• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It’s wild to me how persistent the lost cause mythology is considering the articles of succession from the traitor states are all out there in the open to be read by anyone at any time. I suppose that requires literacy and an understanding of what a primary source is. Easier to get some bullshit regurgitated into your mouth like a baby bird.

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      5 days ago

      Exactly. “it’s not so black and white” when the motivations behind it all were indeed, printed in black and white and very much about black and white people at that.

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        5 days ago

        That’s just like your opinion, man. Fake news, as thought by someone who hasn’t read any of the primary source documents publicly available.

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      5 days ago

      Tbh, its hard to ignore the bullshit getting regurgitated when you are still literally a child. I heard about the “war of northern aggression” in elementary school when we covered the civil war.

      They are literally grooming our children into this.

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      5 days ago

      Even in CA, we had a Texan middle school teacher who drilled into our heads like a mantra that the Civil War was about disagreements over States’ rights/tariffs/etc.

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        What a loser. I had a high school teacher from North Carolina that would jokingly call it the war of northern aggression, but she was smart enough to point out to us why that notion was bullshit before playing heel.