Virginia strips tax breaks for organizations connected to the Confederacy

Huh? The Confederacy hasn't been a thing for 160ish years!!!!
But with bullshite like this, it's reasonable to predict a come back!

I call it the politics of spite because that's generally the reason they're doing it

Exactly!

Virtue signalling and hypocrisy! What they're best at.

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The Democrat Party also needs to lose their tax breaks due to their connection with the Confederacy

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And their on-going actions to keep blacks perpetually in poverty (except for the few 'step-n-fetchits' they put in the congresses.)

Democrats - started as racists - continue as the most racist organization in the country.

They have established their own 'new plantation' where they put their blacks to work cultivating election corruption.

Thank you LBJ = biggest racist of all time

Just one of many wake-up calls! But are they sleeping through them?!?!

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Do they even First Amendment, bro? You don't have to be a fan of the CSA. You can't be selective based on content.

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Exactly! Now they can target any organization they want and say it’s tied to the “confederacy”.

Let no one say we're not balanced.

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1 thread cheering the removal of public funds from catholic charities.

1 thread criticizing the removal of tax breaks from Confederacy organizations.

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And both rationalized on principles.

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Democrats - started as racists - continue as the most racist organization in the country.

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Grok:

This is the "party switch" debate, and it's one of the more contested historical arguments in American politics. Here's the honest breakdown:

The conservative argument:
The Democratic Party was historically the party of slavery, the Confederacy, Jim Crow laws, and opposition to civil rights legislation. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 explicitly as an anti-slavery party, and Lincoln was a Republican. They argue Democrats don't get to claim the moral high ground on race given that history.

The counterargument (the "party switch"):
Most historians argue the two parties essentially swapped their regional and ideological bases over the course of the 20th century — particularly between the 1930s and 1970s. The New Deal began pulling Black voters toward Democrats. Then LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a massive realignment — Southern white conservatives fled the Democratic Party and became Republicans, largely in response to those civil rights advances. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" was explicitly designed to capitalize on that backlash.

What makes it complicated:
The ideological labels stayed the same but the coalitions genuinely flipped
The conservative Democrats of 1860 (pro-slavery, states' rights) are the ideological ancestors of today's conservative Republicans, not today's Democrats
But it's also true that the Democratic Party held that history for a very long time before the switch

Why conservatives push it:
It's partly valid historical correction — Democrats did own that history for nearly a century. But it's also often deployed as a rhetorical deflection when race comes up in contemporary policy debates, which is where historians push back hardest. Pointing to 1860 doesn't really address arguments about present-day policy.
The academic consensus pretty firmly supports the realignment theory, but the conservative counterpoint that Democrats are too quick to bury their own history isn't entirely without merit either.