Abraham Lincoln Knew Violence Must Be Addressed at the Root (jacobin.com)

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Abraham Lincoln is often invoked in calls for civility and reconciliation across the partisan divide. But Lincoln himself understood that such reconciliation was impossible in his own time until justice had been served and slavery abolished.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Reconciliation was only part of the equation. Every single Confederate traitor should have hanged from a noose. Every piece of pro-slavery propaganda should have been burned down. The lionization of Confederate generals and politicians should have been stopped. The romantization of the South during the Civil War should have been stamped out at its earliest signs. The racism used to justify the enslavement of black people and later to terrorize, disenfranchise, economically harm, and murder them should have been made illegal from the very start of Reconstruction.

All this evil slowly rotted away at the social fabric of this country until where we are now. We now have those who wish to racially purify this country through increasingly violent and less democratic means, those who wish to stop them but are paralyzed by the legal hurdles put in place by Confederate apologists, and the apathetic ones who are too tired and burned out to even know the world is burning around them.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It's a shame the had the power of the government behind him and this time that's the opposition.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

This the same Jacobin mag that simps for Russian imperialism over Ukraine?

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

Abraham Lincoln is often invoked in calls for civility and reconciliation

Really tho? That kinda gave me a chuckle.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

If you laughed, it's because you're not aware of Americ's history...

Is all you know about Lincoln from elementary school history classes?

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