Things that made you laugh today (Political Version)

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Originally Posted by tyrant-201

Are you talking about the movement? The executive order? Or the constitutional amendment? Two out of three of those came about as punishment/maneuvering against the South. It was a way to hamstring the South. It was a good thing to do, morally and strategically, but let's not act like the war was fought for the purpose of freeing slaves. Your average northerner did not feel strongly about abolition

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Why do you believe that? Why do you refuse to believe it could have been because people thought slavery was immoral?

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Originally Posted by Back

Why do you believe that? Why do you refuse to believe it could have been because people thought slavery was immoral?

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Because I know the history of this subject pretty well.

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Originally Posted by Back

Why do you believe that? Why do you refuse to believe it could have been because people thought slavery was immoral?

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Why do you refuse to accept historical facts that are back by many quotations from people involved?

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Originally Posted by Gelston

The North went to war with the South to preserve the union. The South seceded from the North to preserve slavery. The average northerner gave 0 fucks about slavery.

Although to say that slavery was the sole reason for secession is a bit wrong. Was it at the root? Sure. The South felt it was being marginalized in the Senate and the House by having more free states than slave states, thereby decreasing the Southern elite's voice in the Governance of the nation.

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The anti-slavery movement was well documented so I think you are incorrect about people from the north giving zero fucks about slavery.

In fact it is absolutely absurd to even suggest that. It sounds like sore loser excuses from Southerners who lost.

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Originally Posted by Back

The anti-slavery movement was well documented so I think you are incorrect about people from the north giving zero fucks about slavery.

In fact it is absolutely absurd to even suggest that. It sounds like sore loser excuses from Southerners who lost.

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I said the AVERAGE person, not EVERY person. The Irish people fresh off the boat who were forced into a blue uniform and sent south sure as fuck didn't care about black slaves in the south.

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Originally Posted by Back

The anti-slavery movement was well documented so I think you are incorrect about people from the north giving zero fucks about slavery.

In fact it is absolutely absurd to even suggest that. It sounds like sore loser excuses from Southerners who lost.

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Not a Southerner, and my great great grandfather fought and died for the union. Try again

My ancestors were on both sides.

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Originally Posted by Back

Why do you believe that? Why do you refuse to believe it could have been because people thought slavery was immoral?

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Why do you refuse to believe documented facts? No matter how hard you try, you can't just will what you want your version of history to be like into existence. Not to mention you have a track record of being wrong like 99.89% of the time on most topics anyway.

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Originally Posted by Gelston

My ancestors were on both sides.

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My ancestors were still in Italy. I'm sure I owe reparations anyway for reasons that Backlash will hopefully entertain us with an explanation for.

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Originally Posted by Back

Why do you believe that? Why do you refuse to believe it could have been because people thought slavery was immoral?

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So we agree that slavery was an evil tool of convenience and abolishing slavery was the right thing to do? (just making sure we agree on this before moving forward)

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Originally Posted by Methais

Why do you refuse to believe documented facts? No matter how hard you try, you can't just will what you want your version of history to be like into existence. Not to mention you have a track record of being wrong like 99.89% of the time on most topics anyway.

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Which documented fact are you talking about?

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Originally Posted by Neveragain

So we agree that slavery was an evil tool of convenience and abolishing slavery was the right thing to do? (just making sure we agree on this before moving forward)

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Yes.