortunately, required reading for our times.
The Sessions Is Adjourned 0
Despite any ancillary circumstances, Tony Norman can’t find it in him to regret the firing of Jeff Sessions. A snippet:
Even as Mr. Trump regularly berated him on Twitter as “weak,” Mr. Sessions used his knowledge of the arcane ways of Washington to effectively undermine every reasonable expectation of justice on every level. Like a beaten dog that never tires of licking the hand of its abusive master, Mr. Sessions was always eager to please the president with some nefarious act of cruelty after disappointing him in the one matter that meant the most to him.
The abbreviated version of the sins of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as attorney general reads like a reverse polaroid of American values.
Follow the link for the bill of particulars.
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David explains how Donald Trump doesn’t use dog whistles; he shouts out loud.
Mythology 0
One more time, when you hear persons lament The Lost Cause, ask them what specifically was the cause that was lost.
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Thom discusses how racism and racist violence have ramped up in the last few years and suggests that the unifying force on the far right is hatred.
Monumental Lapses 0
Jon Broadway points out that those who defend Confederate monuments to secession and rebellion as representing “history” conveniently forget the history that they represent.
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In a titanic struggle between rationality and rationalization, Thom tangles with a Confederate monument apologist.
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The Austin, Texas, city council has passed a measure eliminating “fee waivers” for Confederate groups who wish to march in the Austin Veterans Day Parade. Said groups, natch, are protesting that they are being discriminated against. At the Austin Statesman, Alberta Phillips points out the ludicrousness of their plaints. Here’s a bit (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the rest.