Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account

Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by r00fus on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:52PM (#24899719)

Mostly correct - however, the period after the Civil War moved the country distinctly back towards the right. Chinese Exclusion Act, among others, would not have been considered mainstream in the early 1800s. This continued well into the 1900s - which is when all the confederate hero statues were built (mostly by private funding). Many are being removed now.

In this case it's possible the Overton Window may finally be shifting back leftward on race and history regarding the Civil War.

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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by core-questions on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:57PM (#24899775)

Good points. I'm not American so my history of that era is spread pretty thin.

> it's possible the Overton Window may finally be shifting back leftward on race and history regarding the Civil War.

I think that the 1965 Hart Cellar Immigration Act began a leftward push on that front that has not really experienced meaningful pushback at all beyond a few small groups publicly acknowledging the quietly-held discomfort of a very large segment of the population.

Confederate statues and the defense thereof are just one of many small ways in which White Americans have tried to retain some sense of identity as their culture is perhaps irrevocably changed beneath them. Some try to make it all about slavery, but if you actually read what the more erudite examples of these folks think it's much more nuanced than that.

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