re: Confederate Memorial Day Vaca Day

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southern heritage and pride


=/= the confederacy.

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While I'll agree with you on that, I don't agree with this.

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frick the confederacy.

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The Confederacy was fighting against a strong central government. Similar to what we have today that many want to rally around and in my opinion is the primary driving factor that elected Trump.

Now you and many more will want to say that the Civil War was fought over states' rights to own slaves which is correct, but there was a split coming anyways over the role of the central government and how large it was to be. Basically we were gonna fight sooner or later over something and it just happened to be states' rights to own slaves.

And you can be for honoring the Confederacy and those that fought for it while simultaneously acknowledging that slavery is morally wrong and not conducive to a strong and healthy society.