Post #1293382
2026-03-16 11:51 UTC
@Cheeseness @lritter Absolutely, capturing the mentality of someone who lost in a civil war, and has to keep living in their country.
But not capturing mentality of someone who is no longer allowed to keep slaves after fighting for the right to keep them.
That's the difference many people do not see - although I'm pretty sure you do.
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@Cheeseness@mastodon.social 2026-03-16 12:00
@ticho I do make that distinction for sure, but since the context that we're talking about is the revisionist "lost cause" mythology that (among other things) works to sanitise the confederacy by downplaying the pro-slavery stance, that still leaves Mal embodying the romanticised "lost cause" confederate soldier, who is honour bound and has a heart of gold and actually had the moral high ground, etc. @lritter