William Sherman is not a hero or an icon to be admired

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• ChokingHazard@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m more upset the racists were left in large enough numbers to retake the government.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wait, why is it racist to hate some general?

  They’re all tools of the state, and perfectly valid to hate

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sherman used brutal tactics to break the confederacy morale, including the burning of Atlanta. So, someone opposing Sherman because they’re racist is someone who thinks the confederacy was actually a good thing. Cause, ya know, they’re racist. Or very stupid. But, I repeat myself.

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I still don’t think that hating a general that would destroy civilian infrastructure and lives is a racist thing.

      Defeating the Confederacy wasn’t a one man project. Other generals did their part, without the brutality or wanton destruction. Dude committed a war crime, by modern standards. It’s perfectly reasonable to hate him as much as it is to hate Rommel, or Hannibal.

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  WTH is going on with the font there?

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• Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?

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  • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• plateee@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I first read this as William Shatner and was incredibly upset at first, then severely confused for the last half.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shatner is a notorious bison-hater. Very well known for that. Even had it written into Kirk’s character. Some of the earliest Star Trek lore.

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• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Valid honestly

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• tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  his sister is my triple-great grandmother.

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  • Sirius006@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The father of your triple grandmother killed the buffaloes. Prepare to die!

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