The United Daughters of the Confederacy - Hate spreaders/bigots/builders of Confed. Monuments

[packman]

And getting a tax break on top of it. The UDC (United Daughters of Confederacy) romanticized the Civil War and was/is still a force is keeping alive all that was wrong with the Civil War.

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It’s helpful, in the midst of any conversation about this country’s Confederate monuments, to understand who put these things up, which also offers a clue as to why. In large part, the answer to the first question is the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a white Southern women’s “heritage” group founded in 1894. Starting 30 years after the Civil War, as historian Karen Cox notes in her 2003 book “Dixie’s Daughters,” “UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, where states’ rights and white supremacy remained intact.” In other words, when the Civil War gave them lemons, the UDC made lemonade. Horribly bitter, super racist lemonade.

Unbelievable - under the radar type organization on par with the KKK

https://www.alternet.org/here-are-7-things-united-daughters-confederacy-do-not-want-you-know-about-them

[hlthe2b]

1. Out of place in either century... they sponsor essay contests in elementary schools in the South,

(or at least they did in past years) and many teachers dutifully assign students to enter... I remember helping my friend's daughter with her essay on Stone Mountain. As I recall it wasn't anything to do with the confederacy, or at least her essay wasn't, but merely about the recreation available at the park. Still, she placed and "was awarded" a UDC medal embossed with Stone Mountain after attending the "awards" ceremony at a local UDC church/cemetary.

I'd forgotten this, but I'd bet they continue to do this.

[maxsolomon]

2. The nation is full of reprehensible non-profits dedicated to Regression

Not to mention tax-exempt scams like Scientology.

[magicarpet]

9. Spencer a white supremacists get his IRS nonprofit status returned

The National Policy Institute (NPI), a white supremacist think tank headed by Richard Bertrand Spencer, has just regained tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/10/04/richard-spencers-white-nationalist-institute-gets-back-its-tax-exempt-status-irs

[maxsolomon]

11. Revolting. The IRS caves to any bully - President Assclown included.

And the GOP refuses to properly fund it to keep things that way.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Don't forget the DAR.

[packman]

4. DAR? Daughters of the American Revolution?

Needs some background , are they on the same level as those Confed. witches? Realize they may be elite-thinking snobs about their heritage, but what harm did they do or are doing?

[Sneederbunk]

5. Think Marian Anderson.

[Archae]

6. The cartoonist "Herblock" used to slam the DAR quite often.

Weren't they obsessed with flag sizes or such, years back?

[Thomas Hurt]

7. Unfortunately, groups like this are supposedly meant to preserve history...

well at least the revisionist version. Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is one of those. Call themselves a group preserving history when they are conservative propagandists dressed up like scholars.

[kwassa]

10. A local Son of Confederate Veteran is married to a black woman ...

Figure that out.

He rides a motorcycle with a leather vest and this seal on the back:

[Thomas Hurt]

12. Not all members are fascists...

I guess I should clarify that I have not read one of their magazines in a few years. Last time I read one, the management and editorial staff of the magazine were clearly winger revisionists.

I could probably be a member since my Great x3 granddad's older brothers both died fighting for the confederacy. Never really interested me that much and particularly not after I read some of their work.

[donkeypoofed]

8. It's just racism with a pretty dress and pretty accent!

They're not fooling anybody. They're just another racist organization, one that can't let go of the past.

[area51]

13. This vox article had some nice info

How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history

[Blue_true]

14. They couldn't let daddy, brother, uncle, cousin be the traitors that they were. nt