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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
He also claims that "black family values" and "white family values" are very different things. Them blacks want all the white stuff for their very own. Or so he says.
My brother asked me why I'm FB friends with him. I said for the diversity. I can't have everyone agree with me -- that's boring as hell. He agreed and said that I have a very diverse set of friends and that he admired me for it. All in all, it made for a nice moment with my brother.
"Mosque? Vikings? CIVIL WAR WTF?!?"
I kinda want to hook him up with my one vaccine-conspiracy-theory-loving Rand-Paul-supporting school friend. But even moved away and turned... interesting, she's too much of a New Yorker at heart to put up with that shit.
Them blacks want all the white stuff for their very own.
Well sure, so do I. Only since I'm white I just call it "stuff."
Yeah. From the south over here, and the civil war? It was about slavery. You can talk around it all you want. States rights...to let people own other people. Economics...like the economic advantage you get when you have unpaid labor in the form of slaves. It's not damaging or insulting to my heritage to say so either.
I think the nuance is that slavery was not just about morality but about money. So the war was not necessarily because the great northern people wanted to rescue the poor enslaved black people, but also because of money.
Wait. I thought the Civil War was about Vikings?
States rights...to let people own other people. Economics...like the economic advantage you get when you have unpaid labor in the form of slaves. It's not damaging or insulting to my heritage to say so either.
Word.
I just quoted the SC Articles of Secession at him. "Slave" is mentioned a number of times.
Yeah, there were lots of issues going into the Civil War, but just about all of those issues were issues because of slavery.
Wait. I thought the Civil War was about Vikings?
Caused when Favre went from the Packers to the Vikings?
I think the nuance is that slavery was not just about morality but about money. So the war was not necessarily because the great northern people wanted to rescue the poor enslaved black people, but also because of money.
But even then, the money in question was mostly property in the form of slaves and agricultural products produced with slave labor. There's really no way to study the Civil War with any degree of intellectual honesty and say with a straight face that "it wasn't about slavery."
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