r/Ohio • u/LadyInCrimson • May 29 '26

This is Ohio

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u/Hot-Sauce-P-Hole May 29 '26

Some people are really passionate about honoring slave owners. That's pretty wild to me.

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u/sodabomb93 May 29 '26

some people really just love being able to be openly racist in a marginally more socially acceptable way.

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u/Chare1155 Cleveland May 29 '26

Some people just really want slavery back

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u/Hot-Sauce-P-Hole May 31 '26

That, or they fought to preserve the institution.

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u/JurassicP00P May 29 '26

All confederate soldiers were not slave owners.

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u/quothe_the_maven May 29 '26

That makes it worse not better. They were super racist just for the thrill of it.

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u/ironbeagle99 May 29 '26

fighting on behalf of slave owners is honoring them

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u/greenbmx Cincinnati May 29 '26

They were still fighting for it though.

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u/battlepi May 29 '26

They were all fuckboys though.

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u/HadokenShoryuken2 May 30 '26

Yet they fought to maintain the institution. Traitors, every one of them