RT @foxmusk@twitter.com

I like my southern history and I like the flag. I recognize that’s complicated for people who weren’t raised around it. A lot of us were, and that importance won’t change. We can talk about it or we can not, but I’m not sorry and I’m still not the closet racist people think I am.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/foxmusk/status/135

This has big "I'm not a Nazi, I just like the uniforms OK????" energy.

Not to Godwin this whole thing or anything, but...part of growing as a person is learning to let go of the problematic shit you identified with in ignorance

And I don't want to dunk on @/foxmusk; I don't know him, and I'm willing to take his comments at face value.

But..."liking" your Southern history is a flag to me. Southern history is one of racist terror, subjugation, dehumanization, willful, violent, malicious bigotry.

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Southern history is indelibly tied to the slavery of black Americans for hundreds of years; dehumanization and disenfranchisement that is still being practiced TODAY.

What...is there to like? I don't see how someone who says that isn't willfully overlooking this.

@jakebe
I'm confused. Is Northern history not tied to slavery?

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