Potemkin wrote:But that is, in effect, exactly what happened. The Southern States seceded over the issue of slavery. That's a fact. We know it's a fact because they said so themselves. So yeah, poor whites fought and died in the Civil War just so a few rich men could own slaves. The irony is that they would do the same thing all over again just so a few rich men could own Cadillacs. They have learned nothing from experience.
One of the first acts of the Bolshevik government was to put in an order for a set of Rolls Royce's for the central committee members. But the southerners were not just fighting for a few rich mens lifestyle. they were fighting an existential war for their culture. The Southerners wisely recognised that abolishing slavery was just the thin end of the wedge. The Blacks and their radical supporters would never be content with mere legal freedom. They would want the right to vote, the right to be in government, it would just go on and on.
Strangely almost exactly the same thing happened in Britain 80 years later. In the late 1940's, like France and the Soviet Union we used German slave labour. Strangely no leftie says we should feel any shame for this travesty under the Atlee government. I guess enslaving White people is just OK. Slavery of Black people 200 years ago was pure evil, but slavery of white people a 100 years ago is just fine. This is why I say nothing a cultural Marxist says can be taken in good faith. They don't really care about slavery. Anyway this couldn't go on, so the argument was that we have to replace German slaves with free Black people, to do all the menial low paid jobs. But of course five minutes after they arrived, lefties started complaining that Black people were doing all the menial work. But hang on that's what they were brought here to do.
The Southerners didn't want equality. But anti-White racist cultural Marxsts talk like this was some sort of unparalleled evil. Please show me you oh so intelligent, un-ignorant, wise lefties, what society in 1860 wanted equality. Perhaps I'm just stupid, but every society that I've looked at in 1860, the Zulu, the Ashante, the Sokoto, the Kingdom of Congo, China, not one of them wanted equality. I haven't been able to find a single society in 1860 where the dominant group was remotely interested in equality. And don't try and tell me that the majority of Northerners wanted equality either. Slavery abolition was easy for them. If the deal had been that all the freed slaves would move to the North, I think you would have found that Northerners would have suddenly have found slavery not so unacceptable after all.
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