President Donald Trump is more overtly leaning into some of the spoils of his office in his second term, drawing comparisons to French Queen Marie Antoinette from political opponents.
The number of “rednecks”, “southerners”, “hillbillies” etc that don’t know about the Battle of Blair Mountain and what it was over… just sad. For a culture that loves to talk about their “heritage” they sure seem to be oblivious to a lot of it.
Putting “thin blue line” stickers on their trucks and insulting unions and union workers…
The education in those places is a huge part of the problem. They have probably never heard the ideas of these uprisings and massacres, and they were never taught to be intellectually curious enough to look into it themselves. It might’ve had a paragraph in the textbook about “labor rights” movement.
Gotta remember that the textbooks for basically the entire US are determined by an extremely conservative group based in Texas.
Correct, I’m from the south, my school was actually well funded especially in comparison to most, and if I weren’t naturally curious with an eye for the spurious I wouldn’t know about any of the riots all across the south, not about race but about wages and taking down bosses. Shit I just recently found out i had kin take part in the textile strikes and riots during that time that was just never discussed
The number of “rednecks”, “southerners”, “hillbillies” etc that don’t know about the Battle of Blair Mountain and what it was over… just sad. For a culture that loves to talk about their “heritage” they sure seem to be oblivious to a lot of it.
Putting “thin blue line” stickers on their trucks and insulting unions and union workers…
They just love their “culture” of owning other humans. That’s literally it.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug
The education in those places is a huge part of the problem. They have probably never heard the ideas of these uprisings and massacres, and they were never taught to be intellectually curious enough to look into it themselves. It might’ve had a paragraph in the textbook about “labor rights” movement.
Gotta remember that the textbooks for basically the entire US are determined by an extremely conservative group based in Texas.
Correct, I’m from the south, my school was actually well funded especially in comparison to most, and if I weren’t naturally curious with an eye for the spurious I wouldn’t know about any of the riots all across the south, not about race but about wages and taking down bosses. Shit I just recently found out i had kin take part in the textile strikes and riots during that time that was just never discussed
Part and parcel of the intended dynamic I would say. It’s all a soup of disastrous bits and pieces
Hence why I loathe my kinfolk so much. Bunch of fucken disgraces to our forefathers.