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Originally Posted by savannah
its not that i'm ignoring you,....ok,..well maybe i am ignoring you,.....
i never said we just start enslaveing people again,....i'm just sayin that the south gets a bad wrap because if it, that pisses me off,......i didnt do it,....and because i dont demonize it doesnt mean i'm an ignorant backwoods hillbilly
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I'm going to take this one even though a few people have already commented on it; I'll try not to make my post too redundant.
No one is jumping on you because you like the south. You're proud of where you come from, there's nothing wrong with that. But what IS wrong is the way you refuse to acknowledge the horror that slavery was. Not being apolagetic for it is one thing, but refusing to even acknowledge it is entirely different. In my humble opinion, yes, you ARE ignorant and backwards in your views on this issue. Tough words, but so is saying that slavery was merely an economic neccesity or a social class system.
Yes the south gets a bad wrap for it, and I believe that the main reason for this is that racism is to this day a more prominent issue in the southern states than it is in other areas of the US. The reason that the south continually gets a "bad wrap" for slavery is that there are still people there, like you apparently, who don't seem to understand why a widespread subjugation and trafficking of a single race is such a black mark in history.
This is not to say that the US is alone in this issue. Obviously there are MANY other civilizations and nations that have had similar histories, but as the topic of conversation is pre-war south, and it was you who first initiated it, this is the one that's up for debate.