- 04 Apr 2019 15:58
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The Southerners didn’t need to, all they had to do was accept the growing “scientific” consensus of their day, and for the next three generations. It would be one of the major bases of the Progressive movement to come, after all—people tend to blame President Wilson’s blatant racism on him being a Southerner, where with his background it could just as easily be explained by his Progressivism. I can’t remember which Chesterton made the claim that Lincoln was actually the Conservative on the question and that if the slavery crisis had been pushed back another generation there would have been no Civil War due to people’s general acceptance of the Southern position on race, but he could have well been right.
Potemkin wrote:The Southern secessionists claimed that their racism was objective and rational. Did they feel the need to demonstrate that by conducting proper scientific enquiries into the matter? Of course not. Lol.
The Southerners didn’t need to, all they had to do was accept the growing “scientific” consensus of their day, and for the next three generations. It would be one of the major bases of the Progressive movement to come, after all—people tend to blame President Wilson’s blatant racism on him being a Southerner, where with his background it could just as easily be explained by his Progressivism. I can’t remember which Chesterton made the claim that Lincoln was actually the Conservative on the question and that if the slavery crisis had been pushed back another generation there would have been no Civil War due to people’s general acceptance of the Southern position on race, but he could have well been right.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke