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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1412832)8/2/2023 12:55:09 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1576246
 
Brumar,
But right is right and slavery was wrong.
Society back during Lincoln's administration was really good at reconciling the immorality of slavery with the continued existence thereof.

General Lee, for example, called it a "moral and political evil in any Country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages."

Robert E. Lee - Slavery, Racial Attitudes | Britannica

Yet he also saw slavery as a "necessary evil" in order to maintain social order. He was against the abolitionists and accused them of wanting to upend the social structures of the South.

I know, in your black-n-white view of the world, Lee's opinions shouldn't matter at all, and the only ones that should are those of the abolitionists.

But Lee's views are a perfect illustration of the paradox that allowed slavery to survive in America for generations, even as the rest of the world started getting rid of the institution.

And there are lessons in that paradox that apply today. But to learn them would take a measure of nuance that just isn't allowed by the "woke" revisionists like Nikole Hannah-Jones of The 1619 Project.

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