Right: the north wasn't fighting about slavery, it was fighting secession.
But the south was seceding about slavery.
The south started the civil war, over slavery.
The confederacy only existed to preserve and expand slavery.
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Reality is a team sport, to some people.
And you gotta get that mid-sack seam ironed out. It's unbecoming.
Aww man, now cable news will have to fill six hours talking about what he would have said, instead of having eight talking heads ask one another 'can you believe he spread these lies we're putting onscreen?'
That second one is jawdropping, mostly for how familiar its tone seems in modern discourse, and for narrowly missing calling anyone "uppity."
Yeah why tell kids about puberty until they're done with it?
Applying logic to bigotry is a waste of time. It's just ingroup loyalty. The rest is mouth noises. They won't be clever noises, and they won't be consistent noises.
The south said 'it's about slavery' as often and as clearly as possible.
People saying 'it wasn't about slavery' are entirely wrong. Regardless of what Lincoln said. Pounding the table about what Lincon said is a misleading horseshit argument regardless of whether its claims are factual. It's not fucking relevant. The issue is: the south started a war, and they started that war over slavery.
You missed that CSA states weren't allowed to end slavery.
So if conservatives meant things when they say words - the civil war was coincidentally about slavery-having states seeking new slavery-having allies to continue doing slavery together, after flipping out when an anti-slavery party took the white house.
But it was totes mcgoats about states' rights. Except the right to end slavery.
"Your actions are morally wrong."
"Well that's just name-calling."
Incorrect.
Suspension of disbelief doesn't mean Harry Potter gets a lightsaber. There are rules.
Seceding / secession.