r/facepalm • u/Innej5 • Jul 11 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Mom needs to go back to school.

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u/Radiant-Importance-5 Jul 11 '24

The civil war was about many things.

Like slavery.

And states rights to allow slavery.

And the economic difference of utilizing slave labor.

And the moral question of allowing slavery.

And slavery.

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u/Wide-Quit-7104 Jul 12 '24

And they were mad at states in the north who did not enforce the Fugitive Slave Act

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u/Radiant-Importance-5 Jul 12 '24

Oh that’s right! I forgot about that one, that’s a good point too

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

Had me in the first half ngl.

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u/HopefulSuccotash Jul 13 '24

You also forget that there was a great deal of concern about future states and their rights to have slaves.

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u/ConflictAdvanced Jul 12 '24

Huh, so she was right then. It's not about slavery 😁

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u/weed_cutter Jul 12 '24

No, no it wasn't.

It was about the (obvious) economic benefits of slavery for the slave-owner.

Morality be damned.

States' rights? Who cares.

.... For the poors, it was about "keeping smelly browns out of schools" and associated racism largely fueled by aforementioned rich slave-owner elites.

In other words, the MAGA movement hasn't really changed, 150+ years later. (and yes the Confederacy became the GOP in the 1960s, then MAGA in the late 2010s).