RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 13, 2017 at 10:59 am
(August 13, 2017 at 10:53 am)Rahul Wrote: The majority of Confederate soldiers did not own slaves nor did they come from a family that owned slaves. Most of them fought because their home state was invaded. Studies of surviving Confederate soldier diaries find slavery rarely mentioned. Hatred toward invading "Yankees" was much more common.
This is part of the turning the Civil War into a comic book thing I was talking about. Some did fight for slavery, but most did not.
So basically celebrating hatred for their fellow countrymen? The country everyone is now a part of again? So much fucking better