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I'm currently rereading "The Killer Angels," an excellent novel about the battle of Gettysburg. At one point one of the European observers with the Confederates makes the observation that the war is about slavery and gets vehemently rebutted by come of the Confederate officers. The fact that 4 Union states that remained in the Union--Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky--were slave states makes for an easy opening to a thread. If the Civil War really was about slavery, why did slave states stay in the Union? Of course this was too much for people who've been trained not to think, reason, or question what they're told so the thread is largely monkey-poop throwing. And, like I said, since they've got nothing, they'll just pick anything that they do have and make it out like it's some kind of insult.
The best part is when Ankles pops in to say "there was only one slave owner in my family, from North Carolina, and he actually was the only one in my family to fight for the Union," like that somehow was a mic drop when it actually supports the point I was making if it does anything.
It's very sad, how many people with advanced degrees have mush for brains these days. Back when they were talking about putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 I had a PhD tell me it was because Andrew Jackson owned slaves. I'm like "So? Washington owned slaves. Hamilton owned slaves. Jefferson owned slaves. Grant owned slaves. They're all on money," and he was stumped. Someone that was a dropout had to come along and point out it was maybe because Jackson killed a shit-ton of Indians. I knew that, but I'm not going to think for people adults who should be able to and are allegedly educated. It's a pointless endeavor, don't you agree? :marathon:
