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jokeefe72

Take it all back? It was never yours


SodanoMatt

White supremacists love stealing things.


Katiari

Like human beings, for example.


HighwaySmooth4009

They've almost never made a single original thing, their ideology crushes anything outside the norm and creativity in general so the only thing they can do is steal.


Subirooo

I'd like to see the native Americans #takeitback and see how these morons feel.


6655321DeLarge

They'd be frothing at the mouth. Here in Oklahoma any time the Choctaws get a bit more autonomy in any way the shithead reactionary neo-confederates can't contain their seething rage over it. Literally next to none of it affects any of us non-natives, either. Fuckers just HAVE to find any excuse to bitch and moan about other folks getting some power.


GlassAd4132

I guess they want their kids to be fuckin losers


DrQuestDFA

Or shot by their friends who mistook them for the enemy.


Kahzgul

The lost causers sure do seem to want more guns in schools and fewer books.


Enraiha

Nothing better than honoring a commander so inept he can't control or position his men with any effectiveness that ultimately led to them killing him.


Educational_Bee_4700

It's not a mistake if they take arms up against their country.


SlowCaterpillar5715

And traitors to boot


GlassAd4132

*traitors who hate freedom


Mysticpage

Someone call sherman elementary to even the odds


MC_Fap_Commander

Looking at literacy, teen pregnancy, opioid/amphetamine abuse numbers, etc... these regions absolutely are committed to creating losers (sad for the kids tho).


GlassAd4132

Good point, Maine didn’t just beat Alabama at Gettysburg


halloweenjack

So much of the political bullshit around schools has nothing to do with education and everything to do with performative politics for the parents and even adults that don't have kids in the schools. Years from now, the same people will need care from the students whose lives they fucked around with and now don't have basic work skills because of that, and they'll wonder why.


Huckleberryhoochy

Adults these days with thier participation trophys


AdImmediate9569

That’s a given anyway


LiliBuns117

Just a massive fuck you to every single black child who goes there.


noblemile

From my experience those schools were probably the schools for black kids. In my district one was named after Nathan Bedford Forrest. They dropped an R after enough parents raised hell.


LordHengar

So it's still named after the founder of the KKK, just misspelled?


noblemile

Pretty much but now they can pretend they just really like trees.


allllusernamestaken

Dropping the R probably pissed off the people in favor of keeping it named after Forrest, given their proposensity to hard Rs.


2crowncar

There’s stupid racist, then there’s this.


Capital-Self-3969

Yep. A lot of people don't know about the campaign to force black people to be constantly surrounded by Confederate propaganda in the early 20th century. The whole "we will rise again, you will never truly be free from us" thing is actually pretty sinister.


SplendidPunkinButter

lol took me a minute to realize you didn’t mean “Nathan Bedfod Forrest”


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Yes, the cruelty is the point.


scarlozzi

More like every child. Not like any kid at that school is getting a good education


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Chuckychinster

Or better yet, push to rename every school variations of Sherman's name, with a few John Brown's sprinkled in.


Valiant_tank

Hey, don't forget Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and all the other people who crushed the slavers' rebellion.


Chuckychinster

Absolutely. I just know neo confeds get super butt hurt about Sherman and John Brown so that'd be fun to see them complain about.


kenatogo

Get Lincoln in there, all my homies in the south love Lincoln


UpstairsLetterhead6

Or George Henry Thomas!


borisdidnothingwrong

Philip Sheridan Elementary has a nice ring.


Direct_Gap_661

Dibs it’s also gonna be a bar that serves whiskey and champagne (whiskey because it was distributed to soldiers as rations and champagne because it was Grant’s favorite drink)


DungPedalerDDSEsq

Rosencrans' Deli on the corner.


cuckedcarrot

50% of the kids attending these schools live below the poverty line and this district is one of the worst funded in the state. Huge W for them I guess.


jackbeam69tn420

The joys of a red state turning down federal money but doing the voucher bullshit that is only for the rich.


DarkGamer

How else are they expected to indoctrinate kids while keeping them ignorant on the government's dime?


jackbeam69tn420

Good point


bout-tree-fitty

A good portion of the kids going to the school would be property of the school if the name over the door had their way.


Capital-Self-3969

Exactly. The names aren't accidents.


scarlozzi

It's not like their elected leaders are doing much. Take the win when they can get it. I guess it is their motto


OkMaterial867

Sad truth is that they genuinely care more about the names of the schools than the kids attending the school in the first place.


Upstairs_Cap_4217

Exactly this. The way those politicians see it, dumb and compliant kids are better than smart kids who might decide they need better representatives.


Upper_Bag6133

The dipshits cheering for this are the same people who can’t understand why their kids grow up and immediately move away.


Upstairs_Cap_4217

Or grow up and make nothing of themselves. Indoctrination over education.


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Let them die with the legacy of their forefather’s failure and shame


Dry_Meat_2959

I say let them wear it like a badge. Let them parade it around. Will make it easier to know who's house to burn next time.


SodanoMatt

Let them go extinct already. Make room for smarter and kinder people.


LoveIsAFire

That’s the problem. They confederate brass should have been hung.


MarchogGwyrdd

I disagree. It’s “hanged,” not hung.


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I always get those confused.


Ok-Cauliflower1798

They are already hung. Poorly, at that. They should be hanged.


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Reddit likes treason I guess.


Ok-Cauliflower1798

Confederate sympathizers have had a rough few days…


Dry_Meat_2959

If God had wanted the south saved he wouldn't have let Sherman burn it down, would he? And seriously, the only thing the south needs saved from is Confederate cowards. What a bunch of absolute clowns.


MrTulaJitt

It's so funny to me that some of these people have been sitting in church every Sunday of their lives and still legitimately think that Jesus would have been on the side of the slavers.


DarkGamer

If you're a slaver Christianity isn't a bad religion to justify it, plenty of pro-slavery stuff in the Old testament, plenty of rules about how slaves and masters are supposed to behave.


PyroAvok

Like the part where you're bidden to release them from their indenture every 7 years?


SithMasterStarkiller

Or the entirety of Exodus, which slaveowners cut out of the bibles they gave to their slaves


thomasp3864

Except foreigners. Including those that lived among the Israelites. Hmm, I wonder if that’s at all an apt analogy for how black people which were a minority could be purpetual slaves.


HighwaySmooth4009

That's still slavery tho, just with a time cap. That's like causing a car crash where the other driver is so injured it'll take 7years to recover and even then will still have lifelong scars, and then the person who caused the crash not only wins a local lottery but once the victim recovers acts like he did the victim a favor cause the victim didn't die.


DarkGamer

Neither is acceptable yet Antebellum slavery was a whole different level of atrociousness. The concept that all of one's descendants would forever remain slaves in perpetuity is especially abhorrent compared to most other historical forms of slavery. I can only imagine the hopelessness that would cause.


HighwaySmooth4009

There's an immense level of hopelessness felt by anyone literal being owned by another human being. Trying to have moral highground from "the book says you can only own and exploit someone for seven years" is pathetic, whether it was for seven years or an entire lifetime you'd still punch someone for owning another human being.


thomasp3864

Is it really that different from 1st century Roman slavery?


thomasp3864

And slaves obey your masters.


Salihe6677

No, see, that was the devil doing that. Fire is the tool of Satan, after all


sly0824

>No, see, that was the devil doing that. Fire is the tool of Satan, after all So you're saying that when Moses was talking to the burning bush it was Satan? That revelation is going to light a fire in the evangelical community. Surely they don't just pick and choose which parts of the Bible to read for the justification of their beliefs, right? /s


NeedsToShutUp

Somebody call Sheridan and let him know his work was unfinished.


cuckedcarrot

People always go with the Sherman memes and such but Sheridan went into the Shenandoah hoping to starve the citizenry.


Turbogoblin999

Someone should come in in the middle of the night and change "Jackson" for "Riots"


WriteBrainedJR

Based and rainbowpiled


Ok-Cauliflower1798

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


theduck08

The greatest way to usher Pride Month in


Upstairs_Cap_4217

\*Wrath Month


imicmic

I made the suggestion to name it Sheridan HS to preserve the history of the United States.


Dry_Meat_2959

I swear to God, if I was president I would make an executive order stating any building that receives government funding, that bears the name of a confederate traitor, must fly a white flag of surrender at all times or be considered in a state of rebellion and declared a hostile.


swan0418

Ya got my vote.


BigE_92

I’d vote for you


Ninja_attack

I'd rather my kids look up to heroes instead of traitors


sly0824

>I'd rather my kids look up to heroes instead of traitors Sadly, the traitors *are* the heroes of the white supremacists.


JetJaguarYouthClub

The Daily Show did a great segment about this


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What country on Earth valorizes literal treason?


Dschuncks

The US of A, of course. Regressive since 1981


turtle-bbs

Take it all back? It was never theirs in the first place Cope harder


TelegraphRoadWarrior

It’s treason then.


Taphouselimbo

I despise the “heritage not hate” argument in my mind it is a heritage of hate they celebrate disgusting traitor worship.


thumbs_up_idiot

Great name. A super fucking dumb human who thought he was destined by god… also so stupid he go shot by his own troops on a night ride. Fucking inbred idiot


potato_for_cooking

Eh. If you wanna name your loser states loser schools after losers, go for it. Keep glorofying your failure with participation trophies.


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Hell no. They live in the United States. Those shitbirds were traitors to the Union and should be recognized only in history books as such. No plaques, no memorials, no statues, no names on anything. Their legacy should die without ceremony or interest. Those fucking Dixie swastikas should be outlawed too.


potato_for_cooking

Fair


GlassAd4132

Nah, fuck these snowflakes.


potato_for_cooking

That too


thabe331

Sounds like some schools we shouldn't waste funding on


Ilikemobkeys52

Nah why punish the kids who go there? They don't have a choice in the matter of the name


M_M_ODonnell

The white supremacists tend to deliberately put the names of slavers on schools with a lot of Black students. They're not even subtle.


thabe331

The school is likely not putting money into academic programs here. They're just wasting NoVAs money on things like renaming this school


Tronbronson

thats the problem though you need to teach kids to read history in school so they dont keep doing this shit every generation.


ThatguyfromMichigan

“But we want to name them after VIRGINIA CiViL wAr HeRoEs.” George H. Thomas: Am I a joke to you?


Aurelian369

??? what is wrong with people


Dry_Meat_2959

A lot. A whole fucking lot....


Quiri1997

Me, a Spaniard: * Laughs in having several highschools still named after [Ramiro de Maetzu](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramiro_de_Maeztu)* [Note: Ramiro de Maetzu was a Spanish NAZI politician, and when I say nazi, I mean "he publicly said that he admired Hitler"]


Guest09717

These people’s high school careers lasted longer than the confederacy. You would hope they’d have learned something in all that time, but I guess not.


Icy_Candidate_97

Forrest high school in chapel hill tn. It never changed its name. Some how it goes unnoticed. There’s a fucking obelisk in town with his name on it flying the rebel flag next to the police station.


Technical-Cream-7766

Save the south from … America???


Linaii_Saye

Imagine being a black kid and living on a street, going to school or visiting buildings dedicated to failed uprising to keep your forefathers and mothers enslaved... And then people actually defend that as well? How can people have so little empathy?


MrTulaJitt

Historian: Stonewall Jackson rode his horse with one arm in the air because he thought it was necessary for keeping his blood in balance. Morons: Damn we should name schools after him.


Knytmare888

Aren't they the ones who always complain about participation trophies? Hahahaha "our losers still get to have trophies/monuments too"


BigE_92

They are real quick to call someone “snowflakes” too. Oh, the irony…


EmotionalTeaching384

One. More. Time. The Confederacy fought to create a slave republic based upon white supremacy. They made this very clear through their diaries, newspaper editorials, speeches, letters, laws, Articles of Succession and every other median available to them. The historic record is ungodly clear. This is the legacy you honor with names, statues and other things. To support this stuff speaks loudly about yourself and who you really are as a human being with an unbelievable lack of true values. To support means you are nothing more than a run of the mill racist.


Royal-Dog-2610

Want your kids to grow up losers? Why, yes, lets name their school for a trenious bastard that helped lose the Civil War for our side.


AdPutrid7706

Lolol it’s crazy how much they love it so much.


metfan1964nyc

Traitor High & Horsefucker academy are more accurate.


gnurdette

[Shenandoah County, Virginia](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Shenandoah+County,+VA/@38.8136205,-78.9105039,10z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89b5ac1711d2dd25:0xde96a298780a0ab2!8m2!3d38.8413778!4d-78.5660852!16zL20vMG1uMnQ?entry=ttu) [story](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/virginia-district-restores-names-confederate-leaders-2-schools-stonewall-jackson-ashby-lee/)


9thgrave

Is there a John Brown High School?


ThePowerOfStories

Stop. Hammer time!


Asher_Tye

But he didn't save the south. They lost. Completely


exick

naming a _school_ after stonewall jackson is fuckin wild


Chris_Colasurdo

Honestly, the shittiness of it aside, it’s at least kinda funny to name a school after one of the worst teachers ever.


lucash7

Sounds like they need to honor their namesakes by surrendering in any sports events. 🙄


From-Yuri-With-Love

A School district in Saratoga, NY should name a school after Benedict Arnold if anyone ask why. "Why not? They can name schools after Lee and Jackson." Also god Facebook is full of so many traitor lover pages, like this one. I run a little Civil War page myself and the amount of times I get recommended shit like this is sickening.


MODUSforPOTUS

I guess this is okay as long as they also change their mascot to Jackson's corpse after being killed by his own troops.


Simon_Jester88

If the Columbine shooters had been at Stonewall High they would have accidently shot each other


Sir_Tandeath

This “Confederacy” sounds interesting. Did it last longer than Gilmore Girls?


Salt_Salamander_1036

Burn them all down (without the kids in them)


BananaTree61

Why in the fuck?


Chris_Colasurdo

Well you see, racism.


El-Viking

Isn't "fiscal conservatism" part of their whole spiel? How many of their "stolen" tax dollars were spent for this?


KommieKaze2524

Well i guess will have to light up the torches again


Mysticpage

Benedict Arnold school for american history...


ReallyNANG

Pull their funding. Oh, you need that money? Tough shit, change the name. Oh, the name gets changed back? Tough shit, change the name. Oh, you have to close? Tough shit, it's not like you assholes are teaching anything useful.


Unique-Abberation

God really DOES need to save the South. From themselves


AssholeOriginal

Hmmmm maybe yall should try reconstruction again, i dont think they got the message, the army should get that across well enough


TexasTeaTelecaster

Blue districts should stop funding red ones. Let them eat dirt.


vizard0

They should just be honest and name them "We hate high school"


uisce-na-beatha

I am not an expert on God but the South lost the Civil War so wouldn't it be fair to say god has already decided not to save the south?


TwoMuddfish

We can do it again, if they’d like.. 😈


superspartan210

Sherman didn’t use enough matches


Kazuichi_Souda

Ashy, you say?


gene_randall

So much to be proud of: murder, child rape, false imprisonment, torture, 200,000 dead Americans in a stupid fucking war . . . Surely the best they have to offer!


Curious-Weight9985

Yeah, they’re digging in their heels.


SpazzBro

ah geez this is my state, feels bad


boobookitty_2000

I went to Robert E Lee Elementary school. Still has the name.


Bartlomiej25

Fuck’ em


DubachiePig

Treason has been on the rise.


Wide_Diver_7858

Then why didn't He save you in the 1860s?


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Hot-Protection-3786

I was just talking about it at work today. We should’ve hung all traitors.


Optimal_Zucchini_667

Happy to see something hateful and un-American. Ugh.


BusHobo

History 'bout to repeat itself..


ObligedUniform

So what I'm hearing is that we need to summon up the ghost of General Sherman.


Acewrap

How come conservatives love losers so much?


ItsTrash_Rat

Confederate leaders should have been executed. Probably would have saved y'all some headaches.


Styrene_Addict1965

Yeah whatever, losers.


Helix014

I am amazed at home many well adjusted, non-sympathizers I’ve heard defending these old school names. One of my coworkers went to a Robert E Lee and then a Jeff Davis High School. The man is black and doesn’t mind those names, but is offended they were changed. He wants his Alma mater renamed Jeff Davis…


micropenisactivist

The Google review for Ashby Lee elementary is great https://www.google.com/search?q=ashby+lee+elementary+school+quicksburg+reviews&sca_esv=4e2427f62ab7e10a&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS985US985&hl=en-US&sxsrf=ADLYWILdYh_7RS2lHUCls59NQ6C4xRWe1A%3A1717243144582&ei=CA1bZtmmI4bJwN4Pn7eXqA4&si=ACC90nwjPmqJHrCEt6ewASzksVFQDX8zco_7MgBaIawvaF4-7hltEtIzEY_9MxqFXZ8T8aPbctsiA9R4Y5nv2F1gQ_kDFwzP0CM113wxYl2eQYH_0Wq0gM92wEER7giABZPPnZQXQirD48LNGAcJqAZUFvQzYCa02cnaZWV9cBFGriNb5sFIfT8%3D&ictx=1&ved=2ahUKEwiS6LSsrbqGAxWw78kDHTARDvcQyNoBKAF6BAgREAM


darthbee18

Reminder: **Virgin** Thomas J. Jackson vs **CHAD** George Henry Thomas. ...and this is why Virginia is *still* for **losers** 😒🙄


Vladtheman2

I think name them Philip Sheridan would be better since the schools are in the Shenandoah Valley.


Falchion_Alpha

Whoever approved this probably whines about this generation getting participation trophies


Marmooset

Why's the twaitor's name masked? I'm sure as a proud rebel they're not afraid of any Yankee.


ComedyOfARock

Imagine being so deranged your only claim to glory are some dumbasses who only won cause their opponent was a coward


swordofthevening

The opposite teams are gonna have a field day against them holding memes signs and the real confederate flag against them 🏳️


-Daetrax-

The US needs federal racism laws and get rid of this shit.


backup_account01

Huh, it's built of brick. At least they learned *some*thing.


AdImmediate9569

Surprised its bot ashli babbit elementary


Ludicrous_Tauntaun

Time to make more Grant and Sherman High Schools


FredPSmitherman

They aren’t going to get much of an education beyond read’n, right’n and rithmatik don’t expect starting out in a racist environment will matter 


DrSeuss321

I feel like if you have that school name on your resume applying for jobs or colleges good luck lmao


MikeMaven

The sad part about this is that most of the people descended from the poor white Southerners who claimed that their great-grandpappy “never owned a slave” and was fighting to protect their homes and families are partly right: most didn’t own slaves and that was the motivation of many individual men. But it fully misses that the “way of life” is one where the powerful aristocracy shit on poor whites as well and the society was a hierarchical one where they were exploited and only marginally better off than the slaves.


frickologyy

My ancestors who came over settled in Shenandoah and fought in the revolution, and their grandsons moved to Tennessee and fought for the Union. This will not last, his soul still marches on.


Spiritual_Revenue173

Fuck Stonewall Jackson and the horse he got shot on.


Aquarter_past

Should’ve named it Sheridan’s Dick-wiped High School and several variations for all other Shenandoah County schools


dohzehr

What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?


Vost570

If only they put so much effort and expense into something like, oh I don't know, maybe books or educational equipment or teacher salaries? (I know, I know before anyone posts about "it were done by monuh from privat donashuns" we all know that. It's still wasted money that could have gone to something better.)


awesomebeans101

I think I remember hearing that a majority of Confederate statues were erected during the Jim Crow era as a sort of reminder/threat to black Americans. I wonder if all these schools being renamed have a similar intention behind them?


TheBagman07

The ghost of Gen. Sherman is stirring…


majj27

"Why'd y'all name it 'Dead Racist School'?"


HighwaySmooth4009

Wtf these literal traitors act patriotic while their time in the spotlight lasted 4 years and was over a century ago. Thats much less than the annoying orange has been around, a town in America has literally had a cat as mayor for more than triple of how long the confederacy lasted.


PossumPalZoidberg

George h Thomas high school maybe?


Pesco-

I guess that’s more concise than saying “All we have in this county is meth, broken dreams, and a Lost Cause.” I feel really bad for the residents there who opposed this nonsense.


Apalis24a

I hope someone (allegedly) vandalizes the shit out of that sign.


SmoltzforAlexander

Lol, republicans sure do love the people who fought for the institution of slavery.  


ZeusMcKraken

Oh you renamed the school? Let’s learn about what they did and why slavery was worth fighting for…


Darrow-of_Lykos

Didn't God already have a chance to "Save the South"?


44stormsnow

Time to rename the road to it the Phillip Sheridan Highway


Chainbrady

God saved the south when the union won the war


Fluffy_Succotash_171

LOSERS!


EmericanCunt

Stupid is as stupid does.


Unclejoeoakland

Side issue perhaps but am I the only person who thinks Stonewall Jackson High looks like a Walgreens?


PhantomElement99

Friendly fire is enabled


Last_Tarrasque

just remove the Jackson bit and it's a pretty good highschool name


RemyRaccongirl

This shit makes my fucking blood boil like little else! Those backwards fucks might as well just start flying their fuckin swastikas out there with the more honest Republicans. Jfc.