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The former South Carolina governor instead said it was a dispute over how ‘government was going to run.’

Nikki Haley declined to say that slavery was a cause of the Civil War on Wednesday evening, placing the blame, instead, on the role of government.

The former UN Ambassador and South Carolina governor, who has seen her star rise in the first-in-the-nation primary state, was appearing at a town hall event in Berlin, New Hampshire, when a voter asked her to identify the cause of the war.

“I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run,” she responded. “The freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do. What do you think the cause of the Civil War was or argument?”

The questioner, who could not be easily heard off camera, was apparently unpersuaded by Haley’s response. When she asked him what he believed the cause of the war was, he replied that he wasn’t running for president.

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[-] d00phy@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

I mean, it was about what people could and couldn’t do… Like buying, selling, & OWNING PEOPLE.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

”Government doesn’t need to tell you how to live your life. They don’t need to tell you what you can and can’t do. They don’t need to be a part of your life. They need to make sure that you have freedom. We need to have capitalism. We need to have economic freedom. We need to make sure that we do all things so that individuals have the liberties so that they can have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to do or be anything they want to be without government getting in the way.”

Except if you’re trans. Or any variety of LGBTQ. Or black. Or from another country (the shithole ones anyway), or if you’re a woman of child bearing years, or if you’re not Christian. In those fringe cases, the government needs to know things about your body, and they ABSOLUTELY can should and must tell you what to do. Unless you’re a capitalist with loads of money. Then I’m sure we can work something out.

[-] rrrurboatlibad 30 points 1 year ago

Seems like a softball question. Answer="Slavery". Boom, home run. More voters gained than lost

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Nah, she's a nutjob. Nobody is suddenly going to vote for her because she has one normal take, but her (southern) constituency will absolutely take offense if she says anything beyond "states rights" or some such bullshit.

[-] drmeanfeel@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Probably lost a few by not saying "I'm not familiar with the Civil War, perhaps you're referring to the War of Northern Aggression?"

[-] Caradoc879@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Even the democrats and liberals in the south seem to have a strange inability to accept that the civil war was about slavery. They all say it was about taxes and shit.

[-] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I had a history teacher in middle school call it "the war of northern aggression."

[-] d00phy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

She’s been positioning herself as a more sane version of Trump. She says slavery caused the war, and she has to change up her whole strategy because she would have lost any Trumpers considering her.

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 year ago

Nah that'd lose her base/voters

[-] chitak166@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

"No, you see, it was actually state's rights to own slaves."

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Haley knows the white Republicans do not want to hear that.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

The "reasonable" Republican alternative to Donald Trump, ladies and gents.

[-] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

When she asked him what he believed the cause of the war was, he replied that he wasn’t running for president.

Sounds like a man afraid of being lynched

[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I thought that was a big Chad energy answer lmao

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

He should run for Vice President

[-] Gruntyfish@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Oh sure, it was a dispute over how the government was going to run what exactly?

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The southern oligarchs attacked the US because they feared losing their "property". In fairness, you could say that it really was just incidental that the "property" was people. The oligarchs probably would have reacted just as murderously to any other threat to their wealth and power. So, be nice to Elon, everyone.

[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

What caste are you from Nimrata?

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

She is the epitome of those shitty white adjacent Asians.

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