The Civil War was about slavery to the south but didn't become an issue for the North until 1863.

Almost every state declared it the reason for secession.

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The move to make it a moralizing war was realpolitik on Lincoln's part. Him along with many other abolitionists believed the blacks were inferior but simply disagreed with their enslavement.

muh states rights is meme revisionism to turn slavery into a euphemism that distracts from itself

ik ik,but I thought it would be fun to see a confederate black guy

I think it's dumb for a black person to support the Confederacy directly.

it's hilarious tho because most of the time he focuses more on the South's ideals outside of the main reason it existed,which was slavery

Lost Cause weeb right there

Yeah he avoided the issue of slavery almost entirely.

Focused mainly on how bad the Union was it seemed like.

the Confederate flag is no longer aa symbol of racism

change my mind

the confederate flag is retarded, change my mind

the confederate flag is shit, change my mind

The confederate flag looks cool as h*ck

It's disgusting

It isn't though

That's just your authoritarian speaking

The design is just horrid

wrong

And it was never the official flag of the confederacy even

Then it wan't the confederate flag

It was the battle flag of Northern Virginia or something

The real flag is better

Nice flag you got there

wrong one retard

looks like an autist with ms paint made it in 5 minutes

The actual Stars and Bars looked too similar to the Union flag so most of the military created their own battle flags.

And eventually the Stars and Bars was ignored in favor of the Virginia battle flag.

It definitely wasn't the only flag with that design though.

@εïз irma εïз My dad believes in the "muh state's rights" meme

And no matter what evidence I show him against it, he won't accept it as proof because it's either "on the internet, so someone made it up" or if it's in print, then "it's just revisionist propaganda"

Have you shown him the original documents detailing the reasons for secession?

I've tried to

But the only way I can show them to him is by finding it online, and my dad is one of those proto-boomer types that thinks anything found on the internet is a work of fabrication when it doesn't confirm what he thinks @εïз irma εïз

You have to kill him.

find the original documents in a museum

20 min until livestream debate

Some old encyclopedias may have the information or college libary