• zikzak025@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Southern US states love having monuments of Confederate leaders, justified as necessary to remember their history or heritage or some other thinly-veiled excuse for racism.

      Relative to population, southern US states also experienced a disproportionate number of COVID fatalities due to vaccine denialism and a poor public response to the pandemic.

      The meme is basically just commenting on the fact that the south wants to have monuments commemorating this 4-year war that was terrible because it’s “history”, but the south would never put up monuments for this other terrible event important to history because the current politic there is to pretend that it was all a hoax or not a big deal.

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        8 days ago

        ok thanks for the nice summary, didn’t realize this meant the southern USA and not the global south

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          That was sort of my first read and I thought: “that meme is kinda fucked up.”

          It’s honestly still kind of fucked up if you know how the South handled the corona virus and the disproportionate mortality rates, but the US South is kinda fucked up too.

          Laugh or cry, idk it’s probably cope, but it’s how we keep going.