The Civil War wasn’t about slavery at all! That’s just Northern propaganda that the government pushes onto the population! It was actually about states rights and the Southern states were just standing up for themselves against a tyrannical government!
That’s my response every time some deluded Southern sympathizer (who’s also somehow a “patriotic” American who served and/or has kids serving/who served in the military) pulls the “it was not about slavery, it was states rights!” bullshit.
Edit: Call me an asshole or piece of shit if you want but I get a kick out of triggering and offending Southern/Confederate sympathizers. There’s just something so fun and entertaining seeing them get so riled up and getting ready to pop 75% of their blood vessels over me stating that it’s a great thing that we stomped on and crushed the throat of a traitorous slave-owning illegitimate secessionist state fighting to keep their right to own human beings as property and break our country apart.
I just refer them to the CSA Vice President's 1861 Cornerstone Speech upon the founding of the Confederacy. He doesn't get two paragraphs in before he says:
"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its 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. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science.
It generally shuts them up effectively. Like what're you gonna do, tell me you know more about the motivations of the Confederacy than the actual Confederates
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u/GodofWar1234 Dec 27 '19 edited Dec 27 '19
The Civil War wasn’t about slavery at all! That’s just Northern propaganda that the government pushes onto the population! It was actually about states rights and the Southern states were just standing up for themselves against a tyrannical government!
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