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The south said 'it's about slavery' as often and as clearly as possible.
People saying 'it wasn't about slavery' are entirely wrong. Regardless of what Lincoln said. Pounding the table about what Lincon said is a misleading horseshit argument regardless of whether its claims are factual. It's not fucking relevant. The issue is: the south started a war, and they started that war over slavery.
Yes slavery was certainly part of it and if you can point to where I said it's not about slavery I'd love to see it.
It seems to me you and a few others here have seen what you wanted in my comments rather than what was actually said.
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Ok, point to where I said it was not about slavery I will wait sir.
That is the norths perspective as written by contemporaries like uhh Lincoln who I quoted. Cool, it doesn't make sense.
Idiot on Facebook: "The sun goes around the Earth!"
You: "Well he's not entirely wrong, because bodies orbit the centroid between blah blah blah--"
One hundred people of varying politeness: "That's not what he meant and you fucking know it."
You: "Well here's a really smart guy talking about centroids--"
Ten exasperated follow-ons: "That's not what he meant, and you fucking know it."
You: "Point to where I agreed with anything he said."
A few diehard troll-hunters: "Where you said 'he's not entirely wrong.'"
You: "... yeah but what do words really mean, anyway?"
Stop talking.
"Part?" No.
It's ABOUT slavery. Slavery was the entire root cause.
The south started a war.
The war was over slavery.
This submission is an idiot saying "the civil war wasn't about slavery," and you saying "they're not entirely wrong." They are, though. They really fucking are. If your denial of that fact is plainly not rooted in ignorance, what the fuck are you doing?
You need to develop a response to criticism besides doubling down and scrambling for some way to avoid saying "whoops."
Yes part.
It was about trade played out through slavery sure.
Correct.
Correct.
Incorrect, they aren't entirely wrong they're not entirely right either. Please quote any part you feel is a "denial of fact" my suspicion is like everyone else you've jumped on board without reading the whole thing.
I'm not wrong, you're simply confused. Historians time and time again, respected ones at that say the same thing I do and that's ignoring the fact I quoted Lincoln about Lincoln, not my contemporary about Lincoln. I'm pretty sure dude knew his own thoughts.
Lincoln doesn't matter - the South started the war, about slavery.
Nothing Lincoln did could possibly change that. No quote of his could be relevant. Saying so isn't a question of veracity. The man himself could be on-record insisting slavery had nothing to do with it, and he'd be just as wrong, because the South started the war, *about slavery.
You know this is correct. You say this is correct. But then you turn away and make excuses for someone saying the complete opposite of that objective fact.
When this bigot begins "The Civil War wasn't about slavery until the Union started losing," that's lost-cause bullshit, and your defense of it is inexcusable. This is bog-standard Leeaboo nonsense that you're running interference for. 'Surely people would have stopped Lincoln's unpopular war' might as well spell out "Northern Aggression" if you fold the page in half.
I'm sorry, hold on.
I almost missed that you slipped into outright Confederate propaganda.
"It was about trade played out through slavery?" Fuck right off with that, the war was about SLAVERY. In itself, for its own sake. Not because of bloodless lies like blaming "trade." The bigotry of white supremacy was foundational! These bastards did not just want convenient free labor - they were fundamentally opposed to black people being treated as human. Quite a fucking lot of them asserted that black people, born anywhere, could never be American citizens.
Your behavior in this thread is why demands for "civility" enable toxic abuse. You can keep saying dumb shit as eruditely as possible, and everyone else has to dance around beginning a detailed condemnation with the barest hint of personal directed frustration.
Get out.
“It was about trade played out through slavery?” Fuck right off with that, the war was about SLAVERY. In itself, for its own sake.
That's just objectively wrong, dude. You need to read a history book, and not one of the 4th grade ones that always say the good guys defeated the bad guys. Nuance is a thing.
And yes, it is a thing that CAN be used to shield bigoted ideas, but that's not what the person you responded to is doing. They're just trying to correct you.
Our new government['s]...foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
The Cornerstone Speech is crystal fucking clear.
Take your own advice, tertiary bait.
You really think they would have fought a war and died by the tens of thousands just because they like slavery so dang much? Because they're just that evil? They could be racist without owning slaves. Hell, they ended up doing that, for a hundred years after the Civil War. Hell, the North did that before the Civil War. Much of the North was very racist at the time, though that was in the process of changing.
The South fought to protect their slaves because their economy was built on slaves.
AND they were racist fucks.
Both can be correct.
Yes, I think the traitors who started a war to maintain slavery are evil.
Why is that a question.
What the fuck.
These people screamed at the top of their lungs that low-key 1850s racism wasn't nearly racist enough. That any black man being a citizen was a betrayal of the entire national experiment. And for some reason you're searching for excuses to say it was rational economic incentives.
Bigotry is bad... mmkay? Bigots themselves don't have to think they're evil, and twirl their moustaches, to be really fucking evil. Obvious example, Nazis. Tell me the holocaust was really about land rights and I'll tell you where to shove it.