When they say the Confederacy wasn't about slavery and oppression, show them this:

[mucifer]

I got this from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgainstTrump/comments/6uzazi/when_they_say_the_confederacy_wasnt_about_slavery/?st=j6m5gvcx&sh=1adedf71

[Chipper Chat]

1. look closely.

He has "Trump eyes"

[True_Blue]

12. He has reptilian eyes like Trump

And a very bad combover too.

[PatSeg]

24. A really creepy looking man

And this is supposed to be "superior"?

[whathehell]

29. He looks dumb to me..

Kinda like "what me worry" or something.

[PatSeg]

34. It is funny

that the people who often talk about being part of a "superior race", actually look like the scum on the bottom of the barrel.

[LakeArenal]

13. Souless and empty?

Indeed.

[roomtomove]

20. That is Sessions great grandpa...

incredible resemblance!!!!!!

[dalton99a]

21. +1

[Docreed2003]

2. And that asshole....

Has a statue in the US Capitol Rotunda!!!

[Cartoonist]

5. Does he?

I doubt it.

[Orangepeel]

6. https://www.aoc.gov/art/national-statuary-hall-collection/alexander-hamilton-stephens

https://www.aoc.gov/art/national-statuary-hall-collection/alexander-hamilton-stephens

[IronLionZion]

9. "Stephens was a dedicated statesman, an effective leader and a powerful orator."

His statue has no mention of his white supremacy or secession from the United States

[Docreed2003]

15. The statue does say "Vice President of the Confederacy"

[Docreed2003]

14. Yeah, he does....

Google it if you still are skeptical...

[Moostache]

17. Someone should hang a hood on that statue EVERY day...(n/t)

[calimary]

31. Now THAT would be great!

A nice pointy white hood. Don't forget the eye holes.

[Hoyt]

3. It's kind of hard to get state rights, preserving agarian economy, and similar BS, out of that.

Several southern states' articles of succession say something like that, although not quite as direct.

[calimary]

33. Yes, and don't forget, they prefer to call it "The War of Northern Aggression."

My companion term for that would be "The War of Southern Racist Pig-Headedness." Simplified, perhaps, to "The War of Southern Wrongness."

Wrongness | Define Wrongness at Dictionary.com
www.dictionary.com/browse/wrongness
Wrongness definition, not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed. See more.

[inanna]

4. Using this from The Cornerstone Speech completely stymies the neo-confederates

in any debate. It shows exactly what the confederacy was about. They just do not know how to respond to this FACT.

Recommended.

[Bradical79]

7. Does any other country do this?

By this I mean whitewashing history of their traitors and build monuments to them.. Just read his bio:

https://www.aoc.gov/art/national-statuary-hall-collection/alexander-hamilton-stephens

[Aviation Pro]

8. Got a little Beauregard in there

The sallow faced fuck.

[IronLionZion]

10. One doesn't enslave equals as property

the whole concept of slavery is based on the slavers believing themselves to be superior to their slaves.

And confederate symbols are used by people who have no confederate history and there are many statues in states that were not part of the confederacy.

[Louis1895]

11. Read the whole speech - it gets worse

I like having academic sources for speeches such as this one since Reddit sometimes publishes "fake" news.

I found this:

https://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ras2777/amgov/stephens.html

Lots memorable quotes in the two speeches reproduced there, such as

"The great truth, I repeat, upon which our system rests, is the inferiority of the African."

[dalton99a]

22. +1

[RVN VET71]

16. It wasn't just bite eared Stephens, either. Check this out:

The Texas statement of secession and declaration of causes written February 2, 1861, makes clear its citizens wished to then and forever hold slaves in bondage and uphold the institution of slavery.

It reads in part: “Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated States to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people..... She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery--the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits--a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time. “

Every confederate was in it for slavery. Every confederate was in it for the selling of human beings, for the chattle slavery of men, women, and children. Every goddam confederate was a goddam white mother f***ing supremacist. That is the "sacred heritage" of that barbaric and bestial culture. Had a refined veneer, but scratch a "southern gentleman" and you see his ugliness oozing out like
pus from an infected wound.

Chew on that, Bobby Lee!

End of story.

[Moostache]

18. The danger is allowing these southern states to persist in their delusions...

They teach that the Civil War was the "great war of northern aggression" STILL. They down play slavery at every turn and instead use the code words we all know..."states rights", "self-determination" and other such nonsense...

Ask these sons-of-bitches that persist in this deluded state if their would have still been a war if the south has decreed slavery a moral hazard and made it illegal.

[byronius]

19. The ugly just beams out from that man.

So glad he lost. So glad. Grateful.

And I hope they lose again, and may they someday lose forever.

[Raven123]

23. Important to have this available when FaceTime one who argues the C.W. was fought over states rights

[yuiyoshida]

25. I wonder what other races he detested or felt

Superior to?

[zentrum]

26. He looks like Sessions....

Enough to make one believe in reincarnation.

[procon]

27. I'm actually impressed.

He touched every one of the 7 classic Propaganda Techniques. Remarkably, he did completely unawares and crafted The Big Lie that convinced millions of seemingly normal people that one human being was entitled to own another human being based on nothing more than a preference of color.

[Orrex]

28. I've raised that point to them a number of times over the years

In most cases, they've never heard of it.

They tend to dismiss it either as "taken out of context" or "not representative of the actual views of the Confederacy."


Yes, they've had a lot of practice at dismissing inconvenient truths...

[calimary]

30. EEEWWWWW. Makes me want to take a shower and wash it off.

[Aristus]

32. Jackie Earl Haley played Stevens in Spielberg's "Lincoln"

Doing what Jackie Earl Haley does best: exuding an air of quiet menace.

[calimary]

36. Wow! That's one helluva casting job!

[moondust]

35. Sounds like Nazi eugenics.

Guess I never considered the possibility that the Nazis may have borrowed some of their ideology from the old U.S. Confederates.

[niyad]

37. truth does not matter to these cretins