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2/ Although it's important to note that the Union armies weren't staffed entirely by busy body proto-SJWs. Lincoln's fascist government enacted major drafts ("slavery is so bad that we need to make you our property and risk your life for political goals!"), which were >
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3/ wildly unpopular. Draft riots broke out in dozens of northern cities, and over 15% of the union army deserted, as they had no desire to (a) be enslaved by the federal government, (b) kill southerners, (c) be killed by southerners.
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Replying to @MorlockP
Interesting aside; the Oxford Dictonary is an off shoot of the Civil War. ‘The Madman and the Professor’ is the book. Really cool story.
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