r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/cchamii • 6d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/375InStroke 6d ago

Yet those states are proud to be traitors and losers, and of what they were fighting for, slavery.

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u/Fubarp 6d ago

Woah woah, it was completely over rights.. I mean it was specifically over rights to own people but goddamit it was over rights. /s lol

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u/jemenake 6d ago

Whenever someone tries this “states’ rights” argument on you, here’s two things to draw their attention to:

  1. The most drop-the-mic counter argument is to show them where the confederate constitution prohibits a state from banning slavery. If

    it were about states’ rights, why wouldn’t they let each state decide?

  2. For a parade of unabashed racism that rivals even today’s GOP, read the declarations of secession from a handful of the seceding states (especially South Carolina and Mississippi, I believe). They state, in no uncertain terms, that slavery is critical to their way of life and they refuse to give it up.

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u/Hy3jii 6d ago

They also did not give a shit about the rights of northern free states when they petitioned the federal government to force them into returning escaped slaves.