A sneaking suspicion

[orangecrush]

I am starting to get the sneaking suspicion the Confederacy was insufficiently punished

— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) 2026-05-07T23:55:35.758Z

[sheshe2]

1. And the Klan never died.

They were just dormant under the sheets for a bit.

[dalton99a]

2. The rebel leaders should have been tried and executed.

[yellow dahlia]

3. Indeed.

With what's going on with gerrymandering - maybe we would be better off w/out the South.

[BeneteauBum]

6. Please don't isolate me! 😊

Peace ☮️

[yellow dahlia]

7. Good point. There are good people below the M-D line.

I am glad to see so many voices standing up in Tennessee and elsewhere.

[relogic]

4. That Confederacy

rose out of the white, European entitlement spawned from colonialism. The founders and our grand experiment was blemished, rotten and riddled with racism, not so easily detected or unveiled fully in those 60 -70 years since that founding. Then, the same ugliness we see now of white entitlement came to a head. A civil war, indeed.

We must punish ourselves today as we must the well-meaning carpenters of independence, though their horror at what they’ve seen created must be enough.

[Dave Id]

5. I've said for years the confederacy didn't lose

they just retreated, then spread their toxic racism throughout the country.

[Exp]

8. Ya think?!?!?!