Here’s the thing though. These people actually do believe slavery had positives.

The white supremacist mindset continues to hold that slave labor was necessary to build the economy and that people of color require paternalistic direction lest they destroy the world. https://twitter.com/LaDemos/status/1387129763035242504

When people talk about “protect our culture and heritage,” they’re talking about perpetuating a myth that white supremacy was necessary and the cruelty, slavery, and oppression was required to build the modern world.

This is why the Right demands fealty and worship of the Founders, a mythological history that deifies America, and a well-funded law enforcement over education.

Maintaining the alternate reality where white supremacy and oppression of people of color is of the utmost importance.

When they say “the good slavery,” they mean “Look around. This world was built on it.”

That mindset requires us to excuse slavery and oppression and violence as means to an end and demands that we not imagine another world that is fairer and more human.