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Some thoughts about Confederate iconography (here comes Lacan)

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Some thoughts about Confederate iconography (here comes Lacan)

Jun 23, 2015
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Some thoughts about Confederate iconography (here comes Lacan)

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When I was a child it was absolutely unthinkable that southern states would ever distance themselves from the iconography of the Confederacy. The apologetics were always articulated with rhetoric about heritage and free speech, but it’s perfectly obvious what the controversies were really about: they were proxy relitigations of the Civil War. The revanc…

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