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re: Do you think the Civil War was started over slavery?
Posted on 2/14/15 at 12:22 pm to PikeBishop
Posted on 2/14/15 at 12:22 pm to PikeBishop
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So we're 8 pages into this topic with no consensus in sight. One faction cites primary sources to support the idea that the slavery issue was the central cause of the war. Things like speeches, articles of secession, even the Confederate constitution which guaranteed slavery.
Another group gravitates towards a broader economic conflict theory in which an aggressive, capitalist, imperialist North forces war on a semi-feudal agrarian South, which only wants to be left alone. It's basically the Marxist interpretation of the war.
Odd that only we Southerners still go at it about this subject. I don't think Northerners are much interested in the war.
.... well, ummmm, they won. They got their way. Duh.
That doesn't mean it's over. We're allowed to be pissed about it for as many generations as we want until we are proven right and vindicated. We're allowed to hold-onto our anger and righteous indignation all the way to the grave and pass it to our offspring in the process ... that is our right as Southerners. And, btw, it's the best way to be.
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Posted on 2/14/15 at 12:24 pm to scrooster
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We're allowed to be pissed about it for as many generations as we want until we are proven right and vindicated. We're allowed to hold-onto our anger and righteous indignation all the way to the grave and pass it to our offspring in the process ... that is our right as Southerners. And, btw, it's the best way to be
This explains so much of your anger on the generational racism thread.
White power bitch.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 12:26 pm to scrooster
I, too, think "the best way to be" involves carefully cultivating generations of anger over the motives of people who died over a century ago.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 12:39 pm to scrooster
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That doesn't mean it's over. We're allowed to be pissed about it for as many generations as we want until we are proven right and vindicated. We're allowed to hold-onto our anger and righteous indignation all the way to the grave and pass it to our offspring in the process ... that is our right as Southerners. And, btw, it's the best way to be.
What the frick.
Posted on 2/14/15 at 12:59 pm to scrooster
I don't think the fact that the North won the war explains its comparative lack of interest in the war, relative to Southerners. I mean, the Allies won WWII, but there is still a steady stream of books, films and references to it throughout our country. We won it and can't get enough of it.
Northerners I've met generally only have a grade school knowledge of the war. They know they won, Lincoln was president and then assassinated, and resulted in emancipation. That's about it for most. They're not chiming in on this war on Big 10 websites. It's like the War of 1812 to most of them. Remote and just not that interesting.
Northerners I've met generally only have a grade school knowledge of the war. They know they won, Lincoln was president and then assassinated, and resulted in emancipation. That's about it for most. They're not chiming in on this war on Big 10 websites. It's like the War of 1812 to most of them. Remote and just not that interesting.
This post was edited on 2/14/15 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 2/14/15 at 4:32 pm to scrooster
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That doesn't mean it's over. We're allowed to be pissed about it for as many generations as we want until we are proven right and vindicated. We're allowed to hold-onto our anger and righteous indignation all the way to the grave and pass it to our offspring in the process ... that is our right as Southerners. And, btw, it's the best way to be.
I don't even know where to begin.
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