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I think idiots run in pairs, though it is fun you jump straight to sock puppet. The rest sounds like a personal paranoia you're projecting onto me.
You literally implied I was a racist dude. Own up or shut up, at the very least don't cry about it.
"Some" like you.
You had all that time and you still can't point out where I said slavery is right, it the civil war didn't involve slavery. That nuance I was taking about is the fact the federal government didn't want to stop slavery they wanted to keep the union together Lincoln wrote about it at length some of which I've linked here.
Nope that's again you implying I'm a racist.
You clearly don't understand what I'm saying or you do and you're simply trying to play white knight.
No one said that, you're being paranoid. And again you're calling me a racist.
Personal attacks rather then contrary evidence, how unsurprising.
For it to be constructive criticism you need to understand the contention and look at it without bias which is something you're clearly wholely unable to do.
It’s not that you are attempting to explain the perspectives at play in the national tension leading up to the Civil War that I take issue with.
It is your assertion to my emphasis of the inhuman brutality of the racial enslavement of Black Americans. This is an essential reality one must contend with in order to have a honest a nuanced conversation around slavery and the Civil War.
To claim that this is somehow an idiotic thing to bring up while repping so hard for the claim that black Americans are property really is racist.
Yes, I said you’re racist, just as I did in my comment just prior to this. Of course, you don’t care about that, right? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have encouraged me multiple times to call you racist.
Choose to respond to the wrong person with insults and claim that bringing up the brutality of American slavery is idiotic all you want. Don’t be surprised when someone hits you back with mockery and derision. Be more thoughtful in what you’re responding to and who you’re responding to.
There’s really not a lot more I can say on this topic that I haven’t already brought up. I think I have made it abundantly clear what I take issue with and have sufficiently described why people have such a negative response to your arguments.
Could have fooled me.
What assertion is that exactly? Because I've been very specific that slavery was involved and is bad so I'm quite curious as to this mystery "assertion"
When did I claim it was idiotic exactly?
I didn't encourage you, you had already called me a racist at that point. How you're getting that I don't care is beyond me. You should maybe provide the whole quote because the rest of it directly refutes your bullshit.
I didn't do that, you're putting words in my mouth that simply aren't there which I imagine is why you refuse to quote me on any of these wildly insulting claims.
No you've been incredibly vague and straight up made up shit.