Hutch Starskey
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- Mar 24, 2015
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I think you're defending the commemoration of self avowed white supremacists. Why would you do such a thing?Great. So we should commemorate rebels and outlaws with memorials and statues?By defintion, the confederacy was not American.The left removes another statue of an American war hero, and they wonder why people don't like them.
So, you support the secession?Not in any way.So, you support the secession?
The confederate states believed they were no longer Americans. Their articles of seccession explained why. They claimed their white supremacy gave them the natural right to subjugate blacks and that their economic survival depended on the continued and future expansion of that subjugation.
Straight up racist and deplorable.
But the American view is that the secession was not legal, and thus did not actually happen, and thus the Confederacy was NOT an independent nation and thus the Southerns were not citizens of a foreign power fighting to defend their nation, but rebels and outlaws.
If you agree that their actions were legal and binding, then the Civil War, really was the War of Northern Aggression as defined by the Lost Causers.
Your position is siding with the slavery and against Lincoln and the Union in this historical context.
A distinction without a difference.
A big difference. THey thought their actions were legal and justified.
You seem to believe their actions were legal also, with your claim that they were not Americans.
If they were, as you seem to believe, citizens of a sovereign nation, the Confederacy, fighting to defend that nation from invasion, is a pretty normal reason for people to be, " commemorated ... with memorials and statues".
And the only question then is, what kind of people would come along 5 generations later, and want to tear down those statues.The type of people who have a moral objection to commemorating self avowed white supremacists.And the only question then is, what kind of people would come along 5 generations later, and want to tear down those statues.
Why in the fuck would you support doing so?
Dude. I'm not the one arguing that the secession was legal, that is you making that claim.
Do you think Lincoln's stated rational, ie "the more perfect union" was a sincere but mistaken belief, or do you think he "lied us into a war"?
Do you sympathize with their thinking?
No doubt you do.