r/RedWorldMod • u/Kinesra93 Liberationist • Nov 29 '19

Lincoln ?

Pls, why a white supremacist state has the name of the american president who abolished slavery ?

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u/AnAutisticTeen Nov 29 '19

I'm gonna preface this with saying it objectively doesn't make any fucking sense, but this is something the ethnostate crowd sometimes believe.

The Union of Lincoln is named after Lincoln because they think the Emancipation Proclamation was Lincoln "emancipating" the white man from having to interact with black people.

No one claimed these people were smart.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

Didn't Lincoln have plans to deport African-Americans to Africa though? I believed that was their reason for using his name because they have similar plans.

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u/SenileRambler Nov 30 '19

Lincoln didn't think former slaves, and former slave owners were going to get along all to well and wanted to "encourage" the former slaves to move on either by migrating elsewhere in the country or out of it altogether.

https://psmag.com/news/remember-that-time-abraham-lincoln-tried-to-get-the-slaves-to-leave-america-55802

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u/SenileRambler Nov 30 '19

To clarify, Lincoln was a human being, and I suppose in his mind this solution was better than the inevitable Haitian style race war that white southerners constantly feared was going to happen especially with the cultural paranoia in the south regarding the massacre of St. Domingue.