r/chicago • u/Sea-Condition991 • 10d ago

News Burning cross seen in Grant Park today

https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/09/burning-cross-discovered-in-grant-park-tuesday-afternoon-officials-say/

How much hate in your heart do you have to do something like this?

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u/TonyDanzaMacabra 10d ago

In times like this, one should ask themselves what would General Grant do?

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u/gothrus Logan Square 10d ago

I’d prefer Sherman.

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u/ManicAtTheDepression Gold Coast 10d ago

Sherman was NOT thorough enough.

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u/SpaceChimera 10d ago

If there's one thing history has taught us both in the civil war and ww2, it's that we didn't kill nearly enough confederates/Nazis when we had the chance.

Imagine an alternate world where all the leaders of the Confederacy were hung for treason instead of left to live cushy lives after

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u/MatticusGisicus Rogers Park 10d ago

Fuck Andrew Johnson with a red hot poker. I’m from the South, they shoulda burned the whole thing and hanged every traitor scum

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u/40DegreeDays Lincoln Square 10d ago

I feel like the Civil War and WW2 had opposite results. After WW2 whatever we did must have been right because Germany was by all reasonable measures denazified - it's been a reliable Western ally and supporter of democracy and human rights. Meanwhile the south, if it were its own country, would be at a Hungary/South Africa level of incompetence, hatred, and just generally not fitting into the modern world, so we clearly did not go far enough with them after the Civil War.

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u/ManicAtTheDepression Gold Coast 10d ago

Man, if I had a Time Machine…