People in the US state of Georgia are still seething about the dopest march to the sea ever marched. Seriously, not even just ultra-chuds, mentions of General Sherman really hit nerves. Lol, stay mad you Peachy Pooters.
People in the US state of Georgia are still seething about the dopest march to the sea ever marched. Seriously, not even just ultra-chuds, mentions of General Sherman really hit nerves. Lol, stay mad you Peachy Pooters.
A) no, it really fucking doesn't.
B) Sherman was pro-slavery, that may have been a consequence of the war but it wasn't why he was fighting.
C) After the civil war, Sherman was promoted to Lieutenant General in command of the Military of Missouri, where he
He did so well at exterminating the Sioux, Cherokee, Navajo and countless other peoples that in 1869 he was promoted to General of The Army, the highest military position in the United States, and placed in charge of waging the same sort of total war of extermination against all the native people's of North America. He had command over the US army until 1883. He personally oversaw and ordered the genocide of far more native Americans, with far more glee, than he ever did confederates.
D) Like fucking Churchill, Sherman was a murderous, genocidal reactionary imperialist who liberals glorify (out of nationalist fervor) because (for largely horrible reasons) he ended up in conflict with other reactionaries, despite the fact that they both ordered the murder of far more of the people they were colonising, and with far less reluctance. Saying "it's cool and good the Nazis/Confederates lost" is absolutely fine, but posting Churchill in front of a British flag smoking a cigar and making a "witty" quote or some nonsense about god save the queen, or a flattering depiction of Sherman in front of the Union flag with a patriotic US song (land of the free 🤢) crosses a fucking line and should not have a place on this site because both of those men did terrible things to colonised people, for what those flags represent, than they ever did good with their reactionary infighting, and unlike the reactionary infighting liberals and anglophone society in general heaps praises on those men for, there is an active effort to deny, cover up and downplay far worst colonial genocides they spearheaded, ordered and oversaw, which posting about them so positively participates in.