Every time I think I know what to expect
May. 7th, 2006 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzilla. . . I misunderestimate right-wing lunatics still further.
I knew it was a mistake to follow the link![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
supergee provided to Michelle "Internment Camps? Sounds Good to Me!" Malkin's post about the Texas Rangers wearing "Los Rangers" jerseys to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. I knew the post would be petty, stupid, and awful.
Even then, I wasn't expecting this:
No, Michelle, you'll be labeled a racist for comparing a war fought to avoid conquest by overseas imperialists with a traitorous rebellion fought to allow people to buy and sell other people like livestock. It's a typically unhinged Malkinism, with extra historical idiocy thrown in.
None of my "nation's heroes" died fighting for the slavers. There were many brave people on the side of the slave-holders--there are brave people on any side in any war--but they were no none of them my nation's heroes. They were true traitors in a way that today's right wing only aspire to be.
I knew it was a mistake to follow the link
supergee provided to Michelle "Internment Camps? Sounds Good to Me!" Malkin's post about the Texas Rangers wearing "Los Rangers" jerseys to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. I knew the post would be petty, stupid, and awful. Even then, I wasn't expecting this:
While it's considered a celebration of "diversity" to acknowledge the military sacrifices of another nation's heroes, it's considered racist to acknowledge the military sacrifices of one's own.
Case in point: Can you imagine if someone proposed changing the Rangers' jerseys to "Confederate Rangers" to celebrate Confederate Heroes' Day?
Oh, and I'm sure I'll be labeled a racist for pointing out the double standard.
No, Michelle, you'll be labeled a racist for comparing a war fought to avoid conquest by overseas imperialists with a traitorous rebellion fought to allow people to buy and sell other people like livestock. It's a typically unhinged Malkinism, with extra historical idiocy thrown in.
None of my "nation's heroes" died fighting for the slavers. There were many brave people on the side of the slave-holders--there are brave people on any side in any war--but they were no none of them my nation's heroes. They were true traitors in a way that today's right wing only aspire to be.
