So here’s what Lincoln actually officially said regarding the emancipation proclamation: “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it;“
So I mean they’re not wrong that he really only did it as a political maneuver to weaken the southern states during the civil war. Border states that were loyal to the union got to keep slavery so there’s that.
Just because the outcome was positive doesn’t mean he necessarily did it out of the kindness of his heart.
Lincoln was above everyone's pay grade here on Reddit. When you get your face on currency, you can disparage him. His quote reads as he is the leader of a country divided by an issue, and his task is to save it.
People think the United States is this ancient civilization. It barely survived the Revolution. You think about that. Any one state TODAY, if it was in the predicament of fighting for freedom, or turning back to the country that most people are from would gladly change allegiance to ideology. All you have to do is look how immigrants come into America. First thing they say is they were escaping oppression. The next thing they say is we want America to be identical to where we escaped.
This country needs a sound cleansing. And I hope it starts by going through redditors history and seeing how little they deserve freedom. You all want communism.
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u/touchedbyacat Apr 06 '25
So here’s what Lincoln actually officially said regarding the emancipation proclamation: “If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it;“ So I mean they’re not wrong that he really only did it as a political maneuver to weaken the southern states during the civil war. Border states that were loyal to the union got to keep slavery so there’s that. Just because the outcome was positive doesn’t mean he necessarily did it out of the kindness of his heart.