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   Joe Ortiz (joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 08:53:56 JST Joe Ortiz

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   @tzimmer_history I would gladly subscribe if only you can get off Substack aka the Nazi bar.

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 08:53:57 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     A year ago, I wrote about the direct line from those who fought for their right to enslave others in the name of “freedom” to today’s reactionaries who insist they have a right to define the national story and American identity in a way that upholds discriminatory traditional hierarchies.

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 08:53:57 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     I also reflect on how the Right’s critique of Juneteenth and insistence on a white nationalist version of U.S. history compares to the German struggle to work through the Nazi past - and specifically the struggle to establish May 8, 1945 as a Day of Liberation rather than defeat.

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 08:53:57 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     You’ll find the recording of me reading the piece at the top of the post. You can just click on it and either play it on the web or in the Substack app, if you are using that. The voiceover hopefully makes the piece more easily accessible.

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     https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-right-has-a-problem-with

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 08:53:58 JST Thomas Zimmer

     Why the Right Has a Problem with Juneteenth
      
     This, from last year, certainly holds up: Today’s Republican Party is dominated by reactionaries who stand in the political, ideological, and spiritual tradition of the (neo-) Confederacy.
      
     With an added voiceover option:
      
     https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-right-has-a-problem-with