Originally published at: Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Black people to be "proud" of statues of their treasonous enslavers | Boing Boing
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Traitors gonna treason.
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Because I’d say Look how far I have come in this country. Look how far my people have what they have overcome.
Oh, great. You can be a better Black person by participating in the Existence Olympics. 
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But you can be the BEST Black person by being a privileged, history-averse white woman speaking for an entire demographic you have no connection to! Who knew?
(HUGE /S)
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She’s babbling quite a bit today about Biden in Ukraine and releasing video from the Capitol riots to Tucker but there was also this.
She’s in top wackadoodle form today.
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Or, as Empty Gee would put it, “Traitors gonna trait.”
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I don’t think it’s possible for someone to behave more horribly (while remaining within the bounds of legality) if one tried.
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Says a person who never learned from history. Probably failed math too.
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she is so proud of that history she wants to repeat it
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Not so sure she failed meth.
ohh, math, nm.
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Am I having deja vu? I am sure that I have read this same tweet months ago.
Is EmptyBot malfunctioning?
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But she and her sort are perfectly happy to ignore our most famous statue telling us to “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”.
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Well, in fairness she’s not telling them to be proud of the statues, but to be proud of themselves. Which is a little different.
There’s still all kinds of things wrong with her tone-deaf suggestion, but it’s a different kind of wrong and the BB headline misses the mark slightly.
The closest analogy I can think of to MTG’s suggestion would be if you hung framed pictures of everyone who was an asshole to you in high school on your bedroom wall. There’s a reason why no sane person does such a thing.
Also her “learn from history” homily rings a little false when all her colleagues are falling over themselves to ban the parts of history that they don’t like. “Learn from history – no, no, not that history! This history. Which we wrote to make ourselves look good.”
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I have an idea I think EmptyG can get behind. Let’s create a new statue of Robert E Lee. He’s hanging his head in shame with his hands tied behind his back, while two soldiers from the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment stand pointing bayonets at him.*
A beautiful celebration of history and “culture.” I’m sure she’ll sponsor a bill to get Federal funding for it.
(*Not intended to be 100% historically accurate.)
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Alternatively, we could put a Sherman’s Necktie in the middle of every town and city in the South to remind Confederate cosplayers what happens when they fuck around.
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Since the modern GOP, unlike their confederate ancestors, don’t understand the value of well maintained and functional infrastructure I think the point would be lost on them.
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By her own logic she should be extremely proud to see the empty pedestals where those statues used to stand.
Look how far we’ve come.
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