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[-] BigBrownDog@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

The civil war had nothing to do with slavery. It was about states rights...to do slavery.

[-] Vince@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Maybe they were like "You can do slavery, but only because we say you can, not because you have the right to"

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The states rights to force others to support their slavery

[-] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

One of my friends from the South said it best. "Some children learn about the Civil War, and some children learn about 'The War of Northern Aggression'."

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

If only we were more aggressive against those inbred aristocratic planter fucks we'd have solved a lot of problems we have today.

[-] therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

"The War That Had Nothing To Do With Slavery."

That's either next week's Onion storyline or a law that will be passing through congress the week after... it's difficult to tell these days.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I personally know it as "The war of reactionary butthurt southerners"

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