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In reply to the discussion: Yes, white men are being oppressed. [View all]Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Yet here you are again. Guess you had to eat those words.
The Government had something to do with the civil war. But who made up the Government? Almost all white people. They went to war to stop slavery. The Government also stopped slavery in new states entering the Union. Who made up the Government back then? Mostly white people. So much for your screaming irrational argument.
"It was just the good-heartedness of the average white person that lead to the Civil War?"
Well let's see if you're intelligent enough to answer that. It was either the good heartedness of white people up North that goaded the South to try to secede, or it was selfishness. What would that selfishness be? Oh, I know... because whites up north stood to lose economically if slavery continued. Which totally blows your "whites as a whole benefited from slavery" argument right out of the water.
Oh don't you worry about coming back. You're too humiliated to do that. Maybe you can call for help from one of your imaginary 2/3'ers here to explain how a civil war could be fought when only a handful of whites opposed slavery. Maybe you can get your make-believe "2/3 majority" to explain how international slave trades were BANNED in 1807, and how the Republican Party gained power by its opposition to slavery, if there weren't a TON of white people who opposed slavery.
Yeah, any of you imaginary 2/3'ers out there want to help Number23 here explain his/her crackpot theory that there weren't a ton of whites involved in the abolitionist movement?