▲ 50 ▼ liberals try to grasp material analysis challenge: impossible (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 hour ago by sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml to c/slop@hexbear.net 23 comments fedilink hide all child comments https://lemmy.world/post/51521475 Stupidest shit I seen all day lmao
[–] HoiPolloi@hexbear.net 28 points 48 minutes ago (3 children) Crushing the Confederacy was the one time the Untied States was progressive. Of course the libs of the era made sure that slavers got away scot free and that black people were still oppressed afterwards. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] juice_@hexbear.net 23 points 38 minutes ago It was as Frederick Douglass said in Boston in 1865, that the Civil War was begun "in the interests of slavery on both sides. The South was fighting to take slavery out of the Union, and the North fighting to keep it in the Union; the South fighting to get it beyond the limits of the United States Constitution, and the North fighting for the old guarantees;-both despising the Negro, both insulting the Negro. -- Black Reconstruction in America permalink fedilink source parent [–] jack@hexbear.net 2 points 9 minutes ago No, the US was also progressive from roughly 1930-1945, and not just because of the New Deal. It was also because of genuinely anti-imperialist foreign policy in Latin America. permalink fedilink source parent [–] skunk@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 minutes ago Bleak racismThe north got fucking terrified because of Haiti and the common sentiment at the time was that black people couldn't compete with white people in the free market and would thus die out on their own. When that didn't happen abe lincoln himself was looking into ways to deport them to africa, but his general said black people would procreate faster than they could deport and so they just started burning villages and destroying everything black people built after the civil war instead. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] juice_@hexbear.net 23 points 38 minutes ago It was as Frederick Douglass said in Boston in 1865, that the Civil War was begun "in the interests of slavery on both sides. The South was fighting to take slavery out of the Union, and the North fighting to keep it in the Union; the South fighting to get it beyond the limits of the United States Constitution, and the North fighting for the old guarantees;-both despising the Negro, both insulting the Negro. -- Black Reconstruction in America permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jack@hexbear.net 2 points 9 minutes ago No, the US was also progressive from roughly 1930-1945, and not just because of the New Deal. It was also because of genuinely anti-imperialist foreign policy in Latin America. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] skunk@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 minutes ago Bleak racismThe north got fucking terrified because of Haiti and the common sentiment at the time was that black people couldn't compete with white people in the free market and would thus die out on their own. When that didn't happen abe lincoln himself was looking into ways to deport them to africa, but his general said black people would procreate faster than they could deport and so they just started burning villages and destroying everything black people built after the civil war instead. permalink fedilink source parent
