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We are talking about the Civil War.
And you're reacting as if it just happened.
We're like 4 steps removed from the person who even said the quote in OP.
You can chill, you're not about to fight off a horde of Copperheads. This is a left-leaning internet forum. There are no Klansmen here. You're not on a crusade. Chill the fuck out. We are on the internet.
Being frothing at the mouth outraged because something happened a hundred and fifty years ago is not healthy. It's a fixation.
No, troll, I'm using it as shorthand for how fucked-up the society we're discussing was, around the time we're discussing.
It is part of a direct response to a question you asked - a question you asked as smugly as possible. Like you cannot imagine systemic violence and outright war over ideology alone, and that makes me ignorant.
We're discussing how people are lying about the war. Misleading defenses of outright lies are still basically just lies. That's why lying racists themselves will make exactly the same defenses, when pressed. They are not married to the original lies. All they care about is finding some excuse to minimize the horrific evil that you have scoffed at.
We're still directly talking about the civil war... as proven by your immediate follow-up comment, condescending like I missed the exact details I've been addressing the whole time.
All vitriol in this exchange has been about your shitty behavior. Including this: you treated contemporary reference to the south's cultural stereotypes, by name, as a sign of mental illness. Fuck right off if you think any properly enforced leftist space would tolerate that shit.
It's just exhausting how you keep saying this. No, we're not. We're trying to discuss historical facts and the glossing over of them, but you keep trying to pivot the discussion to a "racism bad, yes or no?" conversation.
Nuance is not racism. Last time I'll say it.
Declaring "the civil war wasn't about slavery," verbatim, in any context, is not nuance - it is a lie. It is an indefensible oversimplification at best, and racist garbage which you have acknowledged as racist garbage at worst.
The thread is about some asshole telling this and other lies. It is that worst-case racist garbage.
The conversation you barged into involves some dingus who was trying to eke technicalities about those lies, as if anyone involved is unfamiliar with the premise being viciously misrepresented through those lies.
Your contribution has been to escalate and deny and make this personal, while declaring that you're only carrying a torch for nuuuaaance, whilst struggling with dead simple context and being insufferably smug about how badly you missed it.
Fuck off and good riddance.
It's hard not to be insufferably smug when talking with someone who disagrees with the idea of knowledge as a concept.
'Why you hate knowledge?,' asks bad troll.
How's blocking work on lemmy?
Poorly, I think.