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William Sherman is not a hero or an icon to be admired 19th Century History (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I didn't know who William Sherman was till about a minute ago. If he did slaughter the buffalo, is it too late to hate him?

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    General Sherman was the general that led a Union army through the Confederacy during the US Civil War. The army burned a mile (~1.7 kilometers) wide path across several states.

    He hated slavery and slavers, and his actions to defeat the Confederacy made him a hero for the Union.

    With the current climate in the US, his actions during the Civil War have made him sort of a folk hero again.

    As this meme points out, he was, by no means, a good person. Just a tool of state violence who happened to be used to do something positive.

    It's like praising a hammer that built a house for orphans then finding out it was used to kill homeless persons.

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