I wonder how many kid's brain development is fucked because of this

amen

do conservatives in here think the civil war was not for slavery?

I was watching a video that said that I'm currious

Seems like it was a bit more complicated than just a yes/no

But my knowledge is definitely lacking

I'm not american but I thought here was a document from the confederacy talking about their right to own slaves or something

Spooner also asserted that it was not about abolition AFAIK, but about preserving the union

And he was a contemporary abolitionist

There was a lot of politicking that involved the northern states (with higher populations) creating federal laws that absolutely dicked over the southern states that created a lot of the tension to begin with. Abolition was certainly a catalyst, but there was no way you could raise an army of volunteers at that time for the sake of slaves

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states

Wasn't the south also hit harder by potential abolition than the north?

Yeah, their economy would have taken a large hit. The 3/5ths compromise was made to prevent the southern states from having more electoral power than the north, things like that

@Clive
Thank you, Mrs. THUNBERG...

Of course, all this is second-hand knowledge from Twitter Confederates, so give appropriate skepticism

50 years from now people might forget why we had ww2

The results of WW1?

We had to go rescue the Jews, obviously

Never forget, never again

Yeah everyone super loved the Jews before WW2

Man remember goose? I miss his animal loving nazi sympathizining

Eh

@Deleted User did you have the "pleasure" interacting with Goose? He was legit pro third Reich and pro theocracy

Was that Goose or Bodhi?

Goose I can't speak to bodhi specifically except that he was a super aryan

Like a supersayan nazi

Bodhi just hated Jews. And loved astrology, or something.

Dude's kind of retarded

Numerology?

Astrology?

Fuck if I know what he was going on about

Buncha pagan shit

nah I didn't clive

@Clive
We've forgotten why WWI started (no, it wasn't sinking the *Luisitania*), ¿why would we care why WWII started? 😔😔😔😔

there's over a hundred years of history behind the civil war

the civil war was a competition for dominance between the north and south taking place as one battleground on the planet where a larger historical war was taking place

But but but but but nazis

slaves were as much the reason for the civil war as the p-51d was the cause of ww2

both were just elements that had relevance in a larger conflict

saying slaves were the cause of the civil war is like saying jerusalem was the cause of ther crusades

if you want people to be ignorant of the centuries of history before and after a pivotal event, you lie to them about the entire scope of the era, and pin it one little scapegoat that can be used to obscure what actually happened