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        1. A “militarization of politics” by white “rifle clubs” helped overturn radical Reconstruction in the first place. storify.com/wcaleb/reconstruction-history-and-open-carry-today @peterwsinger/898355065924276229
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        In other words, CSA monuments wouldn’t have spread in early 20c were it not for armed white groups in late 19c attacking black Southerners.
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      Racist violence begat the political order of whites-only rule that made the statues possible, but the rifles never went away.
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    In a way, then, the statues have always depended on violence, overt or threatened, or indifference. When challenged, the rifles return.
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      Today, as in Reconstruction, the rifle clubs will say it is they who are threatened, by “Negro rule,” scalawags, the epithet du jure.
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        They will call themselves a “Freedom Force” instead of a “White League.” “MAGA” instead of “The Union As It Was.” Don’t be deceived.
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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