re: Confederate Flag vs. US Flag

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Giving you shite for your South Park awfulness

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I'm not awful. South Park's writing and direction the last two seasons was.

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slavery wouldn't have been threatened, the war wouldn't have happened.

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If you honestly believe the federal government wasn't salivating at the thought of consolidating power you're crazy.

They didn't start the major push about slavery and abolition and all of that until half way through the way when the support for the war was waining in the north and the South had the upper hand. They needed a cause to rally the troops and the people, they found it and stuck to it.

Sure, slavery and abolition played a part in the war, but states rights and federal power were the core reason for the war and the absolute most important outcomes for the winning side.

If equality and an end to slavery and humanitarian justice for all was the true reason for the war do you think the north would've allowed everything that happened between 1865 and 1965? They couldn't give two shits. Look at the actual history of what happened in the south following the war and what the north did about it.