• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    15 days ago

    Does nobody else ever get slightly uncomfortable with “traitor” rhetoric? Like it’s hip to call the Confederacy traitors but when it comes to describing their crimes, why do we default to the one that involves being on the wrong side of a power structure? That doesn’t really seem like the worse thing most traitors do.

    • pimento64@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      15 days ago

      Being a traitor to a creed is the worst form of treason because you’re directly betraying an idea instead of its representative.

    • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Many Lost Causer twits claim to be ‘loyal’ American patriots in the modern day. Calling them traitors emphasizes that they have no loyalty to the polity they claim to be patriots of - their only loyalty is to racism and bigotry.