The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

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  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    Charles Lynch was a Virginia Quaker,[12]: 23ff  planter, and Patriot who headed a county court in Virginia which imprisoned Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War,

    read your own link… it wasn’t about murdering black people, originally….
    i’m not not saying it’s just cool to have a hangman’s noose t-shirt in america, given the rest of history. But america kinda had a thing with hanging all sorts of people.

    • jaaake@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      I did.

      The verb comes from the phrase Lynch Law, a term for a punishment without trial. Two Americans during this era are generally credited for coining the phrase: Charles Lynch (1736–1796) and William Lynch (1742–1820), both of whom lived in Virginia in the 1780s.

      The verb “to lynch”(like the city of Lynchburg) comes from the same family. Literally. Charles Lynch is older brother to John Lynch (abolitionist and founder of Lynchburg).