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re: How do you feel about Mississippi's "Confederate Heritage Month"?
Posted on 4/8/20 at 10:45 am to Ace Midnight
Posted on 4/8/20 at 10:45 am to Ace Midnight
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Well, if by "overblown", you mean "accurate", then you're correct.
In Kentucky, for example, slavery did not become technically illegal until December 1865. Lincoln decreed it illegal in the South in 1863, so when areas were occupied by the Union Army, those slaves were typically "freed" (although many were pressed into civilian service for the Union or enlisted).
I'm not a child - slavery was the key catalyst for secession and the conflict. But, it wasn't the only reason. And most confederate privates didn't own any slaves at all.
Slavery was already becoming a bizarre, contradictory borderline cost-ineffective "luxury good" that one also had to have to make cotton production work. It is such a strange, unique time in history, I have no idea why we want to just shove huge sections of it to the side and pretend it didn't happen or wasn't extraordinarily complex in favor of "White people bad."
Kentucky wasn't a Northern state.
And celebrating the Confederacy doesn't exactly open up an intellectual discussion on things. Just a bunch of rednecks will drive around with Confederate flags hanging off their trucks. Otherwise you would call it Civil War Remembrance Month or something like that.
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Posted on 4/8/20 at 10:52 am to mmcgrath
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And celebrating the Confederacy doesn't exactly open up an intellectual discussion on things. Just a bunch of rednecks will drive around with Confederate flags hanging off their trucks. Otherwise you would call it Civil War Remembrance Month or something like that.
While your bias is clear here, you and I aren't terribly far apart on the crux of the issue.
The power to do something doesn't mean you should do it. That goes for removing statues and declaring "Confederate Heritage Month" - certainly it can be done. I doubt it should have been done.
But nuance and context are literally wasted on most Americans.
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