You have said multiple times that the civil war was specifically about slavery. Which is exactly what the woman in the OP was denying. Why are you trying to argue semantics where none are required?
Trying to obfuscate the issue beyond that doesn’t really help. If slavery were removed from the equation the entire issue would be moot.
It’s not like we are talking about states rights to sell alcohol or do anything else.
It was specifically the rights of one state to force another state to enforce slavery. Again, if slavery were removed from the equation we would not be talking about the civil war as we know it. That doesn’t mean a civil war wouldn’t have happened for another reason, but it didn’t, and entertaining any other reality is just fiction.
It was specifically the rights of one state to force another state to enforce slavery
Exactly.
And the Northern states and the Feds were cool with maintaining the status quo of legal slavery until halfway thru the Civil War.
So if the South hadn’t gotten greedy and tried to force a strong federal government, slavery would have stayed legal. But they tried and both won and lost at the same time.
They got the strong federal government they asked for, it just wasn’t on their side.
You have said multiple times that the civil war was specifically about slavery. Which is exactly what the woman in the OP was denying. Why are you trying to argue semantics where none are required?
Trying to obfuscate the issue beyond that doesn’t really help. If slavery were removed from the equation the entire issue would be moot.
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Because details are important?
Why do you want to reduce an entire civil war down to one word in a way that makes both sides seem better than they were?
Literally the opposite of what’s happening here…
It’s not like we are talking about states rights to sell alcohol or do anything else.
It was specifically the rights of one state to force another state to enforce slavery. Again, if slavery were removed from the equation we would not be talking about the civil war as we know it. That doesn’t mean a civil war wouldn’t have happened for another reason, but it didn’t, and entertaining any other reality is just fiction.
Exactly.
And the Northern states and the Feds were cool with maintaining the status quo of legal slavery until halfway thru the Civil War.
So if the South hadn’t gotten greedy and tried to force a strong federal government, slavery would have stayed legal. But they tried and both won and lost at the same time.
They got the strong federal government they asked for, it just wasn’t on their side.
And in what way does that hypothetical make the American civil war NOT about slavery?