I’m really glad this anti-Confederate backlash has picked up steam, because we’ve allowed Confederate apologists to completely seize control of Civil War history. The fact that we even think of it in terms of “North vs. South” or “Union vs. Confederacy” is a sign of that influence. It should be “America’s Slaveowner Revolt.” We ask questions like “what if the South won the war”, as if that was remotely possible given their numbers and logistical failures. The Confederacy was barely a government. Within a year of forming there were riots from food shortages. The whole notion that this was between two equally formidable and legitimate sides is a fallacy of the so-called Lost Cause.

This isn’t griping from a history buff by the way, the Lost Cause has been one of America’s chief guardians of white supremacy for 150 years. The Big Lie about states rights affects politics to this day, and always in the context of letting states curtail civil rights that the federal government has guaranteed. Prior to the Civil War, when Northern states tried to push back against fugitive slave laws and make themselves sanctuaries for runaway slaves, the government cracked down hard on them. There was not a peep about states rights on that. We see it happening today. The states rights scolds have not said a word about Jeff Sessions threatening to destroy cities that refuse to hunt undocumented immigrants. Yet somehow the rights of states become sacrosanct when they want to keep gay couples from adopting kids. All of this is relevant to our current situation, and hopefully taking down some statues of (frankly overrated) treasonous generals is just the beginning.

rootiepatootie:

fandomsandfeminism:

Nestle says slavery reporting requirements could cost customers

Fuckers

This, I can believe, Nestle’s is a scum bag company ………. (I avoid buying any product from them, when at all possible)

The problem, of course, is that nestle owns a huge number of brands on the market . Over 2,000 in fact. So without extensive time to research every product in your basket, its very hard to be sure you havent bought a nestle product, and most of their competitors are also morally dubious at best, if on a smaller scale for the most part.

So yes, nestle is evil. The underlying problem is our poorly regulated economic system that facilitates this evil.

In case you didn’t know:

fandomsandfeminism:

The Electoral College originally heavily favored Slave States, because the large slave populations contributed to electoral points, but obviously slaves could not vote, so voting whites in those states had more political power per vote.

And NOWADAYS, the Electoral College heavily favors states with high prison populations for exactly the same reasons.

it’s never really been addressed how John Simm’s master traumatised Martha Jones’ entire family and made them Actual Slaves, and if this was a show that actually had continuity and it should really have the Doctor and Bill actually sit down to have a serious talk about racism if we’re going to have this whole “is Missy turning good?” question over our heads

beachdeath:

okay i think “sixpenceeee’s family owns an eight-year-old child slave” just superseded the leelah project scam as the most flagrantly immoral and surreal thing to ever happen on this website