LOL! This is an amusing post about how every time a racist gets mad when talking about the Civil War you should just make up a name for it. Some of the ideas on the reddit thread include “The War of the South Getting It’s Ass Obliterated by Sherman”, “The War Where Southerners Decided They Would Rather Literally Die than Admit that Black People Were Fully Human”, “The War Where the South Talked Shit and Got Hit”, “The War Where A Gaggle Of Racist, Treasonous, Sissy Bitches Cried Because It Turns Out That People Are People And That Hurt Their Feelings So Bad Their Descendants Are Still Crying Like Little Bitchass Babies Over It”, etc. 🤣
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Wow. Those guys defending the Confederacy. That’s pretty fucking low.
“You mean when the union butchered thousands of fellow americans…”
Certainly not. The South SECEDED from the Union. The war was between Americans and the new, unAmerican territory in the South. The ones whose state Constitutions vigorously upheld the rights to Slavery.
“The government killed poor farmers for wanting” to continue keeping slaves, often in brutal conditions, sometimes using the Bible as justification despite even the Bible saying specifically that slaves should be treated decently. (Not to mention that the Bible’s idea of acceptable behavior comes from the Bronze Age or the Iron Age and civilization had progressed far beyond that point.)
Or that they keep claiming to be Christians and then quoting the Old Testament which quite literally has nothing to do with Christ?
Not disagreeing with you, but I do think it’s worth pointing out that the “poor farmers” never owned slaves to try and “continue keeping” because they were poor. Poor, southern farmers tended their own crops, often barely getting by economically in competition with the wealthy, human-trafficking, landowner neighbors.
Many that survived weren’t competing in the economy. They were private farmers, just trying to put food on the own tables. The ones who couldn’t feed themselves or compete at the local markets ended up working alongside the slaves on the human-trafficking farms. Those white farmers are where we get the phrase “redneck” from. They would be paid for their work, unlike slaves, but not enough to raise them above the absolute lowest depths of poverty that money could buy.
So the “poor white farmers” weren’t fughting to “continue keeping slaves.” They were fighting to continue being treated slightly better than the slaves.
Over 30% of families in Confederate states owned slaves. Those too poor to own slaves still borrowed and rented slaves to do their work. They all benefitted from slavery.
So, if they were more prosperous, they would have… what?
The US Government went to easy on the Confederacy. Those states should have been turned into territories with no representation in Congress, until such a time as they proved to be worthy of it. They should have had Northern Governors, US Military and a government in place to educate the populace and tamp down on the extreme racism of the time that was practiced in the South.
It should have taken more than a generation for a Southern State to fully become a member of the United States again.
Many of the problems we have today, could have been avoided.