Here's a White guy about to stab a Black guy in the chest with an American Flag.

[NuclearDem]

149. Now you're all manner of confused.

Slavery was an issue in the lead up to the war--namely the issues of free state/slave state admission for new territories and the growing pressure from abolitionists in the North. Slavery made up an enormous part of the South's economy, and abolition would've meant kneecapping their economy.

They seceded, and the rest of the country went to war to force them back into the Union. Emancipation, despite whatever revisionist history books you've been reading have told you, was not the driving force behind the war. In fact, that's why the Emancipation Proclamation didn't apply to the slaveholding border states--Lincoln needed them, especially Maryland, to remain in the Union.

The war started in no small part due to tension between abolition and slaveholding, but the Union fought the war to reunify the country.

So, once again, you have no idea what you're talking about. You're taking the propaganda version of history and treating it like actual history to act like you're making some great point about hypocrisy.

Talk about the ironies of history.