• silasmariner@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    I don’t know if ‘traitor’ is really the right term for separatists… I mean, it’s a hard spot, right? You’re betraying someone one way or another whichever side you choose

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      10 months ago

      I don’t have a lot of sympathy for the Southern Confederacy. They left the union because they wanted to expand the enslavement of people. That’s not just the leaders either, soldiers in the Confederacy made it crystal clear in their diaries and letters that they would rather die than be equal with a black person. They fired first, and they had no right to leave the union under any circumstances. They were traitors.

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      10 months ago

      Read any of the States’ Declarations of Secession, and you’ll see how the Confederacy betrayed humanity with that racist garbage. I would literally get banned if I copied and pasted what they say.