But what about the men!!!???

Nah, dude. You’re conflating folk rightly taking people to task for having bad, even loathsome opinions and trolls engaging in mass harassment campaigns. GTFO with that.

Not likable? Are you kidding me?

If you haven’t seen this already, you’re gonna love it.

Furthermore, erasure is what happens to people of color and women in the history books. So when people think white men are great and built our civilization and that’s just biology/how it is/etc, it’s because the contributions of others have been thoroughly erased.

‘The irony for me is that the white men who have discriminated against others and benefited the most from white supremacy are now crying that they are being discriminated against.’

Also, during the Civil Rights movement, the Confederate flags got a second wind as well. Always reactionary BS after black folks assert their rights

And that’s why I laughed my ass off when someone “vandalized” the memorial in Arizona with “2nd place” signs. Because it’s true!

The idea of American Exceptionalism, that we can and have done no wrong, is probably the thing that will end up destroying this country. We can’t fix problems if we refuse to face or even acknowledge them.

And the cry of “erasure” also assumes a default position that such Confederate statues and individuals deserve to be honored. When did we vote on that? I missed that election. The truth is that the Daughters of the Confederacy spent the decades after the Civil War paying to put up statues anywhere dumb enough to…

Under his eye, Ofgizmodo.