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Do Some US States Observe 'Confederate Memorial Day'?


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In mid-May 2021, Snopes became aware of numerous online searches to determine whether laws in some U.S. states designate a legal holiday to honor the Confederacy or Confederate soldiers who fought during the Civil War.
When we looked into the matter, we found that this is true.
As of spring 2021, official calendars for a handful of states still memorialize the 11 Southern states that temporarily seceded from the U.S. to try to maintain slavery, or the some 290,000 Confederate troops who died fighting the failed separationists’ cause.
The state-sanctioned holidays, which occur annually throughout January and June, spur events ranging from ceremonies to place flags and wreaths on Confederate soldiers’ graves to re-enactments of Civil War battles. ....

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GOP Politicians Have Repeatedly Been Bamboozled by Satire. Are We One Onion Article Away From Total Chaos?


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A Senate confirmation hearing for Kristen Clarke President Biden’s pick to head the Department of Justice’s civil rights division included an interrogation from Republican Senator John Cornyn. During Clarke’s questioning, the Texas senator asked whether she really believed “African Americans were genetically superior to caucasians.” The “belief” he was questioning: a satirical op-ed Clarke had written for a college newspaper while she was at Harvard. Clarke’s piece aimed to criticize 
The Bell Curve Theory, which argues that racial genetic differences cause lower IQ scores in Black individuals. Clarke told Cornyn that her column was intended to “hold up a mirror – put one racist theory alongside another, to challenge people as to why we were unwilling to wholly reject the racist theory that defined the Bell Curve book.” ....

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