Slavery & the Civil War

midnight rain · 02-08-2012, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Engine

I think that's an unfair comparison because you're comparing two entirely different political landscapes. To answer your question, I feel that in a perfect world, a non-bigoted German would be allowed to fly that flag in honor of his grandfather.

Well you yourself say 'in a perfect world' which I think means that bias aside, it's not a terrible comparison. Keep in mind that not only did the Confederacy represent the belief that one race was superior to the other it also represents treason to our country. I guess you look at it as detaching the beliefs that inspired those actions from the picture, leaving just the heroic actions of the Confederacy?

If the laws had been upheld properly, Robert E. Lee and all the other generals of the CSA would have been executed for their crimes.

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Hero. I would have been an abolitionist personally.

And I would agree with you.

Engine · 02-08-2012, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Tuna

Well you yourself say 'in a perfect world' which I think means that bias aside, it's not a terrible comparison. Keep in mind that not only did the Confederacy represent the belief that one race was superior to the other it also represents treason to our country. I guess you look at it as detaching the beliefs that inspired those actions from the picture, leaving just the heroic actions of the Confederacy?

If the laws had been upheld properly, Robert E. Lee and all the other generals of the CSA would have been executed for their crimes.

I don't believe in capital punishment, I don't think the idea that the Confederacy was treasonous to the US matters much, and I know that US citizens in the free states were generally as racist as those in the slave states.