You’re rationalizing your desire to humiliate and assert dominance over people who you perceive as having an uncouth culture. Everyone knows that the South is not interested in segregation or slavery. Demanding that the flag be lowered has no upside, but it will agitate a lot of Southerners. This is how the Civil War…

The Emancipation Proclamation seems symbolic. It’s only regarded as a major shift, now that Civil Rights has changed everything. Prior to Civil Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation was classified as a paper tiger that accomplished nothing, thus, Civil Rights was necessary.

Please do look at the end. Words on paper changed. The South didn’t, and it wouldn’t change, until the Supreme Allied Commander realized that the farce of segregation and discrimination were threatening our national security and thwarting our capacity for common defense.

You’ve missed some of the most important lessons of history. There is no appreciable difference between slaves and serfs. America is not going to pulverize 600,000 men in a meat grinder for 5 years to belabor the point. Societies will slaughter one another for cultural dominance and governmental sovereignty. It is an…

I’m sure you think Israel and Palestine are fighting over religion as well.

You have no education, no self-awareness and no shame.

You can read. That’s a good start. Now you can read about the antebellum US to understand the context.

Just get an education. The widely held belief that slavery was the cause of the Civil War is for the convenience of students who lack the capacity to understand the conflict. The Civil War is used as a legend to teach the importance of human rights. Unfortunately, the legend isn’t supported by fact, and it prevents…

You’re bad at analogies and history. Almost nothing changed after the Civil War. Slaves were reclassified as tenant farmers (indentured servants). They didn’t own anything. They were intimidated from voting. They were segregated from society and excluded from education. The hardcore racist minority in the South traded…

So the North made it illegal to throw people off of a 10 story building. After the murderer was brought to justice, people were thrown off of 9-story buildings and the crime was called manslaughter.

You need to explain why someone would go to war over something they already have.

You’ve proven that slavery motivates political bombast and grandstanding. Furthermore, why would the South go to war over slavery, something they already have?

You’d have us believe that millions of people broke away from the US over slavery, though a tiny minority of the population were actually slave-owners? I’m sure we’re going to have another war over voter registration laws, right?

You misunderstand the nature of revisionism. No one in the South can pretend the Confederacy didn’t have slaves or that certain economic parties weren’t interested in forced agricultural labor. However, the North can pretend that they were all radical abolitionists who were freedom fighting for human rights. In so…

Cultural revisionism is dangerous, and it leads to bigger problems. The Civil War as not fought over race relations. It was fought over political and cultural schisms that created governmental mistrust. The issue of slavery was one of many issues. If you have any doubts about the relative unimportance of slavery, just…

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Thanks to the nation of Jalopnia for awarding me with the COTD. I’m currently updating my LinkedIn to reflect this once-in-a-lifetime achievement. I promise not to let the power go to my head, when my employer announes me as chairman of the board in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal.

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