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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
"pride in heritage"?
Does "pride in heritage" mean "pride in the Union (the United States)'s heritage"?
Background info:
The Confederacy was About Slavery
Those who defend the right of people to display the confederate flag, and decry the "pride in heritage" indicated thereby, and do civil war reenactments, and generally lionize the Confederacy and its memory, seem always to be in denial that the war was fought because some wanted to preserve the right to enslave. The following is taken from an article from Salon Magazine by Michael Lind. If there are any here on A2K who deny the centrality of slavery in the motives of the secessionists, who want to bury any mention of that ugly truth beneath some obfuscated twaddle about state's rights, I'd like to direct their attention, and encourage them to please reply, to this. Especially to the quote from the Vice-President of the Confederacy, taken from a speech in which he clearly states what the confederacy is based on:
Background info:
The Confederacy was About Slavery
Those who defend the right of people to display the confederate flag, and decry the "pride in heritage" indicated thereby, and do civil war reenactments, and generally lionize the Confederacy and its memory, seem always to be in denial that the war was fought because some wanted to preserve the right to enslave. The following is taken from an article from Salon Magazine by Michael Lind. If there are any here on A2K who deny the centrality of slavery in the motives of the secessionists, who want to bury any mention of that ugly truth beneath some obfuscated twaddle about state's rights, I'd like to direct their attention, and encourage them to please reply, to this. Especially to the quote from the Vice-President of the Confederacy, taken from a speech in which he clearly states what the confederacy is based on:
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I don't see how this makes sense. "decry the 'pride in heritage' indicated thereby" seems incompatible with the other statements in the first sentence.
- I don't see how this makes sense.
- "decry the 'pride in heritage' indicated thereby" seems incompatible with the other statements in the first sentence.
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I don't see how this makes sense. "decry the 'pride in heritage' indicated thereby" seems incompatible with the other statements in the first sentence.
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