President Donald Trump is more overtly leaning into some of the spoils of his office in his second term, drawing comparisons to French Queen Marie Antoinette from political opponents.
The number of “rednecks”, “southerners”, “hillbillies” etc that don’t know about the Battle of Blair Mountain and what it was over… just sad. For a culture that loves to talk about their “heritage” they sure seem to be oblivious to a lot of it.
Putting “thin blue line” stickers on their trucks and insulting unions and union workers…
The education in those places is a huge part of the problem. They have probably never heard the ideas of these uprisings and massacres, and they were never taught to be intellectually curious enough to look into it themselves. It might’ve had a paragraph in the textbook about “labor rights” movement.
Gotta remember that the textbooks for basically the entire US are determined by an extremely conservative group based in Texas.
The number of “rednecks”, “southerners”, “hillbillies” etc that don’t know about the Battle of Blair Mountain and what it was over… just sad. For a culture that loves to talk about their “heritage” they sure seem to be oblivious to a lot of it.
Putting “thin blue line” stickers on their trucks and insulting unions and union workers…
Hence why I loathe my kinfolk so much. Bunch of fucken disgraces to our forefathers.
They just love their “culture” of owning other humans. That’s literally it.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug
The education in those places is a huge part of the problem. They have probably never heard the ideas of these uprisings and massacres, and they were never taught to be intellectually curious enough to look into it themselves. It might’ve had a paragraph in the textbook about “labor rights” movement.
Gotta remember that the textbooks for basically the entire US are determined by an extremely conservative group based in Texas.