Neo-Confederate’s GoFundMe Page To Save UT Statue From “ISIS Style Atrocities”

[JoethePleb]

A GoFundMe page comparing UT students to ISIS is trying to raise $50,000 for “Southern Heritage Legal Research.” The page was started by Kirk Lyons a UT alum and the attorney for Sons of the Confederate Veterans.

He is not racist, just tired of being treated like a second class citizen!

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/30883/neo-confederates-gofundme-page-to-save-ut-statues-from-isis-style-atrocities

[Fred Sanders]

1. Bums of the Confederate Vanquished, a registered hate group, are at it again? Legal beagle losers.

Bums still sore from the legal asskicking they received after their failed legal promotion of the Dixie Swastika on Texas vehicle plates?

That had to hurt.

"Neo-Confederacy has applied to groups including the United Daughters of the Confederacy of the 1920s and those resisting racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s. In its most recent iteration, neo-Confederacy is used by both proponents and critics to describe a belief system that has emerged since the early-1980s in publications like Southern Partisan, Chronicles, and Southern Mercury, and in organizations including the League of the South, the Council of Conservative Citizens and the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Overall, it is a reactionary conservative ideology that has made inroads into the Republican Party from the political right, and overlaps with the views of white nationalists and other more radical extremist groups."

http://www.theguardian.com/law/2015/jun/18/texas-license-plates-sons-of-confederate-veterans-flag-supreme-court


"The SCV, who have about 30,000 members nationwide, are male descendants of Confederate soldiers. Their chief of heritage operations, Ben Jones, is a former Georgia congressman who was Cooter Davenport in the Dukes of Hazzard."

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/neo-confederate

[packman]

2. Second class and seemingly proud of it

Kirk Lyons a UT alum and the attorney for Sons of the Confederate Veterans.

He is not racist, just tired of being treated like a second class citizen!

MAYBE, just maybe if he stopped being an asshole and stopped being an attorney for a racist group things would change for him. Is he so insensitive to realize that most people in America now view people who cling to racist organizations as "second class" . Come into the light Mr. Lyons and denounce the Sons/Daughters/ whatever of the confederacy and claim your first class citizenship.