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I often get in arguments with fags who always talk shit about confederate soldiers calling them traitors and pushing for all confederate monuments to be torn down. They justify this with the tired old argument of "but the confederates fought to keep muh precious niggers enslaved, therefore they deserve to be mocked and reviled because slavery bad." I had heard before that the civil war was over state's rights to determine their own destiny instead of being beholden to the federal government in D.C. and that slavery was the least of the cause. What are good counter arguments to these nigger loving confederacy haters ? Any educational links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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marvinthehaggler on scored.co
7 months ago 7 points (+0 / -0 / +7Score on mirror ) 1 child
It seems to me that the “Civil War” was really fought over economics (the South was tired of the North telling them what to do), State’s Rights (10th Amendment, etc.), and perhaps most importantly over the system(s) that would be deployed in the new States in the West. Were the new States coming online in the USA to adopt a system of governing and an economic approach similar to the Southern States, the North would lose its control over the Federal Government. The North obviously did not want that. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott Decision both went the wrong way, for the North. It seems to me that the North panicked and started the war with the Fort Sumpter False Flag Attack.

One of the most hotly contested territories in the Civil War, for example, was Missouri. That’s no accident. That was about the cultural and systems differences of North v South, who would control shipping in the Mississippi River, and who would control the access to the West, etc.
Wuwei on scored.co
7 months ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror ) 1 child
Yes, economics. I forget all the details but, the South was selling it's cotton to England but the North needed it to support their factory economy. The South had stripped the fertility from their farm land so they needed to expand into the new states. The North didn't want that bc it would give the South disproportionate power in Congress. England and France jumped in for economic reasons as well
marvinthehaggler on scored.co
7 months ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
Agreed.

There is also the issue of the railroad and how that was going to really play out, and all of this was affected by (((global finance))) as well.
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