haha white nationalism can come from anywhere, unfortunately
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
sometimes I think the 13th Amendment wouldn't have passed if white northerners didn't hate southerners so much bc of the war
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Replying to @arthur_affect
i wonder sometimes about the period after the war. if reconstruction went all the way through what would the us look like now
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
Reconstruction gets a bad rap. A lot of people really tried but had the legs cut from under them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
I hate to say it but from a realpolitik POV Lincoln wanting "healing" so much was a mistake
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
white northerners only had a passion for racial justice while they still hated the South for the thousands killed in the war
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Replying to @arthur_affect
i agree-i think freeing the slaves was more about ending the war than being the morally right thing to do
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
white people becoming anti-racist temporarily when they're sitting in judgment of really awful other white people
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Replying to @arthur_affect
if they could have ended the war without ending slavery, they probably would have done that instead
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
that's what the movie Lincoln was about
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Lincoln himself became more anti slavery as the war slogged on
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
you compare his first inaugural with his second - the first is all conciliatory, the second is fire and brimstone
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