tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532871.post4746231378229760597..comments2024-03-13T13:29:33.800-05:00Comments on SocraticGadfly: Southern Civil War lies continueUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532871.post-80742677557858818532011-07-02T01:08:50.377-05:002011-07-02T01:08:50.377-05:00Per Richard Feynman, what you've posted is so ...Per Richard Feynman, what you've posted is so far off that "it's not even wrong."<br /><br />Not only is it all refutable, it's all been refuted before. So, knowing that you wouldn't accept that anyway, I shan't waste any time on you.Gadflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13075757287807731373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532871.post-43646080567972858462011-07-01T13:55:13.370-05:002011-07-01T13:55:13.370-05:00It is aweful funny that the "winners" te...It is aweful funny that the "winners" tend to write the history here and now that we are on the other side of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments along with reconstruction, radical reconstruction and 145 yrs since the end of the war its easy to pass judgements.<br />But I must encourage you all to read and read well, don't be ready to demonize an entire population you could not dare understand in this present time...<br /><br />Facts are these...<br />Slavery was the main issue that the south chose to seceed from the union but it was a lot more complicated than just that... years of tariffs placed on the south by the north, the arguement between states rights to govern themselves and the federal government stepping in...<br /><br />The north chose aggression to force the union to stay together...<br /><br />The anti slavery movement in the north was not a matter of policy until passage of the emancipation proclomation and finally the end of the war...<br /><br />Once lincoln was killed, radical republicans in congress replaced local governments with northern ones in the south...<br />Laws were passed in congress that punished white people in the south by taking away wealth and land from them and giving it to blacks... blacks were reimbursed more than whites for military service following the war and this built a lot of resentment and tension between the races in the south... more than already existed...<br /><br />The north used the south as the great racial experiment and our countries people have paid for it for generations... Radical reconstruction lead to Jim Crow laws in the south as those who fought for the south were forced to switch roles with the blacks they once enslaved... Confederates lost property while the blacks were given it... they lost their right to vote as blacks were given it...<br /><br />The racial tensions in this country are owed to the federal governments experiments in the south... their absolute need to punish the states that seceeded from the union...<br /><br />The civil war freed an entire race of people in the south, but it enslaved an entire country under federal rule...<br /><br />These sir are the facts for which you cannot dispute if you do the research... our modern version of the war between the states is one that is "politically correct, and dumbed down for modern consumption...<br />It's easier to condemn the Confederacy and the people in the south than it would be to realize the entire country had been partaking in the guilt for a long long time...Smoofyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07800450201911511755noreply@blogger.com