The Confederacy was About Slavery

Wonderful piece, edgar. Thanks.

He has to have the mind to compose it.

It was a compliment. It means "He sure can write."

That was an excellent find, EB, and du Bois' last lines say it all very succinctly:

I was going to put it on your new thread, but I couldn't find it.

I know. Many don't have the same knowledge or ability to compose anything close.

It's fine the way it is, EB. I started that thread because it seemed this thread was being ignored, and specifically, that people were going to babble on, overlooking the slavery issue as though those men were great Americans who were being slighted because they were on the losing side in a trivial cousins conflict. It seems this thread has been more or less resurrected, so the purpose is served.

Once again, that du Bois quote is a great find, Boss.

DuBoise gets overlooked far too often, these days.

No all confederates are bad dudes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho8DzaTjNIA

Yep, the Lost Cause and the whitewashing of Civil War history.

Not all Nazis or the KKK are bad dudes. They just kill innocent people.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/03/klansman-dies-1964-murders
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
I have visited both Auschwitz and Birkenau, and the Holocaust Museums in Washington DC and Jerusalem.
Japan also committed the Asian Holocaust. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

Some kind of reverse ad hominem argument.

Ad hominem usually goes, awful people follow this movement so the movement must be awful.

This argument goes, some good people were there so the Confederacy wasn't all bad.


Sorry, it's still an ad hominem argument. Your argument is bad, and you should feel bad.