Robert E. Lee was a traitor, a brute and a slaver who wouldn't even trade black union soldiers taken prisoner for the lives of his own men because he saw black people as property to be owned.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/ …
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Yes, the overwhelming reason for the secession was the impending spectre of abolition, but the union absolutely was NOT fighting about slavery, so saying the war was about slavery is an outright lie. The war was about denying the ability to secede.
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OK. I wouldn't call it a lie, though. The reason they went to war was because they were not allowed to secede from the Union. Which still leaves slavery as the cause for wanting to secede in the first place.
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But slavery was exactly zero percent of the reason the Union was fighting. So saying the war was about slavery is either a deliberate lie, or foundational ignorance.
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I don’t want to speak for these guys, but they might disagree with that statement.pic.twitter.com/N5YfU94Wj3
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Yea but,then the truth destroys their talking point. These R the same people that claim that "the enslaved were treated well". It's a waste of time 2have any form of conversation about facts with these types.
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Respectful dialog is always a good thing. I haven’t seen anyone speaking in favor of slavery or agreeing with it. To me this is more an historical debate and an interesting topic. I don’t care about Lee or statues.
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Agreed on the dialog point, but the history of the Civil War has a huge influence on how Americans view race relations today. And that touches issues like civil rights, reparations, institutionalized racism, monuments...tons of stuff.
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It does. And no one is served by half-truths and oversimplifications.
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