"Remember back in 2017, when the entire Right Wing Propaganda Machine suddenly decided "
Needs moar rooshians
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is the big-in-the-80s former Celebrity Apprentice host entertainer-turned-Republican-politician with a troubling history of sexual assault allegations who DOESN’T think Nazis are very fine people.
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Of course the people who gleefully bashed Antifa as fascists and terrorists 2 years ago will not see this retraction and will only remember that Antifa tried to blow up real Muricans. You don’t need a real enemy when you can make up a fake one.
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ZOMG!!!eleventy-one!!!
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I dunno why they think antifa would object to their civil war reinactment. If they want to cover themselves in ash and sackcloth while repeating their defeat by the Union over and over again, I say go right ahead.
In fact, I’m willing to bet antifa would even join their play date and escort the defeated confederates to a make shift military jail or mortuary. Cheer up, confederate buttercup, your ancestors lost the war and died over a century ago!
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The document does not say which side Drake fought for during the reenactments, but email addresses for Drake listed in public records include variations on the word “confederate.”
Does it matter whether of not Drake favored the “confederate” side?
Kind of off-topic, but I have a feeling the vast majority of these reenactors are conservative. I mean, “preserving heritage” and fondly looking backwards is the conservatives’ driving force. I’m willing to bet a lot of them take the Union side just so that the Confederate side has someone to play with.
What I’m trying to get at is that: even if he is representing the Union, that doesn’t mean his head is necessarily screwed on right.
Yes it matters. I’ve known a few reenactors who are actually involved because of a fascination with the material stuff of history, including some who do antiracist and antifascist organizing. They tend to be the people for whom Civil War reenacting is only one of their quirky history obsessions. People who choose to identify with the confederacy, both in their reenactment and outside of it tend to be people who are in it for the racism.
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The preferred term is ‘Confedishist’, though it works better when spoken aloud.
Can concur. I know quite a few of them. A good heuristic is if they do multiple interpretations (either different eras, or roles other than soldier), they are likely history geeks. But I have yet to come across a reenactor who does Civil War exclusively that isn’t, well, just fucking deplorable.
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My high school AP History & AP Government teacher was a re-enactor, and even on the Confederate side. He was not a conservative; if anything, based on what I could pick up from how he taught both subjects, he was a subtle socialist. Oh, and he was also a teacher union rep.
His connection was that an ancestor was a Lt. in the Tennessee militia, so he did his re-enacting as his great-great-granddad; name, rank, and all.
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Remember how big of a threat “Anonymous” was?..
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My parents were both in this guy’s Antifa gang when he ordered the gang, again and again, to go slaughter and kidnap tens of thousands of violent fascists - which they did. He was one of the most serious Antifa activists ever. He and the gang were in the news every day for years, but a lot of people seem to have forgotten those fights now.
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So, a guy who is obsessed by the bunch of losers who fired on Fort Sumter then cried “northern aggression” makes up a persecution fantasy?
Colour me unsurprised.
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I appreciate his contribution, but I’d reserve that title for these people who were antifa before it was cool and suffered the consequences.
(this list could go on for a while, so I’ll finish it here.)
Some of us fight for a country, some of us fight to survive another day and some of us fight because it is the right thing to do. As long as we fight together it doesn’t matter.
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Whose parents literally were Nazis. People who served Hitler during WWII
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“Broken men who came home filled with shrapnel and shame and who are now burning in hell” is one of the best firsthand descriptions of Nazis I’ve ever heard.
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Of course those people were early anti-fascists, and did important work. U.S. Republicans, though, do not honor them.
Eisenhower, who later became a Republican President, was the Supreme Commander of all the forces of Europe in the successful push against Nazi Germany, and is much, much more difficult for U.S. Republicans and white supremacists to ignore or denigrate. The whole country (except for some millionaires and other right-wing asshholes) were anti-fascist during WW II - we need to frequently remind Republicans of what the country was fighting for then, and what the country was fighting against then.
Being anti-fascist is an old American tradition, not a fringe ideology.
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Regrettably, that is not the case.
The USA has always had a substantial anti-fascist faction. But they also had an equally substantial faction supporting the other side.
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