@stephenjudkins @crookedfootball The "people" who are so unshy seem a lot shyer about the role of imperialist traditions in the death and immiseration of millions of people by a "war on terrorism" (that implicates me quite directly, I actively supported it). US liberals' take on the complicit US South strikes me as an example of motivated, self-exonerating reasoning, especially in light of the experience of Black migrations north and west.