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Jim Jefferies Hears ‘Both Sides’ of the Confederate Monument Battle in Georgia

Jim Jefferies Hears 'Both Sides' of the Confederate Monument Battle in Georgia

Jim Jefferies Hears 'Both Sides' of the Confederate Monument Battle in Georgia

Comedian Jim Jefferies visits Georgia to explore the debate over Confederate monuments and the legacy of the Civil War. There are no lawn parties and mint juleps on offer as Jim talks with southerners who are embroiled in a battle to save Civil War monuments, including Stone Mountain, where carved Confederate generals put on a festive light show each evening.

One hundred and fifty years later, the real battle is a ‘war between the facts.’ While he touches base with a representative of the NAACP for historical reality, Jim encounters men who are still celebrating a lost war, slavery and treason. Within a massive alternative fact cloud, Abraham Lincoln is ‘a war criminal’ and slavery was ‘a moot point’ in the War Between the States. Enter at your own risk, forget lighting Stone Mountain; the real show is the fact-bending performed by devotees of the lost cause.