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Posted on 1/16/17 at 1:16 pm to Sleeping Tiger
Posted on 1/16/17 at 1:16 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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The various truths about the Civil War are cornerstones for understanding the forces we're dealing with today -- but even in the south people have been engineered to think certain ways about the war. It's a shame.
It is, but in terms of Lee's legacy, it will be nearly impossible for the general population to separate him from the issue of slavery. His (and his state's) motivations are nearly irrelevant to most given the divisiveness of that single issue.
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Posted on 1/16/17 at 1:30 pm to Crowknowsbest
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It is, but in terms of Lee's legacy, it will be nearly impossible for the general population to separate him from the issue of slavery. His (and his state's) motivations are nearly irrelevant to most given the divisiveness of that single issue.
I'm not sure we're on the same page. Maybe we are. But yeah, definitely, there is zero chance this war and all that surrounds it will ever be properly understood in modern times.
Not going to have a wasted day on this topic, but I don't think the civil war had very much to do with slavery, I think it was used for PR purposes before, during, and after the war and I think there's a blindness to industrial slavery in the north and overall racism from the entire union. A lot more to say. Just not going to waste the time saying it.
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