comment: >
  
  Argued with a guy on Reddit about this. I pointed out that fans of the Confederacy back Trump.
  He said those were actors and fakes trying to make Republicans look bad.
  I sent him a clip with former Grand Wizard of the KKK David Duke saying "I support Trump."
  He said Duke was a Democrat pulling a false flag operation to make Republicans and Trump look bad
  😕 
  So the open racists are being aided and abetted by the head-in-the-sand assholes
  To paraphrase someone else I saw on Reddit: if you are at a rally and there is a white supremacist there who isn't being kicked out, then you are at a white supremacist rally
context: So apparently, this cat has a very soft spot for Lost Cause theory (the idea of siding with slave owners due to how it defined everyone’s societal place and unified the ethnic masses) dating all the way back when he was a board school teacher.  
  Seeing him go with such zeal after Black studies seemingly out of nowhere is not surprising, what is is that he’s trying to make this among his first acts in the first months of his term. >
  
  Indeed.
  It's not that he dislikes historical revisionism
  He just wants HIS historical revisionism, i.e. Confederates were misunderstood heroes and straight, white, Christian men invented everything that has ever existed. >
  
  The worst thing about the Trump era is that it gave racists permission to be openly racist again. I don't have any allusions that there weren't racists earlier than that, but at least there was some shame involved with it and people kept it more on the down low. Now you can be elected governor of Florida (twice!) by being openly and proudly racist as if it is no big deal.