Because celebrating our founding fathers and the president who oversaw the end of slavery is different than celebrating Confederates?
Your white privilege smells like beef and cheese.
Because celebrating our founding fathers and the president who oversaw the end of slavery is different than celebrating Confederates?
Because celebrating our founding fathers and the president who oversaw the end of slavery is different than celebrating Confederates?
This is neither here nor there, but I don't think the "founding fathers" are particularly under-celebrated.
But I'm not sure why celebrating International Workers Day is more "insane" or dissonant than celebrating Confederate Memorial Day.
I don't know why you keep bring it up.
They're different things from different states.
They can both be insane
Because one exists, and has existed, fully entrenched in our society and the other...doesn't, currently. One is worth an O Tempora! O Mores! post, but the other one isn't?
An under-appreciated feature of this thread and this broader discussion is that some of these reactions--and, yes, sometimes performative over-reactions--are in response to historical inequities and injustices that some folks just don't want to address or account for. So my best advice is to do some hard questioning of the whys and wherefores without falling back on pure knee-jerk ideological reaction.