• @bigFab
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    -22 months ago

    I don’t get the hate against the South, which lost the war. Some american have to explain it to me, cause if they won the war why still be mad about it?

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      72 months ago

      The South fought for the explicit purpose of preserving racial chattel slavery. That’s bad.

      They’ve been spreading myths to make themselves look better and justify racism against others ever since. That’s also bad.

      • @bigFab
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        42 months ago

        Thanks for the reasonable answer. I still don’t understand why I get downvotes. Some kind of taboo topic?

        • @PugJesusOPM
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          42 months ago

          Well, a big problem in the modern US, and one of the reasons Shermanposting exists, is because a lot of Americans with… unpleasant views… try to push the narrative that the South “wasn’t that bad” or was “just fighting for States’ rights” or “1 DIXIE BOY = 100 YANKEES” or “Slaves actually benefited from slavery”.

          The downvoters probably assumed you were one of them playing innocent instead of a genuine newcomer to the topic.