Comment on William Sherman is not a hero or an icon to be admired
Ariselas@piefed.ca 1 week ago
I didn’t know who William Sherman was till about a minute ago. If he did slaughter the buffalo, is it too late to hate him?
Comment on William Sherman is not a hero or an icon to be admired
Ariselas@piefed.ca 1 week ago
I didn’t know who William Sherman was till about a minute ago. If he did slaughter the buffalo, is it too late to hate him?
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
General Sherman was the general that led a Union army through the Confederacy during the US Civil War. The army burned a mile (~1.7 kilometers) wide path across several states.
He hated slavery and slavers, and his actions to defeat the Confederacy made him a hero for the Union.
With the current climate in the US, his actions during the Civil War have made him sort of a folk hero again.
As this meme points out, he was, by no means, a good person. Just a tool of state violence who happened to be used to do something positive.
It’s like praising a hammer that built a house for orphans then finding out it was used to kill homeless persons.