H. Nemesis Nyx
Jul 23, 2017 · 2 min read

I don’t like it.

I wonder anyway.

What will be the difference between this show and reality? What will be the REAL difference? Maybe slavery would continue to be only more overt?

Because in studying our history, what is easily seen is that the ‘North’ won the war, but the ‘South’ won reconstruction. Therefore, slavery never did end anyway. So I am confused by why we need a show like this, unless they are trying to sensationalize an already truly terrible reality.

Since we are already used to the Confederacy in charge covertly, maybe the ‘imagined’ alternative history would simply be a more emboldened and in-your-face oppression?

How could they do something that is a real alternate history? They could make a show wherein the Confederacy and all ideals held were appropriately demolished, and never held sway again after the war was over.

They are lying to themselves by holding this up as an alternative history. There’s nothing alternative about it.

The 13th amendment legalizes slavery in certain circumstances, miscegenation, Jim Crow, et al, can someone please explain to me how the Confederacy winning the civil war would have altered our history in drastic terms? The reconstruction of our Union was done by the Confederacy. So in what way did they lose? How can anyone write or create a show like this without being informed by the actual history that seems to have flown straight over their heads?

What makes this horrible to me is that it ignores the reality we’ve lived with since the civil war by pretending the north won and demolished the ideals held by the south. It did no such thing.

Can’t write alternate history unless you know the actual history and I get the feeling these guys don’t know the first thing about it.

Like many other whites they believe the civil war end marked the end of slavery and they are completely oblivious to the covert abuse, racism and yes, slavery that has continued since reconstruction.

Fucking morons are going to get people killed.

H. Nemesis Nyx

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