A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer was held in jail for more than a month this fall after police arrested him over a Facebook post of a meme related to the September assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Prosecutors eventually dropped the criminal charge brought against Larry Bushart, but his stint behind bars came to exemplify the country’s tense political and legal climate following the tragedy, when conservatives sought to stymie public discourse about the late controversial figure that it saw as objectionable.

Now, Bushart is suing over his incarceration.

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Our new government['s]…foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

    Saying the civil war was about states rights is like saying the Holocaust was completely legal.

    Both positions are factually correct, but it completely misses the inhuman and immoral pretexts that lead to those actions. The American civil war was about slavers trying to prolong their lifestyle of abusing other human beings regardless of what the laws of the country were. They saw that slavery was going away, and they responded by starting a war of secession.

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
      12·
      8 hours ago

      It was. Read a book, no one is saying they weren’t also racists or that they the state right they wanted preserved was property rights over people in interstate travel.

      positions are factually correct, but it completely misses the inhuman and immoral pretexts that lead to those actions.

      Duh, I went over that specifically and at length.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        8 hours ago

        I literally quoted Jefferson Davis a month into the Confederacy. You should go read a fucking history book. Racism and slavery was the foundation of the Confederacy, as stated by the people that started it. States rights is a bullshit excuse. The confederate states wanted to force non-slave states to return escaped slaves, despite them have the rights (specifically a state right) not to return human beings to slavers. Fuck off with this fake ass daughter of the Confederacy propaganda.

        • Madison420@lemmy.world
          12·
          7 hours ago

          And I quoted him before in the legislature and after the war both specifically referring to states rights.

          Racism and slavery was the foundation of the Confederacy, as stated by the people that started it.

          No shit?

          States rights is a bullshit excuse.

          That does not change it from being the framework for succession and their main complaint.

          The confederate states wanted to force non-slave states to return escaped slaves, despite them have the rights (specifically a state right) not to return human beings to slavers.

          Ah you mean they challenged state sovereignity which is… A state right!

          Fuck off with this fake ass daughter of the Confederacy propaganda.

          You just admitted it was fact, when I was taught in school they would specifically tell you it was not about states rights when in fact it was. The federal government did not intercede because of slavery they interceded because of state sovereignity.

          You fuckoff, as I recall you chose to interject yourself. Did you not?

          • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            5 hours ago

            Ah you mean they challenged state sovereignity which is… A state right!

            Exactly. The slave states didn’t care about states rights at all. All they cared about was keeping slaves. If the believed in what they were saying about states rights, they wouldn’t have tried to force non-slave states to turn over freed slaves. The entire “confederates wanted states rights” argument is bullshit. They used the states right excuse to uphold the practice of slavery, and completely ignored these rights when they were used against slavery.

            The Confederacy was about keeping slaves, and it was not about upholding the sovereignty of states. That was myth invented after the war was lost to whitewash the people who fought for the “right” to own and abuse human beings.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

            The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, also known as the Lost Cause Myth or simply as the Lost Cause,[1] is an American pseudohistorical[2][3] and historical negationist myth[4][5][6] that argues the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery

            You can keep arguing after this I guess, but from this point forward, you would be knowingly promoting and defending a racist slaver-apologizing fraudulent piece of revisionist history.

            • Madison420@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 hours ago

              I would love to see your evidence about that one. I’m quite sure free states cared very very much about state sovereignity hence their objections to shave owning states attempting to exert their authority in free states what with the war about it and all.

              They used the states right excuse to uphold the practice of slavery, and completely ignored these rights when they were used against slavery.

              No shit? I wonder if we went over this already? Oh yes, we did in fact already talk about this and simply disagreeing with the framework they chose to make their argument does not make it any less of a fact.

              That was myth invented after the war was lost to whitewash the people who fought for the “right” to own and abuse human beings.

              I already provided pre war evidence that directly refutes your feelings on the matter.

              This isn’t lost cause theory, it’s stating a series of facts you simply don’t agree with.

              I’m not promoting anything you buffoon, you’re simply trying to call me a racist because you can’t win the argument because the facts simply aren’t on your side.