@JDVance Yeah, you guys did get all wrapped up in zero sum thinking. That, by ensuring marginalized groups are given equal opportunity, something was being taken away from powerful white males. Glad you agree this was an illogical and wrong way to think.
@MattBlackledge5 @Sakranarasimha2@XVanFleet@SenTimKaine The thing is, that was about tribal warfare. Europeans went and made it about race. They justified slavery by saying Africans were more primitive and lesser than whites. Which is more despicable. To those tribes it was spoils of war.
@MattBlackledge5 @XVanFleet@SenTimKaine I am right. And Lee was wrong to fight for an evil cause. It doesn’t matter that his reasoning was loyalty to Virginia. An honorable man would have fought against the institution of slavery no matter what. And you defending his choice makes you awful
@Sakranarasimha2 @MattBlackledge5 @XVanFleet@SenTimKaine Nobody is destroying history. There are literally hundreds of thousands of pages dedicated to the truth of the Civil War. Which is that Lee fought for the cause of slavery. Which is despicable. It’s white bigots that are trying to rewrite history.
@LarrymillerIA@XVanFleet@SenTimKaine I didn’t say they tried to overthrow the government, I said they led a violent rebellion against it. So that they could keep their slaves. Regardless of the constitutionality, that’s just plain evil.
@adamkjohnston They deserve to be disparaged for their opinions on Lee. And there are plenty of aspects of American history to be embarrassed about. Native genocide and the legality of owning human beings among them. That’s been the truth forever, not a new narrative.
@Fatidiot10@xphantomy2kx@groypocalypse@RealJarTaylor Everyone understood the war was about slavery. That’s why the secession documents refer to slaveholding states and non-slave states. Emancipation was inevitable and the South had the world’s biggest hissy fit over that fact.
@supreme_ld You have the insane brain injury, stupid. There were a lot of abolitionists around in the 18th & 19th centuries that understood how atrocious slavery was. Many founding fathers even wanted slavery abolished. Your version of history is wrong.
@ModernCSA@losmehn@SenTimKaine It was an evil law and real patriots recognized that. It deserved to be ignored. And so you’re now acknowledging slavery was the main issue. Baby steps, I guess.
@MattWalshBlog Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, Cesar Chavez, Harvey Milk… The list goes on
and includes regular people who committed simple acts. True heroes who fought for liberty and justice. That’s what America is all about. Not murderers.
@briannalyman2 It’s one thing to morally imperfect. It’s another to be responsible for the death of thousands of Americans while fighting for the cause of slavery. No matter what he did after the war, his actions as leader of the rebel army are unforgivable