[TheSteelBrigade]

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Originally Posted by captain mal

Cross Country - the first casualty in GIJoe of Cancel Culture? How dumb. We can have maniacs, murderers, thugs, assassins, terrorists. But oh no! A Southerner! Get him!

Well, they don?t make Nazi Troopers either (Toht, yes, but he has no Nazi iconography). I know American Mythology teaches us that the Confederacy was some lost noble cause but to some of us, that iconography is evil. The same Southern writers and historians who once owned slaves whitewashed the confederacy to the point that a lot of Americans don?t even believe that slavery was the one and only cause of the war. For years you had people believing Gone With the Wind was a reasonable accurate depiction of the antebellum south, with happy slaves and evil marauding Union Soldiers. 90% of the old westerns featured a heroic ex-confederate.

The funny thing is, the confederate flag made a huge resurgence in 1918 after the film BIRTH OF A NATION depicted heroic Klansman, leading to a resurgence in the Klan and again during the Civil Rights movement as an instrument of counter protest (that?s when the flag began to fly over southern state houses).

The Confederacy was evil, The Confederacy is not synonymous with southern culture and and that traitorous imagery has no place in GI JOE.