• jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    A few years ago one of my conservative neighbors tried to drop the line on me that the Civil War wasn’t about slavery. I opened up the South Carolina Articles of Succession and read it out loud to him. To his credit, he accepted it and changed his mind.

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      1 year ago

      You have to really have some heavy cognitive dissonance to hear the words and not realize the lost cause myth is bullshit.