Over July 4th I went to visit family and argued with some chuds. The conversation turned to the Civil War and lost cause nonsense. Somebody had brought up the treatment of slaves and democracy in the context of Lincoln being a tyrant. I then had the brilliant idea that the freed slaves should have been allowed to vote on what to do with their former owners.

I kept bringing up that this would be the most democratic and American thing to do and that only the bad slave owners would be killed. I just kept repeating that all the good masters who treated their slaves well would have their slaves vote to keep things as they are. The strange thing is, the guys who were talking about how well southerners treated their slaves didn't say that the former slaves would have voted to keep things as they were. Even past all their ideology they realized that that just wasn't something that would happen.

I didn't bring up that I was inspired by Mao.

  • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    but of course if you bring up that many of the people back then were not OK with slavery, that many of the people not OK with slavery were slaves themselves and constantly resisting the system, escaping, etc.... their brains just shut off.

    Nope, sorry. There were no abolitionists back then. The very first abolitionist was John Brown in 1859 when he suddenly came up with the idea one day and promptly raided a federal armory. No one said slavery was bad before then. Also he was very rightfully stopped by noble member of the Southern Chivalry™ Robert E. Lee who was doing his duty as a member of the United States armed forces to put down this unlawful rebellion