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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Nov 2021

    Jeet Heer Retweeted New York Times Pitchbot

    This joke takes on an extra level of meaning when you realize that there's an entire school of history, once very influential, that argued along these lines.https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1461336057350434826 …

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    New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
    Were Abolitionists Too Woke? A new book by historian Niall Ferguson argues that if anti-slavery northerners had been less condescending towards slave-owning southerners, the Civil War might have been averted.
    11:04 AM - 18 Nov 2021
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      2. based ball‏ @dangerdaveball 18 Nov 2021
        Replying to @HeerJeet @delong

        NYT literally wrote that article in 1859.pic.twitter.com/ZXmJnumYzQ

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      3. based ball‏ @dangerdaveball 18 Nov 2021
        Replying to @dangerdaveball @HeerJeet

        pic.twitter.com/RpR4Wgc203

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      1. Gawain Kripke‏ @niawag1 18 Nov 2021
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        Gawain Kripke Retweeted Gawain Kripke

        It's not even a joke:https://twitter.com/niawag1/status/1460017815243665412?s=20 …

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        Gawain Kripke @niawag1
        This is so relevant to so many political and strategic debates right know. Read this, and then think about how and why John Brown was vilified and called crazy, not just by slavers, but by "abolitionists". https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/1459925272543776786 …
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      1. D.P. Adorpion, Esq.‏ @ChefGuevara_ 18 Nov 2021
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        it's amazing how quickly the right abandons its stance of hollering "appeasement" and falsely comparing absolutely everything to "Munich" as soon as the issue at stake is the humanity of black people

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      1. AbominableCheeseWhiz‏ @AbominableWhiz 18 Nov 2021
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        Ma*t ygl*sias would love to have been one of these guys imo

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      1. Ian Abstract‏ @IanAbstract 18 Nov 2021
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        It's always "the north was too mean :(" and never "why did all these confederate officer war criminals die old and comfortable in their plantations"

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      1. leave no one behind‏ @shewz 18 Nov 2021
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        This is what The Economist Mag use to argue.

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      2. Jerome Nicolas‏ @jeromenicolas76 18 Nov 2021
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        Jerome Nicolas Retweeted Jerome Nicolas

        Yup. Such centrists have always been with us. And they've always been a tiny minority of voters. Witness the election of 1860.https://twitter.com/jeromenicolas76/status/1450580706472566787 …

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        Jerome Nicolas @jeromenicolas76
        Thomas Friedman's next column: "Bring Back the Constitutional Union Party" https://twitter.com/profmusgrave/status/1450466160663728137 …
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      3. Jerome Nicolas‏ @jeromenicolas76 18 Nov 2021
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        Jerome Nicolas Retweeted Jerome Nicolas

        It's the same mentality playing out the same way.https://twitter.com/jeromenicolas76/status/1169060859403857920 …

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        Jerome Nicolas @jeromenicolas76
        Here's the thing centrists cannot grasp: The longer we postpone confronting any problem, the worse it gets, and the more radical the eventual fix must become. America discovered this dynamic by letting slavery fester. We are rediscovering it with the climate crisis.
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      1. David Tenner‏ @tenner_david 18 Nov 2021
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        Not all from conservative historians either! William Appleman Williams "perhaps the greatest, if unplanned, strategic triumph of the laissez-faire antislavery campaign was its making the slave system a hero in the eyes of southerners."https://books.google.com/books?id=P47_-XjbrIkC&pg=PA299 …

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